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Down South, Down Under

Fishing offshore during the winter is different. It’s a lot of fun, but it requires more preparation than other times of the year. […]

Once upon a time, anglers at the southeastern North Carolina coast put up their skinny water rods when it turned cold, winterized their boats and waited for spring to feed their fishing habit once again. […]

Specks ‘N’ Spots

Jerry Dilsaver

The watery ring the bait and float created when they lightly splashed into the protected water at the mouth of the small creek off the North River had spread just a few feet when the bobber unceremoniously disappeared. […]

Toothy Torpedoes

Dan Kibler

Fishermen come in contact with barracudas an awful lot at the North Carolina coast. […]

Water blows from several holes as the Capt. Greg MicKey slips beneath the waves to become a part of AR 400, near Frying Pan Tower.

Former Menhaden Boat Becomes Centerpiece of AR 400

Jerry Dilsaver

It has taken a while and been rescheduled three times, but thanks to the hard work and dedication of many volunteers, the former menhaden boat, Coastal Mariner, has been re-christened the Captain Greg MicKey and assumed its final resting place near the center of AR 400, Frying Pan Tower Reef.
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The King of the Cape Classic, held for years in the old Southport Yacht Basin at the Shrimp House Restaurants and Southport Watersports has lost its home due to impending development and has been cancelled for 2007.

King of the Cape Loses Southport Home

Craig Holt

The old bromide that money talks and everything else walks is holding true at the N.C. coast. […]

Many coastal representatives fear spills, which have littered the beaches with dead menhaden during past tourist seasons, from purse seine boats such as the one shown working here.

HB 1017: Brunswick Menhaden Restrictions, Passes House Committee

From News Reports

RALEIGH (April 17) – The House Committee on Environment and Natural Resources met yesterday to hear HB 1017: BRUNSWICK MENHADEN RESTRICTIONS, an act to make it unlawful to take Menhaden or Atlantic Thread Herring with a purse seine net within three nautical miles of the shoreline of Brunswick County from May 1 through October 31 of each year.
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Anglers can learn the essentials of fly fishing Oct. 14 at a Sesqui State Park seminar.

Columbia offers Oct. 14 fly fishing workshop

From News Reports

The Saluda River Chapter of Trout Unlimited and the Federation of Fly Fishers will conduct an Introduction to fly fishing class and workshops at Sesqui State Park outside of Columbia Saturday, Oct. 14, from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. […]

Lock and Dam # 2, near Elizabethtown, is one of three dams on the Cape Fear River system being considered for removal.

Removal of Cape Fear River Locks and Dams Could Improve Fish Populations

From News Reports

RALEIGH, N.C. – The removal of three obsolete dams in North Carolina could improve recreational and commercial fisheries for striped bass, American shad, hickory shad, and help tremendously in restoration efforts for river herring, Atlantic sturgeon and shortnose sturgeon. […]

The “Hole” (also called the Tree Hole) offers some of Carolina Beach’s heftiest flatfish.

Hole Lotta Flounder

Mike Marsh

Carolina Beach has earned a reputation for producing some of the nicest catches of big flounder in the state of North Carolina and perhaps the world. […]