North Carolina’s Spotted Seatrout fishery will reopen to recreational and commercial harvest in joint and coastal waters on July 1, 2025, following a cold stun closure. Upon reopening of the […]

Lewis, of Island Tackle and Hardware, reports that inshore anglers are catching flounder everywhere. It seems that any live or artificial bait near the bottom will get strikes. Red drum, […]
NOAA Fisheries issued a final rule in mid-June on Amendment 59 to the Fishery Management Plan for the Snapper-Grouper Fishery of the South Atlantic that largely avoids draconian management measures […]

While I could have written this issue’s Tidelines column about successful topwater fishing for red drum with good friend Capt. Daniel Griffee, of On Deck Charters out of the Morehead […]
A senator representing five Piedmont counties has introduced an amendment to a House bill that, if it becomes law, will prohibit shrimp trawling in all of North Carolina’s inland waters […]