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Herding Morehead City’s sheep
Try these tips when fishing around the Morehead City area, and you’ll catch your share of sheepshead. […]
Inshore Fishing
Inshore Fishing
Go slow in hot weather
Most fishermen equate hot weather with more-active fish, but that’s not necessarily so. According to guides Fred Bricketto and Tom Siwarski, you need to fish very slowly during the summer. […]
Inshore Fishing
Sheepshead – the convict fish
Sheepshead, Archosargus probatocephalus, are often called convict fish due to the vertical black bars on their sides. […]
Inshore Fishing
Release spawners
In North Carolina, speckled trout begin spawning in April and will continue through September. […]
Inshore Fishing
Full moon? Stay away!
For shrimp and small baitfish, summer conditions and famished speckled trout make the early and late parts of the day troublesome. […]
Inshore Fishing
Chasin’ tides
As long as it takes the moon 50 minutes longer than a 24-hour day to orbit the earth, tides will change every day, affecting the lower Cape Fear River and the rest of the world’s coastal corrals. […]
Inshore Fishing
An estuary built for trout
North Carolina’s coastal frontier is home to some of the most-productive ecosystems in the nation and the lower Cape Fear River is one of them. […]
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Ocracoke: End or Beginning?
On the highways that run south from Corolla, the village of Ocracoke is the end of the line on North Carolina’s Outer Banks. […]
Inshore Fishing
Rising tide best for flounder
Pamlico Sound stays slightly off-color, and when the tide is falling, it carries those waters out through Ocracoke Inlet. […]
Sheepshead
Best sheepshead baits
Most fishermen think of fiddler crabs as the top sheepshead bait, and they catch fish with them. Fiddler crabs are most often seen just above the water’s edge in salt and brackish estuaries. […]