Northeast NC Archives - Page 40 of 77

Fishermen have been catching plenty of slot-sized red drum around the Cape Lookout rock jetties, along with bluefish, black drum and sea mullet.

Forget the bluefins! The drum are biting around the Cape Lookout rock jetty

Noah Lynk of Noah’s Ark Charters in Harkers Island said it’s hard to ignore the lure of chasing huge bluefin tuna within a few miles of the beach at Cape Lookout, but for fishermen who don’t have the heavy duty equipment or the desire to get pulled around by a 700-pound fish, the inshore fishing around the Cape has been good. […]

The Winyah Scarp area of South Carolina's offshore waters has produced some great catches of wahoo the past two weeks.

Offshore wahoo bite has been great around Winyah Scarp

Jeff Burleson

The season of giving continues into the New Year for anglers willing to brave the 60-mile journey to the blue waters at the Winyah Scarp, as fishermen are finding monster-sized wahoo and lots of them. […]

Hunter Davis has an awfully big seat on his dad's boat, Grady Bunch, after it landed a 785-pound bluefin tuna on Jan. 1. The crew followed up that catch with a 767-pound bluefin the next day.

Back-to-back bluefin add up to more than 1,500 pounds for Fuquay-Varina captain

Craig Holt

The crew of the Grady Bunch, fishing the first two days of 2015 just outside Beaufort Inlet, may not have landed a state-record bluefin tuna, but the three men and a boy almost certainly accomplished a feat no other North Carolina saltwater crew has duplicated, two bluefin tuna that combined to weigh more than 1,500 pounds. […]

Guide MItchell Blake takes care of the striped bass for sportsmen who want to a cast-and-blast experience on the water around the Albemarle Sound and Roanoke River.

January cast and blast – The Albemarle and Pamlico sounds are two great spots for a cast-and-blast double-play in January

Dusty Wilson

While winter bears down on North Carolina, the Albemarle and Pamlico sounds play host to a combination of fins and feathers that’s sure to light a fire under any sportsman. […]