SE NC Report: good news on everything but specks

Fishing is surely feeling like fall, with lowering h2o temps and concerns about hurricanes seemingly each week. Article Hurricane Irene, the inshore saltwater fishing in Brunswick County has gotten considerably much better.

The very best information is that the massive red drum have proven up out at the Minor River Jetties on time. This is usually a September fishery. It is hard to contact these fish redfish, they are more like the channel bass caught in the winter at the Outer Banking institutions. Red drum 40 inches and up are caught this time of the yr in northern SC.

Major tackle is required for these red drum, each to land them and since you don’t want to use mild tackle considering that it tires the drum out and this is a catch-and-release only fishery. We don’t have these massive ‘channel bass’ all calendar year so now is the time.

Inshore the more compact reds (you can phone these fish redfish, or spot-tail bass) are hitting in the creeks and shallows, running the tide and gorging on the finger mullet and blue crabs. Finger mullet on a fishfinder rig is a spot-on dwell bait. Gulp shrimp and shad bodies on lead heads operate genuinely well for these fish also. I adore to use Fishbites scented paddletails on this measurement redfish.

Fish the very last few several hours of very low tide and the very first few of the rising tide. The only undesirable fishing time for these redfish is the number of hours of high tide, when mullet and crabs are really dispersed and the spot-tails quit feeding.

Flounder are also being caught in first rate numbers for the trollers, drifters, and these anchoring up near construction. Big flounder are out there. The piers have gotten some fat ones far too. Finger mullet or mud minnows on the bottom are ideal now inshore you can catch them on Gulp and Fishbites scented comfortable baits.

If you are passing up the Intracoastal Waterway docks as you speed by them now you are making a mistake. Schools of finger mullet are operating about the docks in the shallows, and blue crabs are gathered there. That helps make them prime flounder and redfish territory proper now. Some of the greatest flounder of the season are waiting underneath people lonely searching docks.

The surf has some good pompano. You really should fish for them with sand fleas although the sand fleas are still all around. In any other case use extremely refreshing lower shrimp. Bear in mind the gold hooks. Huge pompano will even hit tiny gold spoons and shiny little Gotcha plugs.

There are also some bluefish and Spanish mackerel nearshore and off the beach. They are working at the piers occasionally, really unpredictable and not in excellent numbers nevertheless. If you are pier fishing it is challenging to conquer a red-headed Gotcha for the blues and a gold hook rig for the Spanish. This is mostly an early early morning fishery at the piers now, by about nine a.m. the bite really is gone.

The massive disappointment seems a lack of speckled trout. Ideally the bite will enhance as the h2o cools. The winter season kill very last year might have accomplished much more harm than we imagined.

Some sheepshead are getting caught around inshore structure and black drum hit at the same areas at night time. There have been a handful of spot on the piers but they have been silver spot and no ‘yellow-bellies’ nevertheless. We’ll all be viewing for them in the coming weeks.

Also my new e-book “Surf and Inshore Saltwater Fishing in the Carolinas” has just been released. You can find it on Amazon.com by looking “jeffrey weeks fishing.” Extremely complete ebook about Carolina inshore fishing and good priced as properly. A handful of ideas and tales are in there that have not manufactured the columns or reviews.

If the hurricanes keep away this week be a part of me at the MAD 6 event Saturday at Oak Island. They still need some volunteers so go to the MAD site and assist out if you can.