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June 24, 2026

Many coastal representatives fear spills, which have littered the beaches with dead menhaden during past tourist seasons, from purse seine boats such as the one shown working here.

HB 1017: Brunswick Menhaden Restrictions, Passes House Committee

RALEIGH (April 17) – The House Committee on Environment and Natural Resources met yesterday to hear HB 1017: BRUNSWICK MENHADEN RESTRICTIONS, an act to make it unlawful to take Menhaden or Atlantic Thread Herring with a purse seine net within three nautical miles of the shoreline of Brunswick County from May 1 through October 31 of each year.
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Keeping focus on the water

Dustin Wilks

Mental focus can make or break your day on the water. […]

Reds are Rocking at Little River

Dan Kibler

Guide Mark Dickson of Shallow Minded Charters turned to the jetties on either side of Little River Inlet when last week’s cold weather shut down a great speckled trout bite. […]

Jarden Corporation has acquired Pure Fishing to strengthen and lengthen their outdoor lines.

Jarden Corporation Acquires Pure Fishing, Inc.

From News Reports

It was announced April 10 that Jarden Corporation (NYSE: JAH) had aquired Pure Fishing, Inc and its brands of Berkley, Fenwick, Abu Garcia, Gulp, Mitchell, Stren, Trilene, Spiderwire and Sevenstrand. […]

Anglers of all skill levels can learn basic to advanced fly fishing skills at the Appalachian Anglers’ fly-fishing clinic April 13 at Boone.

Appalachian Angler Plans Free Fly-fishing Clinic

From News Reports

BOONE — The Appalachian Angler will host “Fly for Free,” a free fly-fishing workshop at the Watauga River across from the Angler shop off N.C. 105 and Old Shulls Mill Rd near Boone. […]

With a named and dated receipt, fishermen in coastal rivers may continue to use purchased river herring as bait for fish like these stripers.

Agencies Clarify Rule for Bait Herring

From News Reports

RALEIGH, N.C. – The N.C. Wildlife Resources Commission and the Division of Marine Fisheries want anglers to know they can still use river herring (alewife and blueback herring) for bait as long as those herring are not taken from coastal rivers and sounds. […]

From March 24 to April 15, 2007, N.C. recreational anglers may keep one school bluefin tuna measuring 27 inches to less than 47 inches.

NMFS Adjusts N.C. Recreational BFT Bag Limit

From News Reports

To allow N.C. recreational fishermen to harvest part of the remaining annual bluefin tuna allocation from a spring run of school bluefin tuna off Cape Hatteras, the National Marine Fisheries Service has temporarily adjusted the size and posession limits for bluefin tuna. […]