North Myrtle Beach June 14, 2012
Melissa and David Riegle, of Muncie, IN, with a 5 lb. speckled trout that bit a live shrimp at the Little River Crossroads while they were fishing with Capt. Patrick Kelly of Capt. Smiley Fishing Charters.
Mark, of Shallow Minded Inshore Fishing Charters, reports that there’s been a decent red drum bite around docks in Tubbs Inlet. Anglers are also connecting with some black drum in the area, and both are falling for live mud minnows on Carolina rigs.
The flounder bite in the inlet remains strong, and the ratio of keepers to throwbacks continues to improve. Live mud minnows are fooling the flatfish as well.
Some reds are also feeding around Sunset Beach Bridge, and mud minnows are effective there as well.
There was a solid speckled trout bite around the Little River Crossroads last week (with some 18-22” fish in the mix), and again, mud minnows produced most of the action.
Off the beaches, anglers are encountering some cobia around structure like the Caudle and General Sherman reefs. Casting a bucktail jig with a soft plastic trailer to cobes that appear on the surface will often tempt the big fish to bite.
Spadefish are also schooled up on the Sherman, but several large sand tiger sharks there have been making fishing for them difficult.
Ryann Cisu with a red drum she caught on cut menhaden near Wrightsville Beach while fishing with Capt. Jamie Rushing of Seagate Charters.
Patrick, of Capt. Smiley’s Fishing Charters, reports that the Tubbs Inlet flounder fishing remains steady (with good numbers of keepers and larger fish to 6 lbs. mixed in with the throwbacks).
Red drum are feeding in Tubbs as well, and anglers are also finding them in Dunn Sound, around the Little River Crossroads, and in the Calabash River. Live mud minnows are tempting bites from the reds as well.
There was a decent speckled trout bite (with some fish to 5 lbs.) last week around the crossroads. Live shrimp, Gulp baits, and Bass Assassin paddletail soft plastics have all been effective on the specks lately. Some smaller black drum and bluefish are mixed in with the trout and biting the same baits.
Tracy Weston, of Holden Beach, NC, with a 26", 7.5 lb. red drum that bit a cut bait at the east end of Holden Beach.
Carlon, of Cherry Grove Pier, reports that anglers are connecting with some bluefish and spanish mackerel while working Gotcha plugs and mackerel tree rigs from the pier.
Some spadefish and sea mullet are taking an interest in bottom rigs baited with shrimp beneath the pier.
