Inshore Fishing

Cut the glare!

Sight-fishing for both freshwater and saltwater fish takes on more of a hunting tact than fishing. Anglers must detect targets long before the fish realize they have been spotted. […]

Inshore Fishing

Tying one on

Fishing for tailing reds on flooded flats is among the most-exciting angling opportunities available to South Carolina fishermen. […]

Bass Fishing

Best lures for the post-spawn

Because bass leave spring spawning beds over a period of weeks, Joel Richardson knows these fish may be at different areas of an impoundment on a particular day, and that means fitting his tackle to the area(s) he chooses to fish. […]

Inshore Fishing

Cape Fear striper spawn and migration

Stripers have become a species of special interest in the Cape Fear River basin. Before the construction of three locks and dams between Wilmington and Fayetteville in the early 1900s, the Cape Fear was considered one of the top five striper rivers in the country. […]

Inshore Fishing

Cape Fear River striper moratorium and stocking

A moratorium against possessing stripers from anywhere in the Cape Fear River basin below the B. Everett Jordan Dam has been in place since 2008. Beginning in 2003, the N.C. Wildlife Resources Commission conducted comprehensive surveys on the striper populations in the Cape Fear River system and determined the population was dangerously low and with minimal recruitment. […]