Tidelines: Notes from the Publisher’s desk

If Plan A doesn’t work out, you want a captain that has a Plan B. Then if Plan B doesn’t work out, you really want a captain with a Plan […]

The inshore guides on Hatteras Island didn’t need a flounder closure to push them into chasing speckled trout, as the slow red drum bite all season already had them targeting […]

If you close flounder, then that means Capt. Luke Donat, of Spot On Charters out of the Carolina Beach area, will just have to target speckled trout prior to mid-October. […]

The plan with Capt. Luke Moser, of Coastline Charters out of the Wrightsville and Carolina Beach areas, was to get in one last day of flounder fishing before the closure. […]

The vote has come in, and flounder is anticipated to be closed by proclamation around September 4. The history of North Carolina fisheries management has taught us that nothing is […]