The offshore bite out of Southport has been excellent over the past week, both bottom-fishing and trolling for bluewater species. Now, if only the wind would quit blowing for Capt. Butch Foster. […]
Stripers have become a species of special interest in the Cape Fear River basin. Before the construction of three locks and dams between Wilmington and Fayetteville in the early 1900s, the Cape Fear was considered one of the top five striper rivers in the country. […]
A moratorium against possessing stripers from anywhere in the Cape Fear River basin below the B. Everett Jordan Dam has been in place since 2008. Beginning in 2003, the N.C. Wildlife Resources Commission conducted comprehensive surveys on the striper populations in the Cape Fear River system and determined the population was dangerously low and with minimal recruitment. […]
Since man began floating vessels across rivers and oceans, symbiotic relationships have formed and continue to provide benefits to users above and below the water’s surface. […]
The Cape Fear River and the ICW between Carolina Beach and Wrightsville Beach are prime places to find doormat flounder during the summer. […]
Flounder are ambush feeders, relying solely on the sense of sight to obtain their daily sustenance. […]
June brings real change to inshore waters with spring coming to a close. The perfect storm brews in the creeks and sounds along southeastern North Carolina’s coast; local estuaries boom with life: floods of crabs, slurries of small fishes and shrimp and boatloads of jazzed-up gamefish, including America’s favorite fluke. […]
A growing number of fishermen are aware of the striped bass in the Cape Fear, Northeast Cape Fear and Brunswick rivers around Wilmington during the winter, but there isn’t nearly as much recognition for those same fish as the weather and water warms from April through June. […]
Warm weather finally arrived in Wrightsville Beach this week, and the fish showed up off the beach, feeding like they’ve missed a few meals, according to Capt. Rick Bennett of Rod Man Charters, who said Atlantic bonito, Spanish mackerel, false albacore and bluefish have flocked to nearshore waters. […]
Would it bother you to see windmills on the ocean horizon? Would it help if they were supplying your electricity needs and eliminating the need for coal-fired, natural gas or nuclear power plants? […]
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