North Myrtle Beach August 20, 2009
Capt. Mark Dickson, of Shallow Minded Fishing Charters out of Little River, with a 15 lb. tarpon hooked by a client on a live shrimp beneath a float at the Little River Jetties.
Mark, of Shallow Minded Fishing Charters, reports that anglers have been catching some good numbers of larger red drum around the Little River jetties. Most are in the 27-30” class, but anglers landed fish as large as 48” last week. Live finger mullet, pogies, and shrimp will all fool the drum, and anglers may also be able to hook up on Gulp baits or other lures.
There’s been a decent flounder bite around Little River Inlet lately as well, and anglers landed flatties as large as 5 lbs. last week while fishing live finger mullet on the bottom.
In the backwaters, there’s been a good red drum bite around Bonaparte Creek and in Dunn Sound. Anglers are hooking most of the fish on live baits like shrimp and finger mullet.
Anglers have been hooking some flounder around Sunset Beach Bridge on live baits.
Patrick, of Capt. Smiley’s Fishing Charters, reports that there’s been a decent flounder bite around the Little River jetties, where anglers are hooking up with some flatfish on live mullet and shrimp. More flounder are feeding inshore around Sunset Beach Bridge, and they’ve been falling for Gulp baits lately.
Red drum are feeding in the backwaters of Dunn Sound, and anglers are hooking them on Gulp baits.
Fishing with live shrimp in Dunn Sound has been producing some action with large whiting and croaker.
The area around Sunset Beach Bridge has been producing some action with red drum, croaker, speckled trout, and some flounder. Live shrimp are attracting attention from all three species.
Drifting through Little River Inlet is producing some mixed bag action with red drum, ladyfish, bonnethead sharks, big whiting, and a few flounder. Some of the reds in the inlet are large ones, and anglers can target the big fish by using larger baits on circle hooks.
Cameron, of Little River Fishing Fleet, reports that the offshore bottom fishing is going strong. Anglers are landing some large scamps while fishing structure 40-50 miles off Little River Inlet in 100-120’ of water. A few big gags have been mixed in, but most of the gags seem to have moved closer to shore. In addition to the groupers, big beeliners, triggerfish, sea bass, and other bottomfish are coming over the rails. Anglers are hooking the grouper on cigar minnows and the smaller bottom feeders on squid and cut baits.
Inshore bottom fishing has been producing some fast action with tomtates, smaller sea bass, ringtails, and more.
Trollers found some slow king mackerel fishing last week, but a good spanish bite near the beaches while trolling Clarkspoons. Anglers spanish fishing got a welcome surprise from decent numbers of peanut dolphin this past week as well.
Brendan, of Cherry Grove Pier, reports that anglers bottom fishing with cut shrimp landed good numbers of whiting and pompano.
Those baiting up with live shrimp hooked some red and black drum in the surf zone, along with a few flounder.
