Just after the ball hits bottom in Times Square on New Year’s Eve, recreational fishermen across the Southeast Atlantic will add shallow-water grouper to the growing list of offshore bottom species that are off limits. […]
Atlantic Coast recreational fishermen have been asking for a reduction in the menhaden harvest for a decade or more, and the Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission finally agreed at its annual meeting in early November. […]
Atlantic Coast recreational fishermen have been asking for a reduction in the menhaden harvest for a decade or more, and the Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission finally agreed at its annual meeting in early November. […]
King mackerel have a special place in the hearts of many fishermen in North Carolina’s center-console armada. […]
Recreational fishermen along the south Atlantic Coast weren’t expecting to get in a full year of black sea bass fishing, but when the limit was reduced from 15 to five fish, most thought the season would last more than four or five months. […]
Hogfish are generally regarded as one of the more difficult species of bottomfish to catch on rod and reel, so when Summerville attorney Wes Covington thought he was in a fight with a big grouper, he was surprised to hear his friends shout “It’s a hogfish!” […]
The South Atlantic Fishery Management Council voted unanimously in a special meeting on Aug. 10 to reopen bottom fishing in waters 240 feet deep out to 200 miles after being closed since January. […]
Like many North Carolina charterboat captains, Butch Foster of Southport migrated to the coast from inland after spending many vacations there, finally deciding to make it his permanent home. […]
Here’s a short history of the evolution of fishermen.
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Cannonball jellyfish — “jelly balls” — are both bane and blessing to king mackerel fishermen. […]
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