Inshore Fishing Archives - Page 262 of 287

July 8, 2026

Saltwater Series: Wadmalaw / Bohicket

Rawling Pratt-Thomas grew up fishing the Wadmalaw/Bohicket area south of Charleston, but it wasn’t until he was several years into a career as a fishing guide that he realized what he had. […]

Guide Rob Beglin shows off two of the 40 or so redfish his party caught in the ICW behind Bulls Bay this past Thursday.

Wind blows, but redfish still bite

Dan Kibler

Guide Rob Beglin of Inshore Xtreme Guide Service had put three redfish in the boat this past Thursday morning, when in the span of five minutes, the ICW between Awendaw and McClellanville went from flat calm to rocked by 2-foot waves. […]

Over-slot red drum are available at the marsh island near Harkers Island if anglers can find warm water.

Finding warmer water key to catching reds, specks

Craig Holt

Red drum and speckled trout were about the only inshore saltwater species available near Harkers Island before a two-week-long blast of frigid arctic air and a snow-and-ice storm blasted across North Carolina. […]

This fine specked trout fell for a fly, a common fate in December.

Winter is fly-rod time

John Gribb

Winter weather can be blustery at times, but often the wind is dead calm, and those days are perfect for fly fishing. […]

Even during a recent cold snap, guide Jeff Wolfe is catching slot-size red drum at the bays north of Bald Head Island near the Cape Fear River mouth.

Reds, specks, stripers active in Cape Fear area

Craig Holt

With sub-freezing weather clinging to most of the state, fishing has been difficult for most areas — except the southeastern coast. […]

Penn Allegiance Inshore Rods

South Carolina Sportsman

The new PENN® Allegiance Inshore series of spinning and baitcast rods are designed specifically for shallow water species like tarpon, redfish, speckled trout and snook. […]

Tailing redfish offer fly anglers a unique opportunity to stalk and cast with crab, shrimp and mullet imitations.

Fly-fishing dreams

Jeff Burleson

Tailing reds offers fly anglers the perfect opportunity to send a hand-tied fly into the path of a stout redfish. […]

Anglers in North Carolina coastal waters will be allowed to keep fewer speckled trout, as well as restricted to only keeping those over 14 inches, beginning Tuesday (Nov. 30).

Speckled trout regs change Nov. 30 in coastal waters

Jerry Dilsaver

North Carolina fishermen will see their daily creel limit in coastal waters for speckled trout drop from 10 to six per day and the size restrictions increased as of Tuesday (Nov. 30), as the North Carolina Division of Marine Fisheries seeks to reduce the annual harvest of the popular saltwater fish and strengthen the population.

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Speckled trout readily feed at night, and they don’t have as much competition from bait stealers.

Night owls

Jeff Burleson

Trout and other predator fish feed heavily during the fall when water temperatures drop to the lower 60s. […]

MFC Schedules ‘Special’ Meeting on Speckled Trout and Menhaden

Jerry Dilsaver

A special “called” meeting of the N.C. Marine Fisheries Commission has been scheduled for Nov. 22 in Morehead City to revisit an agreement on the Spotted Sea Trout Fisheries Management Plan that apparently isn’t satisfactory to commercial fishermen. […]