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Speckled trout are caught along Masonboro Inlet’s rock jetties when the falling tide pulls baitfish and shrimp toward the ocean.

Seine Masonboro Inlet’s jetties for specks

The jetties at Masonboro Inlet are oddities along the North Carolina coast, where most inlets aren’t lined with the stone structures. […]

Speckled trout can tolerate waters with a wide range of salinities as long as food is readily available.

Speckled trout biology

Jerry Dilsaver

Spotted seatrout, aka speckled trout, are members of the sciaenidae family, which includes drums, croakers and weakfish. They are prized as gamefish by recreational anglers throughout their range, from the Chesapeake Bay to Laguna Madre in south Texas, and have been occasionally caught as far north as New York and as far south as Mexico. […]

Capt. Rod Thomas with Capt. Ponytail Guide Service shows off a bull red drum that he recently caught in Pamlico Sound.

Catch your fish of a lifetime in the Pamlico Sound

Brian Cope

If you want to catch the fish of a lifetime, you just have to go where they are, when they are there. It’s as simple as that. And while a lot of anglers will continue to fish the water that is closest to their home, hoping that one day the big one will bite, other anglers broaden their range, and go where the big fish are, and when the big fish are there. […]

Using light tackle made the battle with this 60-pound wahoo quite exciting for Dwayne Gray of Winston-Salem on Aug 27.

Winston-Salem angler catches 60-pound wahoo out of Beaufort Inlet

Dusty Wilson

About 15 miles outside of Beaufort Inlet, a curious wahoo found itself in hot water when it swam up to investigate the charter group of guide Stewart Merritt of Morehead City. […]

For the best North Carolina speckled trout fishing, make sure you’re tied to the tide.

Tide to fall specks – Run the tide for North Carolina speckled trout

Jerry Dilsaver

As he slowly motored away from the dock, guide Jot Owens laid out his game plan. Speckled trout are affected greatly by the tide, he said, and he wanted to work with it at several locations, explaining that shrimp and baitfish move up small creeks into the marsh when the tide is high, then move back out to larger creeks as it falls. […]

Flounder guru Jimmy Price prefers to throw artificials at fish in the Cape Fear area during the fall.

Cape Fear is flatfish capital this month

Jerry Dilsaver

It isn’t a secret that North Carolina’s lower Cape Fear River is a good place to catch flounder. The area produces great numbers of flounder and plenty of big fish; the 20-pound, 8-ounce state-record was caught there in 1980 […]

Zach Brubaker and Darren Bivens pose with the 111-pound stingray they killed near Ocean Isle Beach last week.

Concord hunters arrow 111-pound stingray near Ocean Isle Beach

Brian Cope

North Carolina’s deer hunting season is right around the corner, and while many archery hunters will take a little time to work out the kinks of not hunting for months, others like Kevin Rowland keep in shape by drawing a bow throughout the summer on other live targets like wild hogs and even stingrays. […]

Small, live menhaden are a favorite bait of flounder fishermen once summer arrives.

For flounder baits, pick your own poison

Jerry Dilsaver

What is the best flounder bait? At the risk of sounding obnoxious, it’s what the flounder want to eat that day. The popularity nod goes to live baits, but artificials often produce well, too. […]

Local hero Anthony Gagliardi won the FLW Cup on Lake Murray in 2014, and he is just one of many anglers happy to see it scheduled for Murray again in 2017.

FLW Cup coming back to Lake Murray in 2017

From News Reports

FLW and Capital City/Lake Murray Country Regional Tourism Board announced Saturday that Columbia, South Carolina, would once again be hosting the Forrest Wood Cup presented by Walmart, the world championship of bass fishing, Aug. 11-13, 2017, on Lake Murray. […]

These two outdoorsmen had a big night of gigging with Capt. Allen Jernigan of Breadman Ventures, gigging a 7-pound flounder, and one with a genetic anomaly.

7-pound flounder gigged near Sneads Ferry

Brian Cope

Plenty of fish are biting along the inshore waters from Swansboro to Wrightsville, and the only downer for anglers is the heat. But that’s easy to beat if you take an inshore adventure that’s a little different than the typical fishing trip. […]