Southeast NC Archives - Page 106 of 117

The rip-rap at Brown’s landing holds plenty of flounder and red drum.

Saltwater Series: Southport

Southport is one of those places just about everyone has heard about and some have fished. It is a sleepy tourist and fishing town on the mainland near the mouth of the Cape Fear River. […]

Capt. Butch Foster puts the hoist on a tremendous red grouper caught offshore of Southport this past summer.

Autumn Down Low

Craig Holt

Like many North Carolina charterboat captains, Butch Foster of Southport migrated to the coast from inland after spending many vacations there, finally deciding to make it his permanent home. […]

Tarpon fishing has been productive during the late summer at the southeastern N.C. coast.

Bull reds, tarpon, flounder creating hot action at coast

Craig Holt

Three species of saltwater fish — tarpon, red drum and flounder — are providing most of the action around Wrightsville Beach during late summer. […]

Big flounder are the ticket inshore near Wrightsville Beach, even in hot weather.

Doormats providing action for anglers

Craig Holt

Flounder fishing has hit its stride up and down the North Carolina coast, and anglers are having good luck with artificial lures as well as tried-and-true live-bait rigs. […]

This angler landed a 7-pound flounder while fishing with Capt. Keith Logan of Holden Beach.

Reds, flounder action sizzles while it’s hot

Craig Holt

With daytime heat indices soaring into the triple digits across North Carolina, the Tar Heel coast is one of the hottest places to be — except in the early morning hours before the sun rises and ocean breezes keep things cool. […]

Jeff Wolfe of Wilmington, a local guide, has discovered huge sheepshead at certain Cape Fear River channel pilings.

Huge river sheepshead, flounder mark southeastern inshore action

Craig Holt

Anglers discovered several years ago that Cape Fear River flounder grew to the most prodigious sizes of any flatfish at the southeastern coast, topping doormats caught from the ocean or local marsh creeks. […]

Angler Tim Cox set the North Carolina state record for queen triggerfish when he landed this 10.34-pound brute May 22.

Huge queen triggerfish sets state record

Mike Marsh

Micah Cox is no stranger to saltwater fishing or to catching big fish. He has a stated goal of catching a citation-sized fish of every marine species on the North Carolina Department of Marine Fisheries’ list. […]

Pennsylvania's Stu Bason made the most of his charter trip to Wrightsville Beach on July 10 when he landed this 11-pound flounder.

Pennsylvania angler drags huge flounder from under ICW dock

Jeff Burleson

Stu Basom, a visiting angler from Pennsylvania, caught an 11-pound flounder on July 10 in the final hour of a guided fishing trip with Capt. Jot Owens of Wrightsville Beach. […]

Jeff Wolfe fishes under the US 421, which crosses Snow’s Cut -- named for the engineer who oversaw the project eight decades ago.

Snow’s Cut also has doormat flounder

Craig Holt

Snow’s Cut is a place that not only contains good sheepshead fishing but some of the biggest flounder in the state. […]

Christian Wolfe has his hands full with a couple of nice Snow’s Cut sheepshead.

A Bridge Not Too Far

Craig Holt

Jeff Wolfe smiled as he slowly motored the quarter-mile from the boat ramp at Snow’s Cut below US 421 to the supports of the bridge spanning the waterway. […]