Affordable Charters Fishing Report

 A few red drum are being caught in the surf & in the back bays. They are very hard to get to bite because of the water temperature so you have to move very slow with your presentation of bait. Catching a few small speckled trout in the Cape Fear River & in the boat basins on artificial bait. In the Cape Fear River up around Wilmington & in the Brunswick River catching some striped bass & some nice size speckled trout. At the mouth of the Cape Fear the spring run of Virginia mullet is just starting using shrimp on bottom rigs.

Hopefully spring has sprung & the water temperature will start rising rapidly which will turn the fishing on a little more. It’s been a long winter but remember until bait shows up like minnows & shrimp fishing will be slow.

Keep fishing & stay safe.

Captain John Carty
Affordable Charters
910 616-3957

Blast from the past: Captain Walter White caught this nice speckled trout last year in the Carolina Beach Inlet.

Blast from the past: Captain Walter White caught & released this nice red drum in the Cape Fear River this past summer.

  

Still catching a few speckled trout, red drum off Masonboro & a few drum around Bald Head Island. Striped bass & catfish being caught up around Wilmington in the Cape Fear River.

The pictures we posted this week show that catching striped bass in snows cut was pretty common. They ranged from 10 to 30 lbs. Back then we called them Rock Fish. The most used lure back then was a wooden red head with white body called a creek chub or large bucktail. Some old timers would brag about cutting a piece off their white t-shirt & hooking it for a lure & catching large Rock Fish. If anyone has old fishing photos they would like published please email those to captaincarty@bellsouth.net.

Keep fishing & stay safe.

Captain John Carty
Affordable Charters
910 616-3957

Blast from the past: This is a photo from 1979 of John Carty with a 17 1/2 lb stripped bass caught in Snows Cut.

Blast from the past: Berry Lucas(The Gray Rider) caught this 19 lb striped bass in 1973 in snows cut.