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Docks along the ICW from Wrightsville Beach to Bald Head Island come in various shapes and sizes, and a lot of them hold flounder through the summer.

Docks = Flounder Magnets

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. […]

Guide Jot Owens said the influx of baitfish into inshore waters from Wrightsville Beach to Snow’s Cut and through to the Cape Fear attracts flounders’ attention.

Don’t forget Snow’s Cut

Jeff Burleson

The Cape Fear River and the ICW between Carolina Beach and Wrightsville Beach are prime places to find doormat flounder during the summer. […]

Flounder appear to bite better on bright, sunny days when the water is extremely clear, if you know how to make a good presentation with a bright-colored lure.

Let conditions dictate presentation

Jeff Burleson

Flounder are ambush feeders, relying solely on the sense of sight to obtain their daily sustenance. […]

A sonic tag is inserted into the stomach of a Cape Fear River striper. It will allow the striper’s movements to be tracked by biologists.

Cape Fear striper spawn and migration

Jerry Dilsaver

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. […]

Striped bass and other species have been passing up the rock-arch rapids fish ladder at Lock and Dam No. 1 near Riegelwood on their way to traditional spawning grounds upstream.

Cape Fear River striper moratorium and stocking

Jerry Dilsaver

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. […]

Doormat flounder are common June catches along the ICW from Wrightsville Beach to Carolina Beach and into Snow’s Cut.

Flat Out Fun – It’s ‘doormat’ time for Cape Fear flounder fishermen, and docks are a good place to start

Jeff Burleson

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. […]

Spring and early summer stripers around Wilmington are worth the pursuit according to Capt. Stuart Caulder.

Earn your summer stripes – Post-spawn fish, returning downriver, have made Wilmington a summer striper destination

Jerry Dilsaver

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. […]

Atlantic bonito are the headliner of several species of fish that have moved to nearshore reefs out of Wrightsville Beach once the water warmed sufficiently.

Nearshore gamefish have turned on off Wrightsville Beach

Jerry Dilsaver

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. […]

Two of three possible wind farm sites are between Cape Fear and the South Carolina border.

Are wind farms on the horizon for North Carolina coastline?

Jerry Dilsaver

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? […]

Bald Head Island features thousands of acres of productive marsh habitat for redfish, trout, black drum and flounder.

Bald Head Island is unique

Jerry Dilsaver

Bald Head Island, often shown on older maps as Smith Island, is the only part of Brunswick County east of the Cape Fear River at its mouth. […]