2020 Fishing season is here and we are excited to offer two fishing charter boats for you to choose from this season. We have a brand new 28′ Sea Vee CC equipped with a new Cummins 370 Diesel and have our trusty inshore/ nearshore McKee Craft CC.
We look forward to fishing with many of you again this season and meeting new clients and friends as we always do.
Call me directly to book your fishing charter at (910) 547-0000
Thanks,
Capt Trev
Spring Wilmington Fishing Charters Report | ProFishNC Charters | Spring 2016 | Capt Trev
Wilmington Fishing Charters | Spring Bonito Blitz!
in short, its Time to Book your Fishing Charter.
Well folks we are in the North Carolina annual coastal baitfish migration, the Atlantic Bonito are here as is the Wilmington Fishing Charters Spring Fishing Season!
Currently, the nearshore waters are between 60 and 67 degrees from 1 mile out to 10 miles as the warm days are rapidly bringing the temps up. The inshore waters are between 64 and 75 degrees depending on the tide (lower outgoing tide is the warmest water in the estuaries right now and is helping the fish become more active and thus more hungry.
Nearshore Fishing Charters this week:
The Atlantic Bonito have showed up and as most locals know, one of our best eating tuna and the only edible one most folks get a shot at each year (since the other edible tuna are at the Gulf Stream 55 miles offshore). We are seeing a healthy class of Bonito so far in this seasons run with many having that desired “football” shape. We are catching them both with deep divers and sight fishing with diamond jigs and casting jigs. Note: Be sue to have your drags loose and have the net ready!
Bottom Fishing is a popular choice this time of year for many of our Wilmington Fishing Charters clients. Bottom Fishing is picking up swiftly with many keeper Black Seabass, Silver Snapper, Flounder, Grey Trout and Sharks this week. We are using fresh cut bait, live baits and jigs this time of year that match the current baits in the area. Right now we have a run of silverside anchovies that are between 2 and 3 inches; therefore, our jigs and strip baits are to the same specks. .
Inshore Fishing
Our Inshore Fishing Charters are picking up as we are catching flounder, red drum, black drum and speckled trout. The Flounder are coming from the very backs of the creeks and estuaries where they can lay in the warmer waters and sun-heated sands. The Red Drum are coming from both the warm flats and the deepwater docks in the creeks as they are feeding on the bait that is flooding our estuaries currently. Most of the bait inshore right now is the spring hatch from a month or two ago which means the smaller sides bait the better right now, whereas later in the season the opposite is true. Black Drum are feeding on the edges of oyster bars and dock pilings on crustaceans and shrimp. Trout are in the swifter moving waters feeding on baitfish rapidly moving through the water column. Basically, our inshore fishery is about as good as it gets right now for our Spring fishing season.
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Capt. Trevor Smith | ProFishNC Charters | 2016 | (910-547-0000
ProFishNC Charters (NC Fishing Charter Update, We are now providing our Winter Fishing Charter Rates). 
Just a quick update for our Topsail Beach Fishing Charters, we are catching lots of trout right now and do have availability this upcoming week. We are still providing Christmas Fishing Charter Gift Certificates, call Captain Trevor for details. Feel Free to give us a call anytime at (910) 547-0000 or e-mail us at ProFishNCCharters@Gmail.com.
*Note: We are providing Year Around Wilmington Fishing Charters in the Cape Fear River for Striped Bass, Red Drum, Black Drum and Speckled Trout.
We also provide Year Around Wrightsville Beach offshore fishing charters for Black Seabass (throughout the colder months they move very close to the beach) and fish Wrightsville Beach inshore fishing charters for Red Drum (although the drum are lethargic in the winter, they school up in the hundreds under the deep water docks). 
*Providing complementary Dock Pickup on our Wrightsville Beach Fishing Trips and our Figure Eight Island Fishing Charters
Tight-Lines,
Captain Trevor Smith/ ProFishNC Charters
Well folks, we are in the middle of our Fall Fishing Charter season and have a Fishing update for you.
Our Topsail Beach Fishing Charters have been excellent with limits of Trout and many very large flounder on almost every trip.
Our Wilmington Fishing Charters and Wrightsville Beach Fishing Charters are producing nearly the same results as our Topsail Island Fishing Charters with the exception of adding Limits of King Mackerel to our creel limits. Last week on a few of our Carolina Beach Fishing Charters we caught over 20 King Mackerel on a 4hour 1/2 day Fishing Charter! They are within 5 miles of the beach right now and they are feeding on anything and everything. We caught most of our King Mackerel on a “Hank Brown Rig” tipped with a dead cigar minnow trolling at about 2 knots.
We are one of the only Full Time, Year Around Fishing Charter Companies. Give us a call to get your Wintertime Fishing ‘Fix”.
Now is time to Book a Fishing Charter so call us today as we are already booking for our Spring Charter Fishing Season.
We are offering Fishing Charter Gift Certificates for Christmas again this year. Feel free to call or e-mail me with the details. (all Christmas Gift Fishing Charter Gift Certificates are at a 20% off of our normal fishing charter rates.
Tight Lines and Happy Thanksgiving!
Capt Trevor Smith/ ProFishNC Charters/ (910) 547.0000
ProFishNC Charters Summer Fishing Report
Quick Fishing Report:
Well folks our summer fishing season has been HOT both temperature and fishing!
On our Offshore Fishing Charters we are catching Mahi Mahi, King Mackerel and Cobia trolling and Black Seabass, Flounder, Silver Snapper and a wide variety of other bottom fish when we anchor up on the ledges and reefs.
Our Inshore Fishing Charters are great as well with some days better than others during these hot summer days. We are catching most of our bigger flounder in the 
deeper water holes near deep docks and inlet mouths. Our Red Drum Fishing is heating up in the backwaters as well which is an “inshore fan favorite”!
Our Fall Fishing Charters are booking up especially quick this year so be sure to call us to book your fall fishing charter sooner than later.
Tight Lines!
Capt. Trevor Smith
(910) 547-0000
ProFishNC Charters June 2nd 2015
Late Spring and Early Summer Fishing Charters reports for Topsail Beach, Wrightsville Beach, Carolina Beach, Wilmington and Figure Eight Island, NC
An EPIC Cobia and King Mackerel Bite is on right now!
Lets get to it: Our Topsail Beach Fishing Charters and Wrightsville Beach Fishing Charters have been on fire the past three weeks (of course some days have been slower than others; however, overall we have really been catching some Huge Trophy Class Fish!).
This time of year we are focusing on King Mackerel and Big Cobia on our nearshore and offshore fishing charters. For the
King Mackerel we have been focusing our fishing efforts in the 3-10 mile range and are falling for a cigar minnow trolled at a slow speed. These “Reel Screamers” are always fun and a Fishing Charter Favorite for many of my clients. We always use Spinning reels spooled with Power Pro Braid along with a 40lb fluorocarbon leader tied to a Hank Brown Rig.
Our Cobia Fishing has been on fire with many caught this season, most of which we are catching sight-fishing. Cobia can be found on fixed structures and floating structures and bait-balls. I have a few rods with 8000 class spinning reels and 80lb braid ready to fly with an eight inch curly tail grub on a jig head ready to fly at all times. Most of our larger cobia this year were caught sight-fishing using this tactic.
Inshore Fishing Charters: Our inshore fishing charters are heating up with the red drum and flounder showing up in better numbers each day. We have been using both artificial and live baits to tempt the Redfish and Flounder. We fish away from the crowds in the calm secluded backwaters; which is not only better fishing, but better scenery as well.
For our Dads and Moms, we offer Kid Friendly Fishing Charters that appeal to the entire family, give me a call for the details or visit us at http://www.FishingChartersNC.com
Our Fishing Charters are booking up incredibly quick this season with only a few summer dates still available. Give us a call and lets go fishing!
Tight-Lines,
Capt. Trev
ProFishNC Charters
(910) 547-0000
http://www.TopsailBeachFishing.com
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
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