North Myrtle Beach October 10, 2013
Capt. Mark Dickson, of Shallow Minded Inshore Fishing Charters, and Barb Pennington, from NY, with a 44″ red drum that bit a live mullet in Little River Inlet.
Mark, of Shallow Minded Inshore Fishing Charters, reports that anglers are still connecting with some large red drum (some over 40”) in Little River Inlet. Drifting during the rising tides has been the most productive strategy for the big reds, and live and cut menhaden seem to be producing the most bites.
Flounder are also feeding around the rock jetties of the inlet and at nearshore structure in the ocean. Live finger mullet are tough to beat for the flatfish.
Spanish mackerel are still looking for meals in Little River Inlet. Subsurface lures like Deadly Dicks and MirrOMinnows are attracting plenty of attention from the spaniards.
Inshore, there’s been some solid action with smaller red drum in the creeks and on flooded grass flats at higher tides. Gold spoons and soft plastics rigged weedless are fooling most of the reds, and fly casters are also getting in on the action with spoon flies and shrimp imitations.
Speckled trout are feeding in the ICW along grass banks and structure like bridges and docks (most 14-16” currently). Live shrimp under floats are fooling most of the specks.
Brayden McMullan (age 4) with a 30″ red drum he caught and released in Little River Inlet after it struck a live mullet. He was fishing with his father, Capt. Brant McMullan of Ocean Isle Fishing Center.
Patrick, of Capt. Smiley’s Fishing Charters, reports that the red drum action in the area’s shallow backwaters is going strong, and anglers are landing solid numbers of reds while casting live shrimp and finger mullet around oyster bars and grass lines. Jigheads and float rigs are both fooling the reds. Good numbers of black drum are mixed in and biting the shrimp, and there’s been good action in Dunn Sound, Bonaparte Creek, and Tubbs Inlet lately.
A few speckled trout and flounder are mixed in and biting the same baits as the drum.
The large red drum bite around the Little River jetties is still going (most fish 30-35” but some over 40”). Drifting through the inlet with live mullet and menhaden has been the most productive strategy for the big reds.
Ronnie, of Cherry Grove Pier, reports that anglers are connecting with good numbers of bluefish and spanish mackerel while working Gotcha plugs and mackerel tree rigs from the pier.
Bottom fishermen are hooking good numbers of sea mullet, but the fall spot run hasn’t gotten started yet.
Some red drum are falling for live and cut baits around the pier.
Anglers are also hooking some sheepshead while fishing sand fleas and barnacles along the pier’s pilings.
