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4/30/2007
Regional Saltwater Fishing Reports
Northern
District Dare, Hyde, Currituck, & Beaufort Counties
Contact: Brian Melott April
29, 2007
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 went into effect Jan. 1, 2007
for all of the state's coastal and ocean waters. Tagged
Red Drum:
Download PDF with reward details. |
Ocean: Offshore anglers continue to catch
yellowfin, blackfin, & bigeye tuna. Bluefin tuna catches have dropped
off quite a bit. Dolphin & wahoo catches increased this previous week
with a few 40-pound and greater size dolphin being caught. Midrange
fishermen are catching moderate amounts of triggerfish, tautog, black
seabass, blueline tilefish, and a few snowy grouper. King mackerel have
shown up in these same waters, many of them being very large specimens.
Near-shore success is slow with marginal improvement. Bluefish in the
1-3 lb range are being caught, with a few kingfish & puffers mixed in.
Inlets/Sounds/Bays: Activity levels in these waters remain low
even on favorable weather days. Anglers caught spotted seatrout at
Green Island Slough near the south side of the Oregon Inlet Bridge.
Catches of striped bass, croakers, spot, kingfish, puffers, and a mixed
bag of others improved.
Piers/Shore: Anglers fished the same waters with similar
results. Bluefish and kingfish were the primary catch of these anglers,
and with a few puffers, dogfish sharks, spot, and croakers. Red drum
catches at Cape Point were very good at times, but there were also times
when anglers didn’t catch any.
General Overview: Favorable weather conditions have
allowed anglers to try their luck in all modes of fishing this week with
improved success. Fishing success has been one extreme or the other,
especially in pier/shore mode. Anglers that were patient caught an
assortment of fish just by putting the time in and playing the law of
averages. Water temp in the Ocean (Kill Devil Hills) continues to be in
the mid-upper 50s. Weather conditions are predicted favorable for the
coming week. |
Central
District Pamlico, Craven, Carteret, & Onslow
Counties
Contact: Suzanne Hill April
29, 2007
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 went into effect Jan. 1, 2007
for all of the state's coastal and ocean waters.
Tagged Red Drum:
Download PDF with reward details. |
Ocean: Headboats are coming in with nice
snapper, grouper, triggers, black sea bass and porgies. Charter boats
are catching yellowfin, black fin, wahoo and dolphin. We hear there
are schools of bluefish at Cape Lookout.
Inlets/Sounds/Bays: Fishing in the inside waters is still a
little slow. Red drum, sea trout and some kingfish and small blues have
been hooked in the Intracoastal Waterway, Newport River, Turning basin
of the port and around Shackleford Banks. We measured several weakfish
over 1.5 pounds and a spotted seatrout that was 2.5 pounds. This
fish came in at Seagate Marina and was caught in the Intracoastal
Waterway.
Piers/Shore: No report. |
Southern
District Pender, New Hanover, & Brunswick Counties
Contact: Dennis Trowell April
29, 2007
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 went into effect Jan. 1, 2007
for all of the state's coastal and ocean waters.
Tagged Red Drum:
Download PDF with reward details. |
| Ocean: Offshore, boats are doing well in
the gulf stream. Boats are still catching some nice wahoo. I know of
several fish that weighted over 80 pounds last week, along with some
tuna and dolphin. The water is really warming up fast and the king
mackerel are moving closer to the beach. There were kings reported
around the tower and the twenty-three mile rock area. I would not be
surprised if the Oak Island piers see their first king of the year
caught this weekend. The cobia should be showing along the Brunswick
County beaches and in the river channel in the next week or so. I hear
the bait is down there so we will see.
Inlets/Sounds/Bays: Fishing is somewhat slow still. The best
fishing seems to be in Brunswick County right now. There was a 9-pound
flounder caught out of Lockwood Folly River last weekend. Speckled trout
and flounder are also biting around the swing bridge at Sunset Beach
Bridge and there are scattered reports of both being caught around
Southport and the Buzzards Bay area.
Piers/Shore: Fishing has been hampered from the strong south
winds that have been blowing in the afternoons. Both modes of fishing
are catching sea mullets, blues, and some early season pompano's. |
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