No fear, trout still here!

Lower Cape Fear is perfect ‘summer home’ for plenty of specks. Here’s how to catch them.

Fishermen have many options in the lower Cape Fear River during the summer, with redfish, flounder and sheepshead available from Snow’s Cut all the way to the Bald Head Island jetties.

And low and behold, one of North Carolina’s premier gamefish, the speckled trout, will be congregated in familiar places.While most anglers restrict trout talk to the fall and the early spring , these spotted delicacies will be swarming inshore waters, spawning and pouncing on any food they come across. By using the right stuff in the right places, fishermen can catch trout well into the summer.

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