North River Fishing Reports (December 2025)

Jack Jackson
Newport, North Carolina
Reported: 4 hours ago

The speckled trout bite is wide open right now. Casting suspending twitch baits such as Mirrolure 17mr's and Slicks as well as jigs tipped with a variety of soft plastic baits are producing good numbers of fish.

Jack Jackson Newport, North Carolina Reported: 4 hours ago

The speckled trout bite is wide open right now. Casting suspending twitch baits such as Mirrolure 17mr's and Slicks as well as jigs tipped with a variety of soft plastic baits are producing good numbers of fish.

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Jack Jackson
Newport, North Carolina
Reported: 10 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...

Jack Jackson Newport, North Carolina Reported: 10 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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Daniel Griffee
Morehead City, North Carolina
Reported: 10 months ago

13lb mahi caught live baiting 1.5 miles off Atlantic Beach, he was not where he was supposed to be. Caught him on a live shad 20lb barracuda caught on AR 315 using a live pinfish 6lb speckled trout caught on a 1/2oz pink billy bay shrimp 7lb False Albacore caught...

Daniel Griffee Morehead City, North Carolina Reported: 10 months ago

13lb mahi caught live baiting 1.5 miles off Atlantic Beach, he was not where he was supposed to be. Caught him on a live shad 20lb barracuda caught on AR 315 using a live pinfish 6lb speckled trout caught on a 1/2oz pink billy bay shrimp 7lb False Albacore caught casting metal jigs at busting Albies on 10lb test line 15lb leader 31" red drum caught inside waters on a popping cork and gulp shrimp, largest drum I've caught inside 50" bull red drum caught in the Neuse River on cut mullet

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Jack Jackson
Newport, North Carolina
Reported: 11 months ago

Fishing has been incredible. The speckled trout bite is extremely good. Put 35-40 in the boat on Sunday all 21-24 inches.

Jack Jackson Newport, North Carolina Reported: 11 months ago

Fishing has been incredible. The speckled trout bite is extremely good. Put 35-40 in the boat on Sunday all 21-24 inches.

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Daniel Griffee
Morehead City, North Carolina
Reported: 11 months ago

Grey trout and bluefish have been off the chain over thanksgiving with a mix of speckled trout and albacore to go with them

Daniel Griffee Morehead City, North Carolina Reported: 11 months ago

Grey trout and bluefish have been off the chain over thanksgiving with a mix of speckled trout and albacore to go with them

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Daniel Griffee
Morehead City, North Carolina
Reported: 1 year ago

Speckled trout have pushed in and grey trout are stacked, bluefish as a bycatch can make for some good fishing

Daniel Griffee Morehead City, North Carolina Reported: 1 year ago

Speckled trout have pushed in and grey trout are stacked, bluefish as a bycatch can make for some good fishing

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Jack Jackson
Newport, North Carolina
Reported: 1 year ago

Fall fishing is as good as it gets right now. We are catching a nice variety of fish and in good numbers. Most days we are seeing speckled trout, redfish, black drum, and really big bluefish.

Jack Jackson Newport, North Carolina Reported: 1 year ago

Fall fishing is as good as it gets right now. We are catching a nice variety of fish and in good numbers. Most days we are seeing speckled trout, redfish, black drum, and really big bluefish.

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Daniel Griffee
Morehead City, North Carolina
Reported: 1 year ago

When the NE wind blows the albie bite has been Off the chain! Tons of blue fish to cast and jig to, grey trout have moved in and are fun to catch and great to eat!

Daniel Griffee Morehead City, North Carolina Reported: 1 year ago

When the NE wind blows the albie bite has been Off the chain! Tons of blue fish to cast and jig to, grey trout have moved in and are fun to catch and great to eat!