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Regional Saltwater Fishing
Reports
Northern
District Dare, Hyde, Currituck, & Beaufort Counties
Contact: Brian Melott November
12, 2006
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. Tagged
Red Drum:
Download PDF with reward details. |
Charterboats/Private Boats: Anglers fished
the same waters with very similar results. Offshore fishing continued
to yield limits of yellowfin tuna on most trips, and a few very nice
wahoo & dolphin were caught. Billfish catches improved slightly.
Midrange success improved, with nice specimens of king mackerel being
caught about eight miles offshore. Striped bass & red drum were caught
with increased regularity in these same waters. Inshore anglers
continued to primarily target striped bass & spotted seatrout in the
sounds with average-good success on most trips. Striped bass were caught
at Manns Harbor in large numbers, but less than half of them have been
legal size. Oregon Inlet catches of striped bass were slower, but most
of those that were caught 18" and greater. Spotted seatrout catches
continued to improve throughout the sounds with most activity
concentrated at Oregon Inlet’s Green Island Slough during the pre-dawn
to mid-morning hours. Bluefish and flounder were caught in moderate
amounts throughout the area.
Headboats: No trips being booked at present time. Most trips
resume mid-late April.Piers/Shore: Anglers fished the same
waters with very similar results. Bluefish have most prevalent for all
of these anglers, with plenty of small 1-2 lb ones availabl. Red drum
catches were much improved, with more than 50% of them falling into the
legal slot limit. Anglers should concentrate their effort in the
back-wash surf zone as opposed to long distance casting using the
readily available mole crabs,[sand fleas] that are easily dug up at the
waters edge.
General Overview: Water temperatures in the surf on
the Outer Banks remain in the lower 60"s. The weather can make it a
little tougher to get in the fishing this time of year, but there are
still good catches to be had. |
Central
District Pamlico, Craven, Carteret, & Onslow
Counties
Contact: Suzanne Hill November
12, 2006
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.
Tagged Red Drum:
Download PDF with reward details. |
Ocean: Headboat fishing is still strong.
Anglers are having good catches of banded rudderfish, which seem to be
everywhere right now. No matter where the boat moved, the rudderfish
popped up. Boats also had nice gag grouper, sea bass, grunts and red
porgies. There were a few triggers and snappers. Charter boats caught
kings and wahoo. Smaller boats were chasing little tunny, spotted sea
trout and flounder and red drum..
Inshore: Rivers and sounds were speckled with boats
primarily after spotted sea trout. This week many undersized trout were
reported along with nice 2.5 and 3.5-pound fish. Anglers are getting big
pigfish and small spots from the turning basin at the state port.
Flounder are being caught around Shackleford. Red drum are still out
there. Striped bass (small) are reported at Cherry Point and Pamlico
and Beaufort counties. Fishing is still good at the local hot spots-
Cape Lookout, Newport River, Beaufort Inlet, Bogue Inlet, Bear Island.
Piers/Shore: Bluefish, kingfish, puffers, were
caught. |
Southern
District Pender, New Hanover, & Brunswick Counties
Contact: Dennis Trowell November
12, 2006
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.
Tagged Red Drum:
Download PDF with reward details. |
| Ocean: It was too rough most of the week
to venture too far offshore. Friday and Saturday were nice and boats
reported king mackerel in the 30-mile range, and good grouper fishing in
the 35 to 45-mile range. I did not hear of any gray trout reports but
there should be some around the near-shore reefs.
Sounds/Bays/Inlets: The speckled trout bite slowed last week
due to muddy water conditions from the wind and rain earlier in the
week. Fishing improved towards the end of the week. Riches, Mason's, and
Masonboro inlets all produced fish when the conditions were right. Along
with the trout there are some drum and a few flounders as well.
Piers/Shore: For the most part fishing was slow. High surf, and
muddy water conditions made fishing difficult. There have been some good
trout and drum catches in the surf when water conditions are right.
Piers saw much the same, with the exception of the good sea mullet
fishing taking place on the ends of most piers. |
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