This unusual recipe will have you asking for more August is the hottest month for sportsmen in the Carolinas. Fishing has been good all summer, but being smart rather than bold helps keep fishermen a […]
You’ll catch plenty of flounder in North Carolina’s waterways if you follow these tips from a local guide. […]
Gigging is an often-overlooked past-time that offers many benefits to anglers. A moonless night, plenty of boat lights and flounder are a June treasure. […]
Removing the backbone of a flounder is the perfect way to prepare the fish for stuffing. And it’s easier than it sounds if you follow these steps. […]
The good weather that comes with May also brings excellent flounder fishing to Little River on the North Carolina-South Carolina border. […]
Flounder are gregarious fish. If they bit like redfish, you’d regularly see a lot more flounder in magazines and on social media.
Grand Strand anglers will find better quality flounder just off the beaches where the fish hang out due to the cooler water temperatures. […]
Michael Hall of Carolina Beach catches a lot of Cape Fear River flounder, including some nice citation flatfish. However, his idea of a really nice flounder was upgraded with his most recent catch, when his fishing trip ended with Hall’s personal best flounder, a 9-pound, 2-ounce doormat.
If you want to get kids involved in the outdoors, taking them flounder gigging is a great way to do it. It’s summertime, and kids love staying up late this time of year. And with no school to prepare for each morning, most parents are okay with late bedtimes for them. And nighttime is the perfect time for gigging flounder.
The Cape Fear River is known for producing some of North Carolina’s biggest flounder, and Dennis Watson of Leland caught one of them last Tuesday, an 8-pound, 9-ounce monster.
Over the summer, the flounder fishery runs strong inside the estuaries and around the inlets close to Little River. Anglers get plenty of opportunities to reach their limit with a bucketful of mud minnows or their favorite soft-plastic bait, but the inshore lairs aren’t the only places to load up on a limit of flounder either.
In the middle of the summer, the Grand Strand’s public waterways fill up with just about every type of vessel imaginable, from kayaks and jet skis to the 200-foot gambling ships loaded with vacationers looking to hit the jackpot. Folks looking to take home the top fishing prize should troll their way to Little River’s flounder grounds, where a bona fide reward is lurking below the water’s surface.
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