Little River June 14, 2007
Mark, of Shallow Minded Guide Fishing, reports that rising tides in the mornings have been a productive time for trout at the Sunset Beach Bridge. Live shrimp are the best trout baits, but a ½ oz. Billy Bay Halo Shrimp will get trout bites, too.
Some flounder are coming from Tubbs Inlet and the Cherry Grove area. A Carolina-rigged live bait is the ticket to hooking up with flounder.
Red drum are holding at the Little River Jetties, and they will pounce on a finger mullet or peanut pogy fished near the rocks on a three way swivel rig.
Spadefish are schooled up at the Jim Caudle Reef and the Sherman. While cannonball jellies still aren’t around for spadefish baits, anglers can tempt the fish to eat squid or peeled shrimp on small hooks. The spades at the Caudle are running 2-3 lbs., while the Sherman is hosting fish in the 4-7 lb. class.
King mackerel are moving into their traditional summertime haunts, and boats have found good numbers of kings at the 90/90 and the Jungle.
Patrick, of Capt. Smiley’s Fishing Charters, reports good trout fishing at ICW spots such as the Sunset Beach Bridge. A live shrimp on a #6 treble hook fished beneath a float is the premiere trout bait, but anglers are also hooking up with trout on chartreuse ½ oz. D.O.A. Shrimp. The trout are feeding actively and a fast retrieve with sharp twitching has been the way to get strikes on the D.O.A. shrimp. Anglers are landing trout from 13” up to 5+ lbs.
Anglers are also catching sheepshead, black drum, and red drum on shrimp in the ICW.
Red drum and bluefish are feeding heavily at the Little River Jetties. Target the drum and blues by fishing live shrimp under floats, or go with mud minnows and peanut pogies on Carolina rigs.
Larry, of Cherry Grove Pier, reports that bottom fishermen are catching huge numbers of 3-5 lb. black drum. The drum are hitting shrimp on bottom rigs, and several days last week saw more than a hundred caught.
Keeper flounder are biting mud minnows and other live baits fished on the bottom.
Plug casters are decking plenty of live bait sized bluefish and a few spanish mackerel.
A 22 lb. king mackerel was caught on a live bait last week.
The water temperature is 75 degrees.
