Wrightsville Beach September 15, 2005
Tex, at Tex’s Tackle, reports good fishing is around the corner if the weather will allow anglers to get on the water. The creeks have been hot lately for flounder and red drum, mostly on live baits. Plenty of mullet are around now. Sheepshead are biting along pilings on barnacles or crabs. Not much to report on speckled trout yet, but it shouldn’t be long.
In the surf there have been whiting and a few drum caught.
Spanish and king mackerel are still close to the beach (if you can get to them). Also, the tarpon are making their migration back south, so now is your chance to get one just outside inlets and rolling along the beach.
Grouper are waiting to be caught 20 to 30 miles out, and the wahoo were beginning to turn on before the seas kicked up.
Dickie, at Tidal Market II, reports fishing should be good, but constant NE winds have kept anyone from going. Plenty of mullet are moving around in the creeks or inlets to use for drum and flounder. Kings and spanish are waiting along the beach and inlets, as soon as it calms down enough to chase them.
And gulf stream fishermen will be going after wahoo as soon as it settles.
Lewis, at Bug-Em Bait Co., reports red drum and flounder both becoming very active with all the mullet moving around on the NE winds. Fishing has been good everywhere from Topsail down to Bald Head, if you can find a spot out of the wind. Ladyfish up to 36 inches have been around, and they are plenty of fun on topwater plugs.
Kings and spanish are along the beach, and tarpon will be migrating as well.
Grouper and snapper fishing was good around 30 miles before the seas kicked up, and wahoo were beginning to turn on as well.
Rick, at Johnnie Mercers Pier, reports good fishing thanks to the tarpon on its migration south. Many fish were hooked, with three and four at a time rolling at baits. There were three fish landed in the 120 to 140 lb. class.
Bluefish are hitting live and cut baits on the bottom. Flounder are around, and there was a nice one caught weighing over 2.5 lbs. A few spinner sharks have been hooked off the pier and in the surf as well.
