Offshore Fishing Archives - Page 43 of 98

July 4, 2026

Sam Bush caught this hammerhead shark off the coast of Hilton Head while fishing with Outcast Sport Fishing Charters.

VIDEO: Hammerhead shark makes fishing reel scream

Capt. Chip Michalove of Outcast Sport Fishing in Hilton Head is known for catching big sharks, including great white sharks, off of South Carolina’s coast. […]

Greg Marquart (left) and Alex Chandler (right) were happy to bring this 96-pound cobia to Chasin' Tails Outdoors during the 2017 Cobia Challenge.

NC angler boats 96-pound cobia off Cape Lookout

Dusty Wilson

Entered in the Cobia Challenge put on by Chasin’ Tails Outdoors in Atlantic Beach, N.C., Greg Marquart of Macclesfield had high hopes of hooking a fish that would put him in the money when he set out for Barden Inlet near Cape Lookout on May 15. […]

Danny Juel (left) and T.J. Nixon (right) pose with the 115-pound wahoo they caught over live bottom in about 90 feet of water out of Little River.

Litte River angler catches 115-pound wahoo

Dusty Wilson

On a bottom fishing trip 43 miles southeast of Little River on April 29, Capt. Danny Juel and the crew aboard the Fish Screamer 3 were busy loading the fish box with triggerfish and vermillion snapper while fishing a ledge in 90 feet of water. […]

May is a great month for tuna fishing off the coast of the Outer Banks.

Hit the OBX tuna blitz

Dan Kibler

May is the month when bluewater fishermen flock to North Carolina’s Outer Banks for the year’s best chance at doing battle with big yellowfin tuna and their blackfin cousins. […]

Know the different grouper and snapper species — this one’s a scamp grouper — and make sure you know the most up-to-date regulations.

Know your bottomfish — or else

Chris Burrows

Since the reauthorization of the Magnuson Stevens Act in 2006, fishing regulations have changed at a rate never before seen, and nowhere more than in the Snapper/Grouper complex. […]

Jigging rigs need the best solid rings around

Chris Burrows

Fishermen tie an awful lot of rigs in an awful lot of different ways, and jigging is no different. Beginning jiggers are often unsure of the correct way to connect their terminal tackle. […]

Rods designed for bottom-jigging will bend all the way to the butt to enable anglers to put plenty of pressure on big fish.

The good ol’ Bimini twist is still the best

Chris Burrows

Anglers have devised a number of methods to create a double line, some easy to tie and some not. But there is probably not a more tried-and-true method of creating a loop than the venerable Bimini twist. […]

Gabriel Petteway, 9, from Rocky Mount, caught his first two Spanish mackerel on a June 2016 trip with Noah’s Ark Fishing Charters.

Cape Lookout speaks Spanish

Dan Kibler

There’s no shortage of fish ready to bite in the Cape Lookout area in June: flounder, speckled trout and redfish, for example. But when Noah Lynk of Noah’s Ark Fishing Charters steers his boat out of its Harkers Island. N.C., home base this month, he’s got Spanish mackerel on his mind. […]

Dolphin make a huge push into South Carolina’s offshore waters this month, especially for boats from Lowcountry ports.

Look for May Mahi

Jeff Burleson

Spring is by far the best time to take a trip to the Gulf Stream out of South Carolina’s coastal ports. Tuna and wahoo begin the frenzy in early March, followed by a major push of dolphin, aka Mahimahi, into the area as waters warm in May. And this dolphin migration is never something for any offshore junkie to miss. […]

Jeff Reid of Sanford, N.C., removes a hook before releasing a spring-run king caught off Oak Island, N.C.

Spring king run visits SE NC beaches

Jerry Dilsaver

The waters north of the North Carolina-South Carolina border experience several king mackerel runs each year, but the most-anticipated one is the first one, which has come in May as long as anyone can remember. […]