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The New River is full of cover, and a side-scan unit can spot it for more than 200 feet on both sides of the boat, and it can operate in only 2 to 3 of water.

Reds on the side – Side-scan technology helps guide to catch more red drum

As Dave Eakins blistered a blue streak across the New River, a thought came to mind; something seems out of place. […]

Many great spots to target redfish in marshes around Morehead City are filling with sand or becoming inaccessible on low water.

Favorite red drum haunts are filling with sand

Outstanding places to find red drum in shallow waters along North Carolina’s coast are disappearing, much to the consternation and puzzlement of guide Joe Shute of Atlantic Beach. […]

As the weather warms in March, more and more redfish move back into the ICW and the marshes around Swansboro.

Stem the red tide – Learn the tides and you can figure out Swansboro’s late-winter red drum

Jerry Dilsaver

Rick Patterson quickly checked the tide level on the bulkhead as he eased his bay boat away from the dock. He decided it would be wise give the tide an hour or two to rise and bring more water to flats where he’d found redfish, leaving him fishing several nearby creeks and deeper channels. […]

Commercial netters have landed 71,000 pounds of red drum since Sept. 1, better than half of their fall/winter allocation, so the N.C. Division of Marine fisheries has cut their trip limit from seven to four fish.

Commercial limit on red drum is cut from seven fish to four

North Carolina Sportsman

Because they’ve had so much success early in the season, commercial fishermen in North Carolina are going to have their daily trip limits cut from seven fish to four, beginning on Friday, Dec. 5. […]

Two commercial fishermen from Dare County were arrested on Monday in Wilmington with 113 red drum in their possession, more than 100 over the limit.

Two commercial fishermen charged for having oversized red drum, 16 times the legal limit

North Carolina Sportsman

Two commercial fishermen were taken to jail earlier this week when they were found with more than 16 times the legal possession limit of red drum. […]

With a daily creel limit of one fish, catch-and-release is a staple for anglers targeting redfish in North Carolina.

Red drum specifics

Jerry Dilsaver

Red drum, sciaenops ocellatus, are also called redfish, puppy drum, spot-tail bass, channel bass and spot-tail drum. […]

Surf fishermen along the entire Outer Banks have been catching plenty of fish, including some big red drum and "yearlings" like this one from Ocracoke.

Big red drum highlight great week of surf, pier fishing on Outer Banks

Dan Kibler

Surf fishing on the Outer Banks has been great over the past week or so, especially for the big drum that draw so many anglers to beaches from Nags Head south to Ocracoke. […]

The N.C. Marine Fisheries Commission has voted to close a loophole that allowed commercial netters to sell more than their daily allotment of "by-catch" red drum.

State closes loophole that allowed netters to sell over their limit of drum

Craig Holt

The N.C. Division of Marine Fisheries took a major step Thursday toward curtailing the sale of over-limit red drum by commercial netters when Executive Director Louis Daniel issued a proclamation that takes effect Sept. 1 when the 2014-15 netting season opens. […]

Nice upper-slot drum aren't in big schools, but they're plenty aggressive in the waters around Sneads Ferry.

Red drum, trout action is topping out around Sneads Ferry

Jerry Dilsaver

Capt. Allen Jernigan of Breadman Ventures in Sneads Ferry said the inshore fishing is as hot as the weather, and that the summer heat has fired up flounder, red drum and speckled trout in the area. […]

The N.C. Division of Marine Fisheries said that commercial netters exceeded their entire quota of red drum for the 2014 season in only 84 days last fall.

North Carolina closes commercial netting for red drum until at least Sept. 1.

Jerry Dilsaver

The N.C. Division of Marine Fisheries has closed commercial fishing for red drum statewide because netters caught more than their allowable poundage for the entire season in just a few months last fall. […]