The North Carolina legislature has charged the Saltwater Review Committee with making changes to the way the Tarheel State’s saltwater fisheries are managed, and nearly every fisherman plying coastal rivers, sounds, bays and beaches could feel the effects of these decisions for years to come. […]
Joe Albea, 57, remembers when Pamlico Sound was full of big croakers and gray trout, along with many other species. […]
To catch big wintertime speckled trout, try fishing after dark along jetty walls with MirrOlures. […]
Two numbers jump out of the North Carolina Division of Marine Fisheries’ 2010 report on the state of the Tarheel State’s saltwater fisheries. […]
The General Assembly’s Committee on Marine Fisheries tasked with recommending changes to the management of saltwater fisheries held its first meeting yesterday (Jan. 4), and listened to North Carolina Division of Marine Fisheries Director Louis Daniel III and N.C. Wildlife Resources Commission Executive Director Gordon Myers. […]
Anyone in the recreational or commercial fishing camps who believes the North Carolina General Assembly’s Saltwater Review Committee will be a rubber stamp for their view of saltwater resources management is probably mistaken, a co-chairman of the committee told North Carolina Sportsman. […]
It was evident from the start of the cold January morning at the public ramp next to the Harkers Island Bridge that Bryan Goodwin probably was an extraordinary saltwater fishing guide. […]
Besides avoiding porpoises in winter, red drum like shallow water — especially water over a dark muddy bottom — for two other reasons. […]
To most people, it’s a mystery why red drum, especially slot-size and just above-slot (18 to 27 inches long), mass into huge schools during the winter in inshore waters along the coast. […]
Biologists in South Carolina are coming to grips with the responsibility of regulating sheepshead in state waters, thanks to federal fisheries managers turning that task over to individual states. […]
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