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FREE RANGER weighs in 597.4-pound blue marlin at Big Rock

On Day 3 of the 2026 Big Rock Blue Marlin Tournament, FREE RANGER weighed in a 597.4-pound blue marlin and moved in to second place. […]

Brittany Gardner’s red drum

Field Reporter

Some red drum action using a popping cork with live in the Morehead City, NC area! […]

TOP DOG won this year's Big Rock Blue Marlin Tournament, and set a new tournament record with this 914-pound specimen.

TOP DOG’s 914-pound blue marlin wins Big Rock!

Brian Cope

TOP DOG took first place in the 61st Annual Big Rock Blue Marlin Tournament with a 914-pounder they caught on the final day of the event. […]

Alex Ng caught this double-digit flounder while fishing with his wife along the wall at Morehead City.

Morehead City angler boats 12.33 pound flounder

Jerry Dilsaver

Alex Ng is no stranger to big fish. Earlier this year Carolina Sportsman had a story about he and his brother, Anthony, catching huge grouper. Ng also enjoys fishing the calmer waters inside the inlets and his preferred quarry there is flounder. On Aug. 29, he caught a very healthy 12.33-pound flounder that was his second flatfish to exceed 10 pounds. […]

Alex Ng poses with his 63-pound gag grouper.

Brothers bag huge gag groupers out of Morehead City

Jerry Dilsaver

A pair of brothers, Anthony and Alex Ng have been grouper fishing for more than 30 years, but scored their largest gag groupers ever this year. Alex Ng, of Morehead City, scored first on June 12 with a 63 pounder while fishing with his friend Bradley Brown. Several weeks later, he was fishing with his brother, Anthony, when Anthony wrestled a 68 pounder to the boat. […]

Flounder in the inshore waters around Morehead City, N.C., are a popular target during the summer.

Morehead flounder give summer anglers plenty to look forward to

Craig Holt

Maybe it’s the difficulties in safely navigating inshore waters that push some flounder fanatics to the ocean when summer arrives in the Atlantic Beach, N.C., area. […]

The crew of Run-Off poses with the winning blue marlin.

Morehead City boat catches $467,500 prize at Big Rock Tournament

From News Reports

Run-Off ran off with $467,500 Monday when the Morehead City-based charter boat landed a 533.8-pounder to grab the inaugural lead of the 59th annual Big Rock Blue Marlin Tournament. […]

Cooler waters 45 to 50 feet deep around the State Port Wall in Morehead City, N.C., hold plenty of flounder at the peak of the summer’s heat.

State Port Wall is Morehead City’s summer flounder hot spot

Craig Holt

July is steamy along North Carolina’s coast, and high water temperatures can make fishing a challenging pursuit. […]

While several giant bluefin have been caught off N.C.'s coast this year, Scott McCoy, Chris Garner, and Clarke Merrell have caught the biggest so far, this 1045-pound beast.

1045-pound bluefin tuna caught by Morehead City anglers

Dusty Wilson

Who has caught the biggest bluefin tuna in North Carolina waters this year? That honor is being passed back and forth between fishermen from Morehead City and Southport, but since Jan. 20, it has belonged to three Morehead City anglers who landed a 1,045-pound fish that day. […]

Randy Harmon of Morehead City caught this cubera snapper off of Cape Lookout. The fish shattered the previous N.C. state record by over 11 pounds.

Morehead City angler catches new N.C. state record cubera snapper

Jerry Dilsaver

The waters off Cape Lookout aren’t known for producing lots of cubera snapper, but North Carolina’s last two state records have come from there, and the one Randy Harmon of Morehead City caught on Sept. 28 raised the record 11.5 pounds to 58 pounds. […]