North Myrtle November 14, 2013
Andrew Sabisch with a red drum that fell for a shrimp in Dunn South while he was fishing with Marshall Rasnick.
Patrick, of Capt. Smiley’s Fishing Charters, reports that anglers are seeing the wide-open trout bite around Little River crank up, and limit catches of the pretty fish have been common over the past week (with plenty of keepers and some fish to 4-5 lbs.). Most of the action has been around oyster bars and grass edges in the creeks and ICW and around larger structure like docks and the Sunset Beach Bridge.
The bite is firing up around Little River Inlet as well, but it’s been a bit better inshore in recent days.
Live shrimp fished on float rigs are fooling the majority of the trout right now, but anglers have also been hooking up while working paddletail Bass Assassin soft plastics and curlytail Gulp baits on light jigheads.
Good numbers of red drum are feeding alongside the specks (with fish to 26” hooked at the Little River jetties recently) and in the area’s marsh and creek backwaters. Live shrimp under floats are also fooling the reds, but they’ll take an interest in finger mullet and other live baits or a wide variety of artificial lures.
Brody Hughes with a 43″ red drum he caught and released near Little River Inlet while fishing on the “Lil’ Bro Bro.”
Flounder fishing has also been solid lately (although many of the fish are on the small side). Anglers are hooking the flatfish in spots like Tubbs Inlet on live shrimp and finger mullet or Gulp baits pinned to 1/4 oz. jigheads.
Anglers can expect the speckled trout and red drum action to hold up for a while, as November and December are typically some of the best fishing months of the year in the area. The speck action should improve at the jetties as the water cools a bit further, and anglers can find the reds feeding in shallow water up area creeks and on the flats as fall fades into winter.
Matt, of Cherry Grove Pier, reports that anglers are seeing intermittent spot runs from the pier and hooking big numbers on bloodworms and shrimp pinned to bottom rigs when the bite is on.
Sea mullet and black and red drum are also falling for shrimp and cut baits on bottom rigs.
A few flounder are coming over the rails, but most are undersized.
The water is 67 degrees.
