Wrightsville Beach June 22,2006
Chris, at Tex’s Tackle, reports inshore flounder are hitting live baits in the inlets and creeks, and the bite should get even better as the water cleans up.
Redfish are hanging out along docks in the waterway and in the area creeks. There have also been a few caught in the surf.
The sheepshead should be around bridge pilings eating fiddler crabs and mussels.
Nearshore, the water has been very dirty, so there hasn’t been much of a spanish or bluefish bite. The water cleans up about 15 miles out, and that’s where cobia are being caught. They are also finding some king mackerel and dolphin starting in this area, with the better and more consistent bite at the 23 Mile Rock area.
Amberjacks are thick on the Schoolhouse Wreck and WR-4.
Bottom fishing has been good for grouper in the 20 to 30 mile range.
And dolphin have been the main catch from the gulf stream, with the occasional report of a billfish or wahoo.
Jot, at Fortune Hunter Charters, reports a good sheepshead bite inshore using fiddler crabs. A few black drum have been caught mixed in as well. Bridges and pilings are the best spots to try for them.
Redfish are biting fairly well inshore on live baits, with a few also showing on the beach.
The flounder fishing has been sporadic in the creeks and waterway. The inlet bite has been even slower.
Along the beach the spanish are still around and biting when the water cleans up. The cleaner water has been to the north of Wrightsville.
Kings are biting nearshore, with good water starting in the 7-mile range.
Mike, at Corona Daze Charters, reports good drum fishing this week, with the majority of the fish coming on topwaters in the ICW.
The flounder have been chewing as well. You can expect to catch several fish inside the creeks, and a few bigger fish are coming on the nearshore structure on live menhaden.
Matt, at Johnnie Mercer’s Pier, reports that spot and whiting are biting on shrimp at night.
Some legal sized flounder are being caught, and they’re hitting on mud minnows and mullet.
Spanish mackerel and bluefish are hitting plugs, with most of the spanish coming in the evening.
No king mackerel were weighed this week, but those trying caught a 27 lb. cobia and several barracuda.
