ProFishNC Charters Spring Fishing is HERE!

ProFishNC Charters Spring Fishing Charters update and Fishing Report 3/28/15

Whats Happening Right Now: Our water temperatures are climbing every day and and are currently at 59-60 degrees (perfect fishing temps for Black Seabass, Tautog, Porgies and a variety of Sharks! The Red Drum are feeding as well and can be target in the surf zones right now. The Black Drum are lurking inshore in the docks, inlets and backwaters looking for an easy meal. This time of year I target/ Fish for Black Drum with clams and shrimp. The bigger Seabass are moving back into the 3-5 mile range again (from the 10 mile range). I am targeting the larger Black Seabass using glow jigs that imitate squid and bouncing them on the ledges and around our many nearshore shipwrecks and reefs. Using good ‘ol cut bait/ squid or bait shrimp will catch any and all sized Seabass right now! On our Topsail Beach, NC Fishing Charters we are catching the Big Porgies which were here in numbers last week in the 5 mile range (they are a very tasty and rarely fished for “treat” we catch this time of early spring).

The Spanish Mackerel will be here very soon; however, first comes the Atlantic Bonito (the edible variety of Tuna!). The Atlantic bonito will here in a week or so and will be fun top water and sight fishing action!

Note: We fish all of our area beaches including Topsail Beach, Wrightsville Beach, Carolina Beach, Figure Eight Island and Wilmington, NC Fishing Charters.

Your Fishing Options: Inshore the Flounder are moving in fast and the Giggers are racking them up. The Black and Red Drum are feeding inshore, though they are still a little lethargic. (honestly though, give it another two weeks for better action). Around April 10 – 15 the Inshore Fishing Turns on light a LIGHT! We will have the Big Bluefish (8-20 lbs) show up inshore along with hungry Drum and Flounder.

Nearshore/ Offshore: Right now the best game in town is Bottom Fishing in 45-75 feet of water. I am using glow squid jigs (tipped with squid) and cut bait and live bait (caught with sabiki rig) on 7/0 Circle hooks and just enough weight to get it down to the bottom. On our upcoming Wrightsville Beach, NC Fishing Charters we will be fishing MANY sight fishing trips for Atlantic Bonito, Spanish Mackerel and King Mackerel coming up in the next few weeks and going through the end of May. If you have never casted to a breaking/ feeding/ busting school of tuna or mackerel 3 miles off the beach on light tackle, you need to give it a try.

Dolphin Sight Seeing Trips! We are blessed to have such a great migration of Dolphins in our are that we at ProFishNC Charters are now offering Dolphin Sight Seeing Charters for our guests. This week was exceptionally great as this Dolphin Pod was about 3 miles offshore containing at least 500 Dolphin and they let us PET THEM!

Note: We are booking up exceptionally fast this season (especially for sight fishing Bonito/ April 15-May30) and recommend booking your fishing charter sooner than in previous years… I guess the cold winter has anglers needing some fishing therapy!

Feel Free to call me anytime to discuss your fishing options!

Tight-Lines and hope to fish with You soon!

Capt. Trev Smith

ProFishNC Charters

Wrightsville Beach Winter Fishing

ProFishNC Charters Winter Fishing Update 1/27/2015

I want to update everyone on Winter Fishing Carters as many anglers don’t know the fishing opportunities this time of year of either Offshore Bottom-Fishing or Cape Fear River Striped Bass Fishing!

Winter Ocean Bottom-Fishing Charters:

If Black Seabass is on your bucket list or dinner menu, you are in luck as they are currently very thick on every ledge, reef and rock within the 5 mile range (and big ones too!). If the conditions are right, we catch limits of Black Seabasss on many of our winter bottom-fishing charters (they are really that prevalent right now).

We do a lot of bottom-fishing charters in the winter months due to the productivity of the Black Seabass, Reef Complex Species and Green Eye Sharks a/k/a spiny dogfish a/k/a the most used fish in the traditional “Fish and Chips” recipe.

Cape Fear River Striped Bass Fishing Charters:

The Cape Fear River offers some of the best Striped Bass Fishing in NC during the winter time months. Many days we catch over 10 stripers on a 1/2 day fishing charter. Stripers in the Cape Fear River feed on both dead bait, live bait and artificial baits thus on our trips we fish many tactics until we dial in the feeding pattern for the day.

Fishing Forecast:

The river and nearshore bottom fishing will continue to be strong and the best fishing in our area until spring when the bait migration moves up our coast!

Give me a call and lets go fishing this winter!

Tight-lines,

Capt Trev

ProFishNC Charters

(910) 547-0000

Wilmington NC Winter Fishing Charters

ProFishNC Charters December Fishing Charter Update and Fishing Forecast

Our Cape Fear River Fishing Charters are Hot right now and will be going through April. We are catching Big Red Drum, Striped Bass, Trout and even Catfish that will give any angler a great time and good eats. Many of our Local and Repeat Fishing Charter Clients choose to fish the Cape Fear River this time of year as its hard to beat the action.
Saltwater Fishing: Fall Fishing has been GREAT this year with hundreds of Speckled Trout, Drum and Flounder caught inshore: Offshore/ Nearshore we have caught hundreds of Black Seabass, Flounder and Big Fall Grouper!

Fishing Forecast: We have BIG Taugog and Black Seabass at the Wrightsville Beach Jetty right now and they will continue to be here through the end of February.

Back this year by “popular demand”: ProFishNC Charters Christmas Fishing Charter Gift Certificates (right now we only have 15 left!). Just give me a call and I will get the Fishing Gift Certificates before Christmas if ordered by December 22^nd.

Our Spring Fishing Charters are booking up quicker than ever so be sure to book your 2015 Spring trip soon to ensure you get the dates you want. We offer Fishing Charters in many of our coastal beaches including, Wrightsville Beach Fishing Charters, Topsail Beach Fishing Charters, Surf City Fishing Charters, Wilmington Fishing Charters, Figure Eight Island Fishing Charters and Carolina Beach Fishing Charters.

Have a Merry Christmas and don’t forget to take the Family Fishing in 2015!

-Capt Trev

ProFishNC Charters

(910) 547-0000

Fall Fishing is HOT

ProFishNC Charters Fall Fishing Charters update.

First off I want to say THANK YOU to the many repeat clients that we fished with again this season! We truly enjoy getting to know YOU better, continuing the fishing relationship and making memories year after year.

What a great start to Fall Fishing Charters in Wrightsville Beach, Topsail Beach, Carolina Beach and Wilmington! Our Fishing Charters have been producing lots of action, fun and fish. The water temperature here on the NC coast is 66 degrees and is slowly falling which is perfect for our Speckled Trout season. We have landed many “gator” trout in the past few weeks along with nice big flounder, redfish, false albacore tuna, sharks, spanish mackerel and king mackerel. Its pretty much GAME ON for FISHING right now going through the end November (and believe it or not… we catch many large Seabass, Drum, Flounder and Trout in December).

We provide Year Around Fishing Charters in all of our charter fishing locations including Wilmington Fishing Charters for big Striped Bass in the Cape Fear River. The Striped Bass Fishing is EPIC in the winter months! Book your Cape Fear River Charter Fishing trip early as the prime weekend Fishing Charter times book up quick.

Back by Demand: WE are offering Fishing Charter Gift Certificates for the upcoming holidays! Just give me a call and I will send one your way to give as the perfect “gift for later” to look forward to!

For all of our Topsail Beach Fishing Trips check out our new Topsail Beach Fishing Charters Website.

Give me a call and lets go Fishin’!

Capt. Trev

ProFishNC Charters

(910) 547-0000

Summer Fishing: HOW to Catch Fish: ProFishNC Charters

ProFishNC Charters Fishing Report 9/7/14

Summer Fishing Report, Fishing Methods and Early Fall Fishing Forecast

Captain Trevor Smith

(Picture: Chris with a Barracuda that fell for a live pogie on one of our Wrightsville Beach Fishing Trips.)

2014 Summer Fishing Synopsis

In short: Summer fishing this year was great with many days catching limits of fish and steady action “catching”.

Lets start with the weather and how it influenced the summer fishing season, fish movements, patterns and feeding habits.

Summer 2014 was an above average year for rainfall; in turn, slowing the inshore fishing activity (for many anglers) due to big fluxes in salinity and turbidity levels. Red Drum, Speckled Trout and Baitfish are more affected by these changes and push toward the mouth of the nearest inlet to up the salinity to comfortable levels. On the other hand, Flounder are more tolerate of the turbidity and salinity changes, thus not as affected by the rain water “washouts”; however, like most fish they follow the food source (baitfish). If the washout is dramatic and the baitfish move out for more than 8 tide cycles (2 days), you will find most of the flounder near the mouths of the inlets as well. There were many days this summer with washout conditions; however, we continued to stay on the fish by following the fish tendencies due to weather. A few more patterns I have noticed fishing washout conditions is the inshore fish (Drum, Trout, Flounder) will take natural bait on more occasions than presenting artificial bait. I honestly don’t know why this is but if it works stick with it! Just like fresh water fishing, after a rain the bite is HOT! After a good summer rain shower or storm has passed… go to your “go to” spots immediately. On many days this tactic will produce fish on otherwise slower days do to the intrinsically programmed need to feed in the fishes DNA (weather it’s the change in pressure or just an instinct to feed due to an impending change in water chemistry… I dunno J). Offshore the washout rain conditions muddy the water (sometimes for miles and miles out) thus pushing many fish toward the cleaner water. Find the clean water and find the fish! (Picture: This a a very nice Spanish Mackerel that was caught on one of our Carolina Beach Fishing Trips that fell for a deep diver.)

Summer Fishing Tactics & Tips:

During our summer season we landed thousands of fish! Below is an outline in short of a few of our successful methods this year.

(Picture: These two Cobia were caught on one of our Topsail Beach Fishing Trips in the 6 mile range that fell for live baits.)

-Always have a large live bait on a balloon rig and on the bottom at all times. I use a king live bait rig on the top balloon rig and a double 6/0 circle hook rig on the bottom with 100+ lb mono or flouro.

-Drift the live bottom and nearshore ledges with live mullet on a Carolina rig. You will catch everything! This year we caught many Cobia, a 200 lb tiger shark, nurse shark, Grouper, Trigger Fish, Flounder, Trout, etc on a FINGER MULLET drifting the right bottom. Side Note: I can understand catching Cobia on a finger mullet; however, I still cant get over a 200 lb tiger shark foraging on a finger mullet… lol

-Always jig a diamond jig on the bottom of your Sabiki Rig. You will not be let down.

-Bring the “high-speed” trolling and bring it NOW! I prefer the 7” Yozuri Deep Divers going 8-11 MPH. I go as fast as the plugs will pull “true”. We TONS of K Macks in the boat this year high-speed trolling. Tip: be sure the break in your split-ring is in the nose of the lure and “not in the knot”.

-Fish BIG BAITS in the inlets and channels. You will be surprised how many Cobia and Big Sharks us the waterways and inlets for navigation. I usually have a live bluefish or menhaden either light-lined or on the bottom.

-If you have three anglers on the boat fish three different methods! One angler on a live bait Carolina rig, one angler on a jig head with a Gulp and one on a Diamond Jig. You will up your catch ratio as the feeding patterns change daily!

(Picture: This nice Flounder was caught on one of our Wilmington Fishing Trips and fell for a live mullet while inshore fishing.)

Noticeable Changes in Summer Fish Patters from 2013 – 2014:

-No Nearshore or Inshore Octopus this year (Last Summer we caught 100+)

-HUGE influx of Cobia this year: We have caught over 30 juvenile Cobia and 5-10 adult cobia: Last year we did not experience this amount of cobia moving through nor did we experience a full summer duration.

-Gray Trout are larger this year on the nearshore structure (1-3 miles offshore); however, the volume of fish is down from last year.

-Sharks, Sharks & more Sharks! This year was a bumper year for the Atlantic Sharpnose. Sharpnose are normally prevalent in our waters; however, the catch numbers are noticeably up by over 100%. Not to mention the numbers of nearshore Tiger Sharks we caught/ encountered right off the beach.

-A Million Sea Bass this year… Ohh wait a minute, that’s not a change!! Come on DMF, lets lower the size limit and up the creel limit as these buggers are destroying our reef fish populations. I am officially renaming the sea bass to “Reef Glutton” as every one we catch both small and large are so fat they are about to POP!

-2014 Oddity of the season thus far: I caught a full-grown adult Flying Fish in a backwater marsh! Still trying to wrap my head around this one!

2014 Fall Fishing Forecast:

Be ready as 2014 will be EARLY Fall Fishing! The mullet run is early, I caught a True Atlantic Bonito ALREADY, the yellow butter files showed up a month early, and last but not least: the rings on Saturn are wavy this year (J/K about the rings on Saturn).

Our Fishing Charters include Fishing Charters in Wrightsville Beach, Fishing Charters in Topsail Beach, Fishing Charters in Carolina Beach and Fishing Charters in Wilmington, NC.

Fall is almost here and the fishing is HOT, HOT!

Give us a call, bring the Family and LETS GO FISHING!

-Capt. Trevor Smith

ProFishNC Charters

http://www.TopsailBeachFishing.com

Wrightsville & Topsail Beach June Fishing Report (ProFishNC Charters)

ProFishNC Charters Fishing Report for Topsail Beach, Wrightsville Beach, Carolina Beach, Figure Eight Island and Wilmington Fishing Charters.

Summer is Here and the Fishing is HOT ! We are currently catching a huge variety of species on our “combo” Fishing Charters. We have introduced our Fishing Combo Charters which is a good mix of fishing techniques allowing for a widely mixed bag. On our Combo Charters we troll for Mackerel, Bluefish and Tuna… Then Bottom Fish for big Offshore Flounder, Black Seabass, Silver Snapper… We jig for Grey Trout, Jacks and Cobia… Sight fish for F. Albacore, Spanish Mackerel, Cobia & Jacks…We can top it off with inshore or jetty fishing at anytime during the charter. I have found that many of my clients prefer this mixed approach to fishing as it allows both a huge variety of fish and lots of action!

Whats Biting Nearshore and Offshore… Everything! U name it and we are probably catching it. We are catching big cobia sight fishing the buoys and bottom bouncing big jigs in the 3-10 mile range. The huge offshore flounder are now running and we are catching them on both live baits and bottom jigs (Berkeley Gulp on a 2-3oz jighead). Spanish and King Mackerel are here as well in good numbers as we are picking them up trolling YoZuri Deep Divers & Spoons. Black Seabass and Silver Snapper are biting well in the 5-10 mile range picking up most of them on jigs and fresh cut bait on circle hooks.

Whats Biting Inshore… Just about all of our inshore species including Flounder (we are having 20+ fish days most days), Speckled Trout, Red Drum, Black Drum, Sheepshead, Grey Trout, Bluefish, etc. We are picking up most of our gamefish on artificials; however, live baits are key as well. We are fishing a lot of backwaters right now including South Topsail Island Fishing the Inlet and Flats, Figure Eight Island Fishing Masons Inlet and the backwaters of north Figure Eight Island. Wrightsville Beach Inshore Fishing includes Masonboro Inlet and all of the tributaries and inshore fishing waters of Wrightsville Beach and Wilmington. Inshore Fishing Carolina Beach includes both the inlet, Snows Cut and the Cape Fear River.

A small sample of our “Go To” fishing gear includes but is not limited to:

YoZuri Flouro Carbon “disappearing pink”

YoZuri Crystal Minnow Deep Divers

BlueWater Candy Jigs (All Sizes)

Berkely Gulp (Shrimp, Jerk Shad & Swimming Mullet)

Gamikatzu Circle Hooks

Shimano Rods & Reels

PowerPro Braid 20-100lb line

Our Summer Fishing Charters are booking up incredibly fast this season so be sure to give us a call and check out our new Topsail Beach Fishing Charters website & remember to TAKE YOUR KIDS FISHING!

Captain Trevor Smith

ProFishNC Charters

(910) 547-0000

www.FishingChartersNC.com

www.TopsailBeachFishing.com

North Carolina Spring & Early Summer Fishing Report (ProFishNC Charters)

ProFishNC Charters Fishing Report Late Spring – Early Summer Fishing

Our Spring Wilmington Fishing Charters including Topsail Beach, Wrightsville Beach & Carolina Beach are going STRONG! Our Water Temps here in SE Coastal NC are from 67 – 70 Degrees currently and warming up FAST.

What fishing charters are HOT Right Now (a/k/a: Whats Running)

The Spanish Mackerel Fishing is on fire with large schools of fish pushing up the nearshore coast. We are catching them on YoZuri Deep Divers trolling fast.

Atlantic Bonito are still around and falling for the YoZuri Deep Divers as well. They are now a little smaller class of fish than the early run Bonito.

The Bluefish are so thick in numbers they are now a nuisance while targeting mackerel. I found that speeding up my troll speed to above 6kts keeps the bluefish off my baits and focuses more on mackerel.

The King Mackerel are here now as well as we have been catching good numbers of them in the 3-8 mile range. We are catching the Kings on both live baits (slow trolled) and YoZuri Deep Divers (the larger ones).

Flounder Fishing is Excellent right now… We are now catching double digit numbers on many of our inshore charters and LARGE Flatties on our offshore bottom fishing charters. I am using 1-2oz Spro Jigs tipped with Berkeley Gulp and fishing the tops of nearshore ledges and structure. These offshore Flounder are in the 2-6 lb range on average!

Red Drum Fishing is Excellent right now as well. We are catching most of our redfish in the backwaters around oyster bars and docks. They are hitting both live baits and Soft baits on jigheads.

Black Seabass Fishing is still going Strong with most of my Offshore Bottom Fishing Charters catching huge numbers of seabass; though not all keepers, many go in the cooler.

Cobia Fishing is picking up now with the migration of the bait fish that are moving up our coast. The cobia are falling for both live baits and artificials (they are VERY Curious Fish).

We are currently running Offshore Fishing Charters and Inshore Fishing Charters for all of our local beaches and still have availability for our Summer Fishing Trips. We fish for it all… so if you want to target a specific species or fish a certain technique just let me know and we will make it happen. When you fish with ProFishNC, you can expect to do it all including Trolling, Drift Fishing, Offshore Bottom Fishing, Jigging, Sight-Casting, etc.

Check out our new Topsail Beach Fishing Charters Website!

Don’t Forget to Pass Down the Fun you had as a child and TAKE YOUR KIDS FISHING!

Tight-Lines,

Capt. Trevor Smith

ProFishNC Charters

(910) 547-0000

CaptainTrevor@ProFishNC.com

ProFishNC Charters: Spring NC Charter Boats Fishing Report: 4/21/2014

ProFishNC Charters Fishing Report & Forecast April 21^st 2014 (Happy Easter!)

As your typical Spring Fishing would have it, we have had many really awesome days filling the cooler and fish limits and some slower days where we pick up only 3 or 4 fish… all depending on the weather conditions. Rest assured, if we have had a stretch of rainy & cold days, the fishing slows a bit; however, when we get warmer days in the 70’s and nights in the 60’s the bite tends to be on FIRE!

I’ll break the fishing report down by beaches.

Lets start with our Topsail Beach Charter Boats. Fishing has been productive off the beach on our “Deep Sea Fishing Charters” (Deep Sea has a different context to everyone; however, we have been fishing 10 miles offshore lately on the 10 mile rock area and have been producing Limits of Black Seabass and some really nice sized Tautog). We are also seeing the Bluefish show up in good numbers with the Bonito right around the corner! Try Divers Rock in the next week for the first wave of these tasty Little Tuna. The inlet fishing conditions at Topsail Beach are a little tough with both inlets a bit tricky to navigate at the lower tides. We currently are Fishing our Topsail Beach trips out of Wrightsville Beach due to the easily navigated Masonboro Inlet. Inshore Fishing Topsail Beach has been good as well, though not as hot as Offshore Fishing. The big bluefish “Chopper Blues” have shown up this week with many caught over 10 lbs! I am catching the Big Bluefish on whole mullet (caught last fall and brined) with at 3/ot circle hook and about 5 inches of wire. Then to a swivel with an appropriate sized egg weight on the main line above (Carolina Rig).

Our Wrightsville Beach Charter Boats fishing reports are about identical to Topsail Beach Fishing reports as we are pretty much fishing the same areas. Big Bluefish in the back waters (especially on the falling tides), lots of sea bass at the 5 and 10 mile boxcars & a few false albacore showing up for some fun sight fishing activity. Inshore Fishing Wrightsville Beach has been great some days and slower others (weather dependent) with some days catching Huge Number of Red & Black Drum then other days only catching a hand full. The Flounder Fishing is picking up as well with at least a few caught on every trip this week.

Our Wilmington Charter Boats have had great fishing in the Cape Fear River (until the rains arrived recently). We’ve been catching good numbers of Speckled Trout and both Red and Black Drum on every trip. The Cape Fear River fishing will be strong throughout the year and is always an option for great fishing.

Our Carolina Beach Charter Boats have been catching the same as Wrightsville and Topsail Beach: Sea Bass offshore bottom-fishing along with Big Tautog. Inshore Fishing Carolina Beach has produced good number of Flounder in the inlets and Red Drum on the Docks. The Spanish Mackerel will be here any day so be ready to tie on your favorite casting lures!

Fishing Forecast: Our Water Temp at the 5 Mile Buoy currently is showing 59.2 degrees (four degrees cooler surface temp than this time last week) but is warming fast! The Spanish Mackerel and Bonito here within the next week and the monster inshore chopper bluefish will stay around for the next three weeks providing light tackle fun!

Feel Free to give me a call anytime and hope to see you on the water this year!

Capt. Trev

ProFishNC Charters

(910) 547-0000

http://www.FishingChartersNC.com

ProFishNC Charters Spring Fishing Update and Report 3/27/2014

ProFishNC Charters Spring Fishing Update 3/27/2014

Well, it’s still COLD here in SE NC; however, that will change in the next week with a steady forecast of 70’s coming. Our water temperatures here in Wilmington, Topsail, Figure Eight, Carolina & Wrightsville Beach are still hovering in the low 50’s but that’s not stopping us from finding the fish.

Lets start with our Topsail Beach Fishing Charters Report: The water is still cold and the fish are still lethargic; however, there are Red Drum holding off the beach and in the docks. Not very active right now… but they are there. We are also seeing smaller speckled trout and black drum in the backwaters that are feeding. Trout on Berkley Gulp and Black Drum on cut shrimp in the pilings. Offshore Fishing Topsail Island black seabass, tautog and dogfish sharks are still plentiful in the 2-10 mile range off the beach.

Wilmington Fishing Charters and the Cape Fear River Fishery. This time of year we are still catching good numbers of Striped Bass in the NE Cape Fear River and Brunswick River. They are falling for finesse baits and Berkley Gulp on a weighted hook or jig head. Focusing on the drop-offs, old pilings and docks (remember, the slower the presentation the better!).

Our Carolina Beach Fishing Charters are providing multiple fishing options due to the accessibility of the Cape Fear River via Snows Cut. Depending on the rain water influence, many of our Carolina Beach Charters are being run in the Cape Fear River right now. We are running many of our fishing charters north up the Cape Fear River and catching Striped Bass, Speckled Trout and Black Drum. On those days that the river is “washed out” we are fishing the inlet and running north to Wrightsville Beach to fish the Jetties and near shore structures.

Wrightsville Beach NC Fishing Charters remain one of our best options this time of year due to the accessibility of the Masonboro Inlet Jetties. For the next two weeks I prefer fishing offshore Wrightsville Beach (at least until the water temps warm a little more) on the nearshore wrecks, ledges and hard-bottom. We are still catching good numbers of Black Seabass, Tautog and Sharks using mullet and scented artificial baits. Note: For all local beach fishing communities the inshore fishing should pick up by mid April with good numbers of trout, flounder and drum feeding on the newly arriving baitfish.

Our Figure Eight Island Fishing Charters are picking up as well with many clients utilizing our complementary dock pick-up. We are running most of our Figure Eight Charters south to Wrightsville Beach or North to Lea Island chasing the schools of Red Drum holding in the surf. It will be no time till the Inshore Fishing at Figure 8 Island will be ON FIRE!

We are booking up Quickly this year for our Summer Fishing Charters so be sure to reserve your fishing charter dates as soon as possible.
Check out our NC Fishing Charter options at http://www.FishingChartersNC.com and hope to see you on the water this year!

Tight-Lines,
Capt. Trevor Smith
ProFishNC Charters
(910) 547-0000

ProFishNC Charters March Fishing Report (Topsail Beach, Wrightsville Beach, Wilmington, Carolina Beach & Figure Eight Island NC)

ProFishNC Charters March Fishing Report: Black Seabass Fishing continues to be the HOT TICKET!

As we get closer to Spring and the waters warm the baitfish will show in greater numbers along with the Gamefish! Currently, our Water Temps at Topsail Beach, Wrightsville Beach, Carolina Beach, Wilmington & Figure Eight Island NC are between 48 & 52 degrees. This winter has been unseasonably cold and is having and influence on the water temps; however, on those consecutive warmer days the water temps do rise a few degrees!

Inshore Fishing this time of year can be a little tricky with some days being more productive than others. We can chase Red Drum this time of year in the shallow waters where we will find them warming up and “sunning”, the Black Drum are in the creeks and deeper water spots, there are smaller sheepshead and tautog around rock-piles and pilings. It will be only a matter of days – a few weeks when we will see some of the Larger Speckled Trout showing up for some fun catch and release action.

Nearshore Fishing continues to be productive as I LOVE bottom fishing this time of year due to the action it provides! The HOT BITE right now is none only than the delicious Black Seabass. We are catching limits in the 2 – 10 mile range right now fishing with both mullet on bottom rigs, vertical jigs & finesse baits on jig-heads. We are also catching TONS of Smooth and Spiny Dogfish a/k/a “Green-Eyes”… These guys are a blast to catch on light tackle!

*Remember: Black Seabass are currently OPEN TO KEEP (in recent years past they have been catch and release only this time of year) & Speckled Trout are catch and release until June 15^th!

The most important report to date… ProFishNC Charters welcomed baby Hadley Maria Smith into our family a few weeks ago! I couldn’t be a prouder daddy!!!! I know she will be the best Fisherman the East Coast has ever seen!

Our All Inclusive Fishing Charters covers most area SE NC Beaches including:

Topsail Island Fishing Charters

Carolina Beach Fishing Charters

Wrightsville Beach Fishing Charters

Figure Eight Island Fishing Charters

Wilmington, NC Fishing Charters

Give me a call or e-mail anytime and LETS GO Fishin’!

Capt. Trevor Smith

ProFishNC Charters

(910) 547-0000

CaptainTrevor@ProFishNC.com