Southeast NC Archives - Page 94 of 117

Tying the loop knot

Capt. Rick Bennett ties a loop knot to secure his line to every lure or jighead he uses. He said the knot allows the lure to move in the most-natural way, and he believes it helps draw strikes. […]

Guides Stu Caulder shows off the kind of puppy drum that the marshes of Bald Head Island regularly produce for fishermen during May.

Bald Head Brawl – The extensive marshes north of North Carolina’s Baldhead Island offer great inshore fishing in the spring

Jerry Dilsaver

The small schools of minnows, swept down the little marsh creek on the falling tide, seemed to get nervous as it crossed a spot just a few yards inside the creek’s mouth. […]

Guide Mark Stacy of Ocean Isle has been catching plenty of red drum in flooded marsh grass on high ends of the tide cycle this past week.

Puppy drum cruising in flooded marsh grass between Ocean Isle, Sunset Beach

Jerry Dilsaver

Capt. Mark Stacy of Ocean Isle Fishing Charters said inshore fish have finally settled in to a spring pattern – despite the rapid-fire cold fronts that have been breaking them up and keeping fish and fishermen confused. […]

Revis Long shows off his potential state-record bearded hen, killed last Tuesday in Columbus County.

Bearded hen taken in Columbus County may be NC’s biggest ever

Jeff Burleson

A long-awaited opportunity finally ended in success for a Columbus County hunter on April 16 when he killed a trophy bearded hen that’s unofficially the best ever killed in North Carolina. […]

Sherrill Mullis of Oak Island caught this 2-pound, 5-ounce citation pompano on April 17 from Ocean Crest Pier.

Whiting, puffers, bluefish are Oak Island pier fare as anglers await warmer water

Jerry Dilsaver

Spring came latethis year, but once it got its foot in the door, it has made up for lost time. One place fishermen are really noticing it are Oak Island’s piers. Even trout fishermen can’t hide pier catches; you’re 20 feet above the water, and either you reel fish in or you don’t. […]

There is a closure at Sutton Lake during the winter months to protect spawning fish.

Winter harvest closed at Sutton

Jeff Burleson

Due to population shifts and overfishing over the past decade, the N.C. Wildlife Resources Commission enacted a closure during the winter months through early spring to protect spawning fish. […]

A forage base of tiny shad makes fly-fishing equipment and tiny flies a perfect match on Sutton Lake.

Sutton, a fly-angler’s paradise

Jeff Burleson

Sutton Lake, with its smallish forage base, clear water and a wicked temperature range during the winter and spring, plays perfectly into a fly-angler’s wheelhouse. […]