| 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) Lionfish Alert: Please visit our lionfish information A recreational Saltwater Fishing License goes into effect Jan. 1, 2006 for all of the state's coastal and ocean waters. For more information on this license please view this fact sheet. . |
| Charterboats:
Limits of twenty to forty pound yellowfin tuna have been taken this
week. Inshore striped bass have arrived.
Headboats:Closed for season. Private Boats:Striper fishing both in Manns Harbor and Oregon Inlet has been good. Stripers have been caught by small boats at Hatteras. Piers:A good number of small puppy drum and speckled trout were reeled in this week. Some black drum and a few flounder were caught as well. Shore: Several striped bass were caught by beach anglers, along with puppy drum and bluefish. Specks have been taken in the deeper sloughs. |
| Central
District Pamlico, Craven, Carteret, & Onslow
Counties Contact: Suzanne Hill November 21, 2004 For the 2004 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) Lionfish Alert: Please visit our lionfish information A recreational Saltwater Fishing License goes into effect Jan. 1, 2006 for all of the state's coastal and ocean waters. For more information on this license please view this fact sheet. |
| Headboats:
No report this week.
CharterBoats:Rough seas kept boats in almost all week. Those that went out did well catching Kings. Private Boats: Black Drum in the mouth of the Newport River. Pigfish, bluefish, sea mullet, spotted seatrout, flounder and small spot in the Turning basin of the Port. Red drum off the beaches from Shackleford to the Cape and around the jetty at the Cape. Kings in Northwest places. Spotted seatrout in Hoophole Creek, Bogue Sound, Bear Island, Browns Inlet , the Intracoastal waterway, around all bridges and down the beaches. Grouper, black seabass, snapper and triggers 2 miles South east of the Knuckle Buoy. A 27" red drum was caught on AR 315. An 18 pound king was caught in the Beaufort Inlet. Piers/Shore: Seatrout, flounder, black drum, pigfish, shark, sea mullet and bluefish are being caught just about everywhere. |
| Southern
District Pender, New Hanover, & Brunswick Counties Contact: Dennis Trowell November 21, 2004 For the 2004 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) Lionfish Alert: Please visit our lionfish information A recreational Saltwater Fishing License goes into effect Jan. 1, 2006 for all of the state's coastal and ocean waters. For more information on this license please view this fact sheet. |
| Headboats:Nice
weather allowed for boats to make it offshore last week. Vermilion
snapper, triggerfish, grunts, porgies, groupers, and amberjacks were
brought to the docks.
CharterBoats:Very nice weather last week, but very few charters were run due to lack of fisherman. The stream is still producing wahoo's, along with some scattered tunas, mostly blackfins, and some king mackerels. Full/day trips are yielding limits of king mackerels and some good catches of groupers, and half/day charters are doing very well with the gray trout, and inshore charters are catching some speckled trout and red drum. Private Boats: Offshore, some wahoo's were caught in the stream, along with a few tunas. Lots of school size king mackerel 20 to 35 mile range this week. 23 mile rock, wr4, NE of 23 mile rock produced lots of mackerel last week. Inshore, there is some trout showing up at the jetties at Wrightsville, and a few around Riches Inlet. There are also some showing up in Brunswick county as well. The Holden Beach area and the Sunset Beach Bridge has been producing some fish. There are some gray trout off the Fort Fisher Monument and there still are a few flounder on the near/shore reefs. Piers/Shore: The main fish being fished for off area piers are sea mullets right now. Johnny Mercers Pier saw very good runs of bluefish all last week. There are some drum, both species, and a few flounder as well being caught. Surf fisherman caught mostly sea mullets last week, but there are some drum being caught as well. |
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