Bass Fishing
Winter harvest closed at Sutton
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. […]
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Bass Fishing
Sutton, a fly-angler’s paradise
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. […]
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Cape Fear River around Wilmington packed with stripers, puppy drum
Fishermen sticking close to downtown Wilmington have had it pretty good over the past week, according to Capt. Stuart Caulder of Gold Leader Fishing, who expects to catch stripers and puppy drum on every trip, and said productive trout waters are just a short boat-ride away. […]
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Spanish on the Rock – Fish Sheepshead Rock off Fort Fisher for great spring Spanish mackerel action
One of the regular oddities of the Cape Fear coast is a spring run of large Spanish mackerel along rocks just off the beach a few miles north of Cape Fear and the mouth of the Cape Fear River. […]
Bass Fishing
Sutton’s spring blitz
When the historic port city of Wilmington shows up on most anglers’ radar, the bountiful inshore and offshore fisheries quickly come to mind. […]
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Sunset Beach bridge holding plenty of hungry black drum
Capt. Mark Dickson of Shallow Minded Guide Service said the mild winter has led to an excellent black drum bite, plus some early spring specks and redfish leaving the inner marsh early in the lower reaches of Brunswick County. […]
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Bluewater wahoo bite out of Carolina Beach is awesome
Capt. Mike King of the Streamweaver in Carolina Beach thought there would be some wahoo holding in the general area of the Steeples off Carolina Beach last weekend, and he had a group ready to go after them. […]
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Sutton Lake access area reopens with many improvements
The N.C. Wildlife Resources Commission has completed renovations to the Sutton Lake Boating Access Area, and it is now open to the public. […]
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Crazy weather hasn’t slowed speckled trout bite in Southport area
The weather along North Carolina’s southeastern coast has been anything but consistent – mid-60s and snow in the same week – but inshore fish are still biting. […]
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State planning to deal with 605 acres of hydrilla in Lake Waccamaw
State officials are putting together a plan to deal with the discovery of hydrilla at Lake Waccamaw, a 9,000-acre natural lake in Columbus County. […]