Wrightsville Beach, NC; Summer Fishing-Flounder, Tarpon and Redfish Report
Flounder has been the winner for me in the last few weeks, my customers have caught a handful of extremely good Flounder lately and the bigger Flounder are hitting synthetic baits! I have found most of the Flounder just off the beach on difficult bottoms, ledges, around the neighborhood inlets and docks in the ICW. The Flounder are even now blended in size, but there are some extremely wonderful Flounder starting up to mix in with the throw backs. I have always been a live bait guy when it arrives to Flounder, but allow me tell you my clients have caught some large Flounder in the last couple of weeks on artificial baits.
Barkley Gulp and Gulp Alive Jerkshad are truly placing some great Flounder in my boat for my consumers! I am rigging these five inch Gulp Jerkshad on 1/4oz, three/8ox and 1/2oz jig heads I use forty pound mono or fluorocarbon as leader. The hues I choose for the Jerkshads are pearl, chart pepper neon, new penny and root beer gold. If you would rather go the live bait root, try reside baits like mud minnows, finger mullets or little menhaden. Rig these dwell baits on Carolina rigs with Eagle Claw L42 #1 and one/ hook dimensions.
The Redfish action has been a tiny slower with all the warm air and heat water temps, but Im catching a hand entire in the early mornings with a minor sufferers. Working scented baits like Berkley Gulp slowly along grass financial institutions and docks has labored the best for me recently. A new Berkley bait that is just obtaining in to shops now has been very great for me on the Redfish the baits are the Berkley Hearth Tail a few inch Shrimp. These are great hunting baits with excellent action and in proven coloration patterns! The hues I have had the very best luck with are the rootbeer gold/chart, new penny/chart and cajun purple/chart rigging these shrimp on jigs heads in measurements 1/8oz and 1/4oz weights. Thirty of forty pound mono or a far better selection fluorocarbon for leader when casting grubs/jigs for Redfish. Tip: when drinking water temps are up try to perform your jig a bit slower for the Redfish who wishes to run in hot climate?
Spanish Mackerel are hitting quite excellent most days just off the beach in twenty to fifty ft of water, just seem for the bait on your fish finder and you are positive to catch some Spanish Macks! Ive had the finest luck with deeper spoons on range one planners, indeed Im viewing a handful of on the top line but the greatest has been deeper. Clark-spoons in dimensions 00 and are performing the trick in hues silver, gold and pink flash. The Spanish hitting the leading baits are hitting Blue Water Candys Spanish Daisy chains in colors pink, blue and silver the great thing about this rig is you can pull it off lighter tackle outfits. When the Spanish are jumping Im casting spoons in measurements 1 to 3 inches lengthy with a fast retrieve and trying to keep my rod tip reduced to the h2o to keep the spoon just underneath the surface. Tip: most of the Spanish Im obtaining are in the cleaner and clearer waters off the seaside.
Im starting to see the 1st push of Tarpon heading up the coast, final week we jumped off about a seventy pound Tarpon just off Masonboro inlet.
Tarpon fishing in North Carolina can be really exciting, but it can be a challenge to get a single to bite! I fish for Tarpon on the bottom or free lining, making use of reside and fresh dead baits like spots, bluefish and Menhaden. Im rigging these baits on fish finder rigs, with 3 to 5 feet of eighty to 100 pound mono leaders. Circle hooks are the greatest bet for excellent hook ups and landings for Tarpon in hook dimensions seven/ to ten/ depending what hook series/maker you like. I have also had a truthful share of Tarpon on my kite rig with stay baits like mullets, bluefish and menhaden. Maintain your eyes peeled for rolling and feeding Tarpon if youre in the hunt for one of these beasts.
Fishing Gear I use:
Reels Penn Battle spinning in sizes 2000, 3000 & 4000 dimensions. Tarpon Fishing reels: Penn Battle 6000 & 7000, Penn 320LD and Torque twelve & 15. Line: Spiderwire Ultra-cast and Berkley Fireline braid in 8, ten and 15 pound. Tarpon Line: 30 or 40 pound Berkley Massive Sport Mono. Rods: Fenwick HMG GS 70M-MF. Tarpon Rods: Unsightly Stik Tiger Lite Jigging collection or Penn Toarque jigging collection in 50-one hundred class spinning and casting. Leader content: Tarpon Berkley Large Sport mono & Fluorocarbon in eighty to a single hundred pound. Stren Fluorocarbon leader materials in Tannic and Gunsmoke tints tannic for river and stained waters, gunsmoke for obvious water apps.
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