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NC Coastal Fishing Continues To Improve.

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The Fall blitz along our coast is really getting ramped up, and with cooler weather coming in this weekend, it will only get better! Now's the time, guys, so come on down and get in on the action. Spotted seatrout, red drum, flounder, stripers and everything else
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will be chewing for the next four to six weeks.


 
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#2 ·
This is going to be my last post here. Thought I'd leave you with some catch info I learned today. The major bite down there right now is spotted seatrout, including many citation sized fish.
Don't forget good striper fishing is right around the corner.
Just hope my posts over the last few years have been helpful to all of you

that made it down here to fish. I enjoyed my time here on the site and met some really great folks.
Take care of yourselves, and good fishing!
 
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The Fall blitz along our coast is really getting ramped up, and with cooler weather coming in this weekend, it will only get better! Now's the time, guys, so come on down and get in on the action. Spotted seatrout, red drum, flounder, stripers and everything else View attachment 248018 View attachment 248018 will be chewing for the next four to six weeks.


Heading for Ocracoke in a week
 
#16 ·
Jerry. Apparently we left too soon..More from Topsail.
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I/ WE always leave too soon!
Same deal last year,,,, 'catching' was stupid crazy the last day,,, Hook-up every cast!
This year
I Didn't get to fish the backwaters for reds,,,
Didn't get to night gig for flounder,,,,,
Didn't get to 'crab', net shrimp, snorkel for crabs & clams,,,, night fish for sharks.
DIDN'T even take the BOAT,,,,,
Nobody else there to fish with! :<( :<( :<(

I need a month, not a week,,,,,,,,,,,,
 
#17 ·
Hey Jer,,, do me a favor?
I talked to a girl who was snorkeling a cove, who came out of the water with a VERY NICE bag FULL of clams,,,, & a BIG smile on her face!
Is there a season, bag & size limit on them?
(I figured that you just might know off-hand?)
 
#21 ·
My parents were there last week . Said it was on fire . Lots of flounder , although most were short . They caught alot of pompano and sea mullet .

Jerry , did you feel awkward asking to see her clams ?
omg,,, Crack me up! Pert-near choked on my coffee!
Ahhh NO! Matter-a-fact
She 'easily' approached ME, & donated that info,,,,, & like I said,,,, with a VERY nice smile on her face!
 
#22 ·
What you said, NCbassattack,,, "Later".

I wanted to go later,,,,, like last year,,,,, but as you know, wifeee had the first week off. (I really didn't want to leave her behind,,,, she COOKS too good! :)
AND NOW, did you realize that there HASN'T been a hurricane hit down there since we left!?
& EVERYTHING IS as it should be!

IF I can get more fishermen to go, I'll rent the same place again,,,, later in the month.
I'd still have to check the NC MOON FAZE & tide calendar first.
I would love 2 weeks,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,
 
#23 ·
Just returned from a week long camping/surf fishing trip to OBX...never found any specs, and really didn't light the world on fire. Several short flounder, bunch of small pompano, some pin fish, a blow toad, even caught a needle fish on a live finger mullet. Most important thing I caught this trip...was my wife! She hadn't camped with me for yrs, and had only ever fished the ocean on blue water from a charter a couple times. She is now HOOKED :)

And here was her unique catch of the trip, called a Northern Star Gazer. She caught this chuckin' as stingsilver at some biter blues that were busting finger mullet within casting distance of the beach not 60yds from our campsite. She grabbed a rod and booked it down there only to come back with this thing:

 
#26 ·
Yep...learned all that when I got home. Handled it carfully since it was an unknown species for me. I guess there is a big population of them in the deeper parts of the Chesapeake Bay... and the NC coast is the Southern end of their range.
 
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