North Carolina Fishing Reports (June 2025)

Jimmy Pitetti
Buxton, North Carolina
Reported: 1 week ago

Cory with a 24 inch spackle Mom Maisie and dad Randy with a nice catchup released speckled trout

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Jimmy Pitetti Buxton, North Carolina Reported: 1 week ago

Cory with a 24 inch spackle Mom Maisie and dad Randy with a nice catchup released speckled trout

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Guion Lee III
Wilmington, North Carolina
Reported: 1 month ago

Bonito bite is on fire. With Black Sea bass and big sheep's head on the wrecks. The fishing for reds and black drum has been steady as well on cut bait, and tip water during during the mid day suns.

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Guion Lee III Wilmington, North Carolina Reported: 1 month ago

Bonito bite is on fire. With Black Sea bass and big sheep's head on the wrecks. The fishing for reds and black drum has been steady as well on cut bait, and tip water during during the mid day suns.

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Luke Moser
Wilmington, North Carolina
Reported: 1 month ago

The red drum have started to break up from their winter schools and have become much more active. Catching fish on cut baits and fresh shrimp as well as artificial and top water baits. The black drum bite has been very productive catching fishing along boat docks fishing fresh shrimp....

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Luke Moser Wilmington, North Carolina Reported: 1 month ago

The red drum have started to break up from their winter schools and have become much more active. Catching fish on cut baits and fresh shrimp as well as artificial and top water baits. The black drum bite has been very productive catching fishing along boat docks fishing fresh shrimp. The near shore action has by far been the best. The Atlantic bonito have shown up and have been all up and down the beach trolling deep divers and casting at fish on the surface. There have been a few Spanish mackerel around but the numbers have not shown up but expect to see them any day now!

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Jason Garay
Wilmington, North Carolina
Reported: 2 months ago

Bottom fishing offshore has been good. Big-size sea bass, grunts and the like

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Jason Garay Wilmington, North Carolina Reported: 2 months ago

Bottom fishing offshore has been good. Big-size sea bass, grunts and the like

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Justin Ragsdale
Atlantic Beach, North Carolina
Reported: 3 months ago

It's Black Seabass time of the year. A great spring break option. Lots of action and good eats too! And if the ocean doesn't cooperate weather wise, chasing tasty sea mullet can be a backup.

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Justin Ragsdale Atlantic Beach, North Carolina Reported: 3 months ago

It's Black Seabass time of the year. A great spring break option. Lots of action and good eats too! And if the ocean doesn't cooperate weather wise, chasing tasty sea mullet can be a backup.

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Daniel Griffee
Morehead City, North Carolina
Reported: 3 months ago

Reds are showing up inside in schools, calm sunny days you can go hunting, and nearshore we are catching black drum and sheepshead on the jetty's.

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Daniel Griffee Morehead City, North Carolina Reported: 3 months ago

Reds are showing up inside in schools, calm sunny days you can go hunting, and nearshore we are catching black drum and sheepshead on the jetty's.

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Jack Jackson
Newport, North Carolina
Reported: 4 months ago

Been pretty cold here but the fish are still biting and it's starting to warm back up. Last few trips have been speckled trout and when we can get out to the jetty's there's black drum and sheepshead to be caught.

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Jack Jackson Newport, North Carolina Reported: 4 months ago

Been pretty cold here but the fish are still biting and it's starting to warm back up. Last few trips have been speckled trout and when we can get out to the jetty's there's black drum and sheepshead to be caught.

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Jack Jackson
Newport, North Carolina
Reported: 4 months ago

On our way to jig up bluefish for bait, we marked a large school of shad. Thinking that would be a good place to start fishing we marked it to come back to once we put some bait in the livewell. After putting a few 4-5 pound bluefish in the...

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Jack Jackson Newport, North Carolina Reported: 4 months ago

On our way to jig up bluefish for bait, we marked a large school of shad. Thinking that would be a good place to start fishing we marked it to come back to once we put some bait in the livewell. After putting a few 4-5 pound bluefish in the livewell we headed towards the bait we had marked. When we got about half a mile from it we started seeing birds working a few hundred yards in front of us. At that time we decided to deploy the bait and start fishing. Before we could get the second rod set, the first one started screaming but sadly didn't get hooked. Thinking it was probably a shark we baited back up and set the rods. Less than 10 minutes later we got the bite we were looking for and an hour and a half later had it tied off beside the boat. The fish was 108 inches long and cored (head, tail, and innards removed) out at 603 pounds.

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