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Regional
Saltwater Fishing Reports
Northern
District Dare, Hyde, Currituck, & Beaufort
Counties
Please Note: Anglers sometimes confuse small king mackerel with Spanish mackerel. King mackerel and spanish mackerel have different size and catch limits. Make SURE you properly identify the mackerel you are catching. (Tips here) A recreational Recreational Fishing License goes into effect Jan. 1, 2007 for all of the state's coastal and ocean waters. Tagged Red Drum: Download PDF with reward details. |
| Charterboats: Fishing offshore is much
improved than previously, with limits of dolphin, and moderate catches
of very large yellowfin tuna. Billfish catches are improving with a
few marlin & sailfish being landed. Midrange catches are very good
with lots of blueline tilefish, black seabass and grouper. Inshore
success has been poor with only a few trips being made with little
results.
Headboats: Trips have produced a moderate amounts of skate, spot, croaker, kingfish, bluefish and dogfish sharks. Private Boats: Fishing has improved somewhat this past week with nice catches of kingfish(sea mullet), spot, seatrout, weakfish, and a few flounder finally showing up. Anglers should still give it a try when the weather permits as fishing success is improving. Piers: Spotted seatrout have been almost a sure catch in the early mornings with a mixed bag of species being caught throughout the day including weakfish, croaker, bluefish, skate and an occasional cobia. Shore: The morning "specs" are being caught in the surf as well, with catches similar to those on piers throughout the day, with the exception of nice specimens of red drum being caught south of Rodanthe. General Overview: Water temp in the surf- KIll Devil Hills has reached 63 degrees and improving weather patterns have allowed anglers better success. |
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Central
District Pamlico, Craven, Carteret, & Onslow
Counties Contact: Suzanne Hill May 21 For the 2006 fishing year, all owners/operators of vessels recreationally fishing for and/or retaining regulated Atlantic Highly Migratory Species (HMS) (Atlantic tunas, sharks, swordfish and billfish) in the Atlantic Ocean, including the Gulf of Mexico and Caribbean Sea, must obtain an Atlantic Highly Migratory Species (HMS) Angling permit. This permit has replaced the Atlantic tunas Angling category permit. In North Carolina, additional HMS harvest reporting requirements are also in place. Please Note: Anglers sometimes confuse small king mackerel with Spanish mackerel. King mackerel and spanish mackerel have different size and catch limits. Make SURE you properly identify the mackerel you are catching. (Tips here) A
recreational
Recreational Fishing License goes into effect Jan. 1,
2007 for all of the state's coastal and ocean waters. |
| Headboats: Fishing offshore is great.
Vermilion snapper were plentiful. More and more dolphin are being
hooked. There are also white grunts and black seabass.
CharterBoats: When the wind died down, the boats fished. Dolphin, fat tuna, wahoo and some kings were caught. Private Boats: A few flounder were caught around Bear Island along with red drum. Spanish were thick at the hook at the Cape, and down Atlantic Beach and Beaufort Inlet . The wind kept many anglers on shore. Bluefish were caught everywhere. Enormous schools of menhaden were spotted around Beaufort Inlet. Piers/Shore: Small croakers, spot, pinfish and shark were caught everywhere from Harkers Island and North River to Bogue Sound and New River. There were a few tiny kingfish and black seabass thrown back. |
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Southern
District Pender, New Hanover, & Brunswick Counties Contact: Dennis Trowell May 21 For the 2005 fishing year, all owners/operators of vessels recreationally fishing for and/or retaining regulated Atlantic Highly Migratory Species (HMS) (Atlantic tunas, sharks, swordfish and billfish) in the Atlantic Ocean, including the Gulf of Mexico and Caribbean Sea, must obtain an Atlantic Highly Migratory Species (HMS) Angling permit. This permit has replaced the Atlantic tunas Angling category permit. In North Carolina, additional HMS harvest reporting requirements are also in place. Please Note: Anglers sometimes confuse small king mackerel with Spanish mackerel. King mackerel and spanish mackerel have different size and catch limits. Make SURE you properly identify the mackerel you are catching. (Tips here) A
recreational
Recreational Fishing License goes into effect Jan. 1,
2007 for all of the state's coastal and ocean waters. |
| Headboats: Full/day trips are producing
vermilion snapper, triggerfish, grunts, porgies, and groupers, along
with king mackerel, cobias and amberjacks. Half/day trips are catching
sea bass. CharterBoats: Gulf stream trips produced mostly dolphins last week, but they also caught the yellowfin tunas real good a couple times last week. Some nice wahoo are being brought in as well. Full/day trips are producing king mackerel, grouper, cobia, and amberjack. Inshore and near/shore charters are catching flounder, Spanish mackerel, and a few trout. Private Boats: Not much has changed this week. Stream trips
are still producing dolphin, wahoo and a few tuna. Bottom fishing
remains good for grouper in the 35 to 45 mile range, with some nice
gags coming much closer. There are good numbers of school size kings
on most reefs in the 20 to 30 mile range. Its time for some nicer
fish to start showing up in the river channel and Yaupon reef, along
with cobias. Spanish mackerel are being reported along area beaches,
along with bluefish. Inshore, things are a little slower, but
improving. The flounder are starting to show up. Shallotte Inlet,
Lockwood Folly Inlet, and Carolina Beach Inlet produced some nice fish
last week, along with the Cape Fear River as well. The bays behind
Bald Head Island are producing some trout early in the morning. Shore: Blues, sea mullet, and a few keeper flounder reeled in by the surf fisherman last week. |
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