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Top 3 tips for catching cold weather trout
Scale down your fishing line and lure sizes and you’ll catch more wintertime speckled trout. And don’t forget to change your fluorocarbon leader often. […]
Speckled Trout
Crappie/Bream
Catch multiple species with artificial lure/live bait combo
Technique works especially well in cold, clear water When Willis Trapp of Camden, S.C. told me he uses artificial lures in conjunction with live bait, I kind of cringed. I envisioned a Texas-rigged worm/live minnow […]
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N.C. angler catches and releases 10-pound speckled trout
After catching a 10.06-pound speckled trout, Tommy Williams of North Carolina took the lead in two different yearly trout tournaments, then released the fish alive. […]
Inshore Fishing
Pawleys Island specks stay active, biting in winter months
While the fall run typically peaks around Thanksgiving, anglers in Pawleys Island, S.C., get to keep picking at specks all winter. […]
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Speckled trout biting topwater lures
Speckled trout don’t usually bite topwater lures in January, but they are right now along the coasts of North and South Carolina. […]
Fishing
ICW trifecta gives Little River anglers plenty of winter targets
The ICW around Little River, South Carolina, fills up with stripers as the water cools. […]
Speckled Trout
Murrells Inlet trout
How to catch great December speckled trout at Murrells Inlet. […]
Sidebars
Don’t avoid black, tannic water
Water color varies greatly along the Carolinas’ coastal front, and the color of the water at the surface doesn’t always equate to unsavory conditions down below, especially when it has a blackish tint or is the color of Earl Grey tea. Tannic waters can offer exceptional conditions for speckled trout, and they often produce some whopper trout.
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The clear advantage – Look for clean water to catch Carolina speckled trout
All cylinders fire in the Carolinas when offshore and inshore fisheries take off at the end of fall. Offshore waters are dominated by massive grouper, line-stretching tuna and reel-screaming wahoo; the inshore grounds teem with redfish and the Carolinas’ most-coveted species, the speckled trout.
Sidebars
Rockin’ and reelin’ for specks
When the Nort Carolina coast typically experiences the first actual onset of cold weather in late November, two guides — Noah Lynk and Jot Owens — have an advantage.
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Specks go with the Flo – but not far
Four of North Carolina’s best saltwater guides agree that September’s Hurricane Florence caused habitat changes for speckled trout, moving them out of their favorite inshore haunts.
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Four NC hotspots for November trout
November along the North Carolina coast is a magical time to fish for spotted seatrout, aka speckled trout, because of one overriding factor: water temperature.