North Myrtle Beach – June 26, 2014
Adam Hartnett with a 25″ red drum that bit a live menhaden at the Sunset Beach bridge.
Mark, of Shallow Minded Inshore Fishing Charters, reports that anglers are seeing some solid red drum action (and some fish to 25 lbs.) around the Little River jetties. Drifting along the rocks with live menhaden and other baits on 1 oz. Carolina rigs is fooling the majority of the reds.
Fishing live shrimp against the rocks on floats rigs is producing some action with speckled trout and black drum.
Flounder are feeding around the Jim Caudle Reef and in Tubbs Inlet. Live menhaden have been fooling the flatfish in both locations.
Spanish mackerel and bluefish are attacking mullet on the surface just outside Little River Inlet during falling tides. Anglers can cast suspending lures like MirrOlure MR17’s around the surface activity to hook up with both.
Spadefish are schooled up at the General Sherman and other nearshore structure in the area, and anglers can chum the spades to the surface with cannonball jellyfish and use small pieces of the jellies as hook baits to tempt them to bite.
There are also still good numbers of cobia around the Sherman, but big crowds have made them a bit tough to target over the past week.
Patrick, of Capt. Smiley’s Fishing Charters, reports that anglers are connecting with red drum around the area’s backwater creeks and flats. They’re feeding in deeper potholes and depressions at lower tidal stages, when anglers can cast Gulp baits and live shrimp or mud minnows on jigheads to hook up. Some black drum are mixed in and also biting the shrimp.
Allison Wilkins, of Bolivia, NC, with a 6.25 lb. flounder that bit a live menhaden in the Shallotte River.
There have also been some reds looking for meals around ICW structure like docks and bridges where they’re biting the same baits.
Speckled trout are feeding along grass banks and around ICW structure, and live shrimp or soft plastic imitations have produced decent results with the specks recently.
More reds and trout are holding in Little River Inlet, but the fishing can be hot one day and cold the next. Drifting live shrimp under floats along the rocks is the way to target the specks, and anglers can hook the reds on live menhaden or other baits fished on the bottom.
Flounder are feeding in Tubbs Inlet and at various spots along the ICW. They’ve got a tough time passing up a live mud minnow or Gulp bait that passes by them on the bottom.
Bennett, of Cherry Grove Pier, reports that bottom fishermen are hooking some sea mullet, croaker, and a few spot on double-drop rigs baited with shrimp and bloodworms. A few pompano are mixed in.
Spanish mackerel and bluefish are taking an interest in Gotcha plugs and casting jigs that anglers are working from the pier.
The water is 80 degrees.
