North Myrtle Beach August 13, 2009
Colton Gschwandtner (age 11), from Little River, with a king caught at AR-376 while trolling a dead cigar minnow. He was fishing on the "Hot Pursuit."
Mark, of Shallow Minded Fishing Charters, reports that anglers are hooking up with a mixed bag catch while fishing Little River Inlet. Live finger mullet and shrimp fished on the bottom in the inlet have been attracting attention from some gray trout, black drum, red drum, whiting, and other species, and the rising tides have been best lately.
Lower tides have been producing excellent action in the backwaters, where anglers are fishing deeper potholes to hook up with red and black drum. Live shrimp on light Mission Fishin’ jigheads are attracting attention from both drum.
The Sunset Beach Bridge is producing action with some flounder, but the bite has been sporadic. Live finger mullet on Carolina rigs will fool the flatties when they commit to feeding.
Some striped bass and large red drum (30”+) have been feeding around docks and other inshore structure past the freshwater demarcation line around Little River and Barefoot Landing. Anglers are hooking both fish on live shrimp and pogies, but you need a freshwater license in order to fish the waters where they’re feeding.
This 34.6 lb. king mackerel fell for a naked pogy in 65' of water while John and Jack Volinsky and Henry, Will, and David Biermann were on a charter out of the Ocean Isle Fishing Center with Capt. Brant McMullan on the "OIFC World Cat."
Patrick, of Capt. Smiley’s Fishing Charters, reports that the bite’s been on one day and off the next inshore in the area, but anglers have still been able to put together some solid catches over the past week.
Drifting in Little River Inlet with live and fresh dead shrimp on Carolina rigs has been attracting attention from a wide variety of fish, including bonnethead sharks, whiting, bluefish, red drum, croakers, ladyfish, and more.
Creek mouths, docks, and other structure off the ICW have been producing action with red and black drum, and both are falling for live shrimp on split-shot rigs, float rigs, and light jigheads.
Speckled trout and white perch are feeding around Sunset Beach Bridge, and they’re also taking an interest in live shrimp.
Mullet Creek has been holding trout and good numbers of flounder lately, too, and casting shrimp to deeper holes and grass edges in the creek will attract their attention.
Mike, of Cherry Grove Pier, reports that anglers are catching some large black drum (over the 27” maximum size limit) on live shrimp. A few reds and speckled trout are also falling for the shrimp.
There’s been an excellent flounder bite lately, with shrimp and live finger mullet fooling the flatties.
Plug casters have been hooking a few small bluefish on Gotchas.
The water is 84 degrees.
