Inshore Fishing
Be crabby when you can
Guide Dan Utley considers a chunk of a legal blue crab an ideal bait for fishing under a cork in high-water grass. […]
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Freshwater Fishing
Planer boards make trolling work
It wouldn’t be possible or effective to run a trolling setup without planer boards on the outer lines. […]
Inshore Fishing
The wader’s dress code
You can wade a flooded flat in a bathing suit and bare feet — that’s not suggested — but fly-fishing instructor John Holbrook suggests wearing quick-drying long pants and wading shoes to protect from the sharp grasses and shell and polarized glasses and a hat to help see the fish. […]
Freshwater Fishing
Live bait equals better bites
Nothing beats the real thing when it comes to bait. Lure manufacturers have spent millions of dollars researching and trying to replicate the movements of baitfish, but a cast net can provide the real thing over and over again. […]
Inshore Fishing
Go big and go flashy
The size of a bait and presentation is often critical for duping a fish into biting, and quite often, natural baits in muted colors are exactly what the doctor ordered. […]
Bass Fishing
Fish upriver: the alternative to piers
With the deep-water bite vanishing at High Rock, pounding piers is shallow water has become the norm at the lake. On any given day, a parade of fishermen marches along, flipping piers and docks along the shoreline. […]
Inshore Fishing
Rock on around the big rocks
For most of the year, the rock jetties at the entrance to the coastal estuaries provide a perfect state of affairs for a wide range of predator fish, bringing ample food resources and stable water conditions. […]
Bass Fishing
Flipping can lead to fishing elbow
Flipping may be the most-effective way to fish piers and reach their hard-to-reach inner recesses, but its practitioners risk an injury known as “fishing elbow,” which can result in surgery. […]
Inshore Fishing
Pro-active limits protect fishery
Last summer, state law changed, establishing an aggregate limit on the three species of saltwater panfish. […]
Offshore Fishing
Boat’s name came from a hillbilly dancing legend
Thomas Wood’s 56-foot boat may not be the newest at the Morehead City waterfront, but it certainly has the most unique name. […]