Northeast NC Archives - Page 70 of 77

Nashville's Tracey Smith caught the pending state-record white crappie March 8 while fishing with a buddy on Tar River Reservoir.

Nashville angler catches pending state-record crappie

If you’re going to spend the day crappie fishing and only catch two fish, having one of them break the state record is pretty much a trip-saver. […]

Featured

Weldon Boating Access Area renovated

From News Reports

RALEIGH, N.C. (March 2) – The North Carolina Wildlife Resources Commission has opened the newly refurbished Weldon Boating Access Area on the Roanoke River for this year’s striped bass season. […]

Anglers are catching Atlantic Ocean striped bass in the surf and offshore from Kitty Hawk to Corolla and farther north to Virginia.

Ocean striped bass bite heats up at northern coast

Craig Holt

Unusually cold December weather has fired up the Atlantic Ocean striped bass bite along North Carolina’s northern coastline. […]

Capt. David Cutler showed off a 20-pound king mackerel that hit a live menhaden fished in 70 feet of water southwest of Little River.

Cold snap moves king mackerel off beach, but fishermen find them

Dan Kibler

A cold snap in mid-October threw king mackerel fishermen for a loop along the South Carolina coastline. Fortunately, they knew how to respond. […]

Events & Announcements

Corps of Engineers opposing another Navy OLF plan

Craig Holt

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has thrown another roadblock in the U.S. Navy’s plans to place an Outlying Landing Field at prospective sites at Camden and Gates counties.
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The Pelican displays 23 white marlin flags Sept. 21. The boat ran out of white marlin flags and had to use sailfish flags to display the total.

White marlin wizardry at northern coast

Craig Holt

Captain Arch Bracher of the Oregon Inlet Fishing Center-based charterboat Pelican set a marina record this week for one-day white marlin releases. […]

Sailfish action can be sizzling during September off the N.C. coast.

September time for spotting sails

Craig Holt

Capt. Bill Dillon of the Beagle, a 62-foot sportfisherman docked at the Capt. Stacy Fishing Center at Atlantic Beach, has one word for September saltwater ocean anglers — sailfish. […]

The nearshore waters off Little River have been teeming with Spanish mackerel over the past week.

Spanish thick just off the beach near Little River Inlet

Dan Kibler

The mackerel bite off Little River Inlet has been great – and it’s about to get better. […]

Habitat at the Lewis Ocean Bay Heritage Preserve in Horry County is starting to recover from this spring’s wildlife.

Preserve recovering from spring fire damage

Jeff Burleson

Although a big chunk of habitat is gone, wildlife has returned to the Lewis Ocean Bay Heritage Preserve in eastern Horry County, four months after a massive wildfire devastated the area. […]

A striped bass in the 6- or 7-pound class is a fairly good fish at Kerr Reservoir these days.

Don’t Sweat the Small Stuff

Craig Holt

It was typically hot and steamy on July 19, 2008, at John H. Kerr Reservoir, a 50,000-acre Army Corps of Engineers lake along the North Carolina-Virginia border. […]