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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 has moderated somewhat
with limits of yellowfin tuna & dolphin being caught. Wahoo, king mackerel,
and a few billfish have been caught offshore as well. Midrange catches
continue to be good with tautog, black seabass, blueline tilefish, king
mackerel, and grouper being most prevalent. Headboats: Fishing has been fair with some nice catches of keeper flounder. Others being caught include spotted seatrout, kingfish, croaker, pigfish, and bluefish. Private Boats: Catches similar to charter boats with the exception of smaller flat-bottom boats being able to access the very shallow waters near the small islands at Oregon Inlet and catch nice specimens of flounder. Spotted seatrout, bluefish, kingfish, croaker, spot, Spanish mackerel, and a mixed bag of others have been caught. Piers: Fishing on piers continues to be one extreme or the other. Limits of spotted seatrout have been caught at dawn & dusk along with plenty of bluefish for short-term blitzes, other times next to nothing is caught. Anglers should give it a try and hope to be there when the fish are biting. Shore: Catches similar to piers with those dawn & dusk catches of spotted seatrout being caught in the nearby surf zone. Nice-sized cobia were caught in the surf, along with a few bluefish & Spanish mackerel. Red drum were caught with moderate success from Avon southward. General Overview: Water temps have been up & down, changing up to 12° in 24hrs making fishing quite unpredictable |
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Central District Pamlico, Craven, Carteret, & Onslow
Counties Contact: Suzanne Hill June 25 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 is hot like the weather.
Vermilion snapper of 1 pound or more are being caught along with nice red
grouper. We are seeing gag grouper, big white grunts, black sea bass and
gray triggers. All fish are fat. Light liners are catching dolphin.
Half-day trips are targeting black sea bass, porgies and whatever happens to
swim by.
CharterBoats: Anglers are bringing in kings and dolphin. There are lots of reports of sailfish and marlin being caught and released. Private Boats: Tarpon are reported in Pamlico Sound. Large red drum were also caught - one weighing 9 pounds. Black drum, nice flounder and spotted seatrout from 12 to 16 inches long were brought in. Kings can be found at AR315 and North West Places is covered up with them. Christmas Rock and Buoy 14 have dolphin from 12 inches up to 5 feet. There are nice red drum in the Newport River along with flounder and croakers. Bear Island down by Swansboro is surrounded by red drum. Bluefish and flounder were reported around Bogue Inlet. Sheepshead were caught at the state port. Spanish are along the beaches. Piers/Shore: Small Spanish, flounder, bluefish and croakers were hooked. |
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Southern District Pender, New Hanover, & Brunswick Counties Contact: Dennis Trowell June 25 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 did well on the
groupers last week. Vermilion snapper, grunts, porgies, triggerfish, and an
assortment of other bottom fish were brought to the docks. CharterBoats: Full/day trips are producing the best right now. They are catching a little of every thing. grouper, king mackerel, and dolphin just to name a few. Half-day trips were somewhat slow last week. Inshore charters reported fair amounts of flounder, along with some drum, and a few trout. Private Boats: Not much to report from the stream, scattered
dolphin and that’s about it. There was a good king mackerel bite down south
around the jungle area, and the 410/510. I also heard of some big fish
around the 30/30. There are scattered dolphin in the 10 to 20 mile range,
with most fish being gaffers. Bottom fishing was excellent in the 35 to 45
mile range for big red, scamp, and gag groupers. Inshore, flounder fishing
remains somewhat slow. There are a few nice fish being caught, but not what
it should be this time of year. There are some decent trout catches still
taking place, mostly from ocean isle south to the little river rock jetty.
Live shrimp is the bait of choice. |
