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September 14, 2026

Spoil islands offer redfish with great habitat in the ICW around Little River.

Target spoil islands along ICW

Fishing the marshes in the Little River area can keep any angler busy in the fall, but the banks of the ICW should not be forgotten, especially the spoil islands. […]

Redfish tailing on flood-tide flats are often located by their tail fin breaking the surface.

Target tailers on flood tides

Jeff Burleson

A few days per month, the moon’s gravity bushes a few more inches of water into the estuaries on what are known as flood tides. […]

Moving water on the high end of the tide cycle is the ticket to running into numbers of nice speckled trout around Hilton Head Island.

Take a different angle around oysters

Brian Cope

Rick Percy’s surefire way of boating September speckled trout is by fishing oyster beds on an incoming tide, but he said a lot of other anglers approach these flats the wrong way. […]

MidCoast’s Evolution popping cork is heavy enough to make it easy to cast in windy conditions.

With all the popping corks on the market, it is tough to see how any of them are better or even different than the next, but guide Rick Percy said some are definitely more suited for his style of fishing. […]

Know when a trout’s a speck

Brian Cope

Fishermen in the Hilton Head area have three excellent nearshore reefs to fish that are close enough to the beach and close enough to each other to be visited in one trip: the Fish America Reef, the General Gordon and the Parris Island Reef. […]

Clinton Bardner shows off a flathead catfish, many of which will exceed 30 pounds and at times push 80 pounds.

Location is everything

Craig Holt

Large flathead catfish hunker down during the day in deep holes and in undercut river banks and don’t feed much when the sun is out, but they become active during evening hours in the narrower sections of the Neuse River south and west of Kinston. […]

Live bluegill are favored baits for flathead cats in most bodies of water, including the Neuse River.

All baits should come from the river

Craig Holt

Anglers who use live baits typically follow a rule that’s a cliché: the larger the bait, the bigger the fish it will catch. […]

Finding Norman’s rock reefs

Tim Mead

Numerous websites, including one belonging to the N.C. Wildlife Federation, provide map coordinates, not GPS coordinates, for the Lake Norman artificial rock reefs. […]

Channel catfish and blues are both biting at night on Lake Murray when anglers use stink baits in the right spots.

Lake Murray catfish biting at night, especially on stink baits

Brian Cope

Anglers looking for some catfish action will find it at Lake Murray, especially if they fish at night and use stink bait on the bottom. Channel catfish and blues of various sizes are the two main whiskered-fish that are easy to catch right now, and Leesville’s Tony Alexander said he doesn’t see any sign of the bite slowing down. […]