North Myrtle Beach July 21, 2011
Capt. Patrick Kelly, of Capt. Smiley's Fishing Charters, and David Chang, from Korea, with a red drum that fell for a live mud minnow under a PopIt float in Dunn Sound.
Mark, of Shallow Minded Inshore Fishing Charters, reports that the flounder bite has picked back up in Tubbs Inlet. Anglers are also connecting with some black and red drum in Tubbs, and live shrimp have been the prime baits for all three lately.
The bite has turned back on a bit around Sunset Beach Bridge, and live shrimp on jigheads, split-shot rigs, and Carolina rigs are producing bites from red and black drum.
Reds are also feeding on flooded grass flats at higher tides. Shallow draft boats are necessary to get to them. Staking out a flat and fan casting chunks of crab is producing plenty of action for anglers who can reach the fish (red drum to 35”).
Speckled trout are also turning on, and anglers caught good numbers (though mostly smaller fish) in the Calabash River while floating live shrimp last week.
Bluefish and spanish mackerel are feeding in and just outside Little River Inlet, and casting metal lures like Deadly Dicks or fishing small live baits without weight will draw plenty of bites from both.
Large blacktip sharks are also feeding outside the inlet, and the Little River charter boats are catching solid numbers of them while fishing large cut baits.
Patrick, of Capt. Smiley’s Fishing Charters, reports that anglers are finding solid fishing for red and black drum and flounder in Tubbs Inlet. Gulp baits on jigheads are fooling most of the flatfish, while live shrimp are tempting bites from both drum species.
The Calabash crossroads area is producing plenty of action with the red and black drum, speckled trout, ladyfish, and flounder. All are falling for live shrimp under Pop It floats.
Bonaparte Creek is also hosting a good red drum and speckled trout bite right now, and both fish (along with some black drum) are also feeding in Dunn Sound.
The Sunset Beach Bridge bite has turned back on a bit, producing action with red and black drum.
Fishing at the Little River jetties is producing a mixed bag of all the available inshore species.
Live shrimp are prevalent in the area creeks right now, and they’ve been the best bait for just about all the inshore predators recently.
Rick Snowden, of Pittsburgh, PA, with a king mackerel that bit a live menhaden near the 410/510 while he was fishing with Capt. Mark Dickson of Shallow Minded Inshore Fishing Charters.
Tyler, of Cherry Grove Pier, reports that anglers are hooking solid numbers of flounder and red drum (some to 30 lbs.) from the pier right now. Live shrimp and mud minnows are fooling both, and the drum are also taking a shine to sand fleas.
Sea mullet and some fat pompano (2 lb. class) are feeding beneath the pier, and they’re striking shrimp and sand fleas.
A few spadefish are also coming over the rails and biting shrimp.
