Carolina Beach Fishing Charters

Seahawk Inshore Fishing Report 8/10/09

The inshore fishing has been good this past week, especially early morning with catches of redfish, flounder, and a few speckled trout.

The redfish bite has been really good. We have been catching the reds back in the creeks, schooled up on the flats, and in deeper water along shelly bottoms in the lower Cape Fear. Double digit days have been common. Topwater plugs are working well early mornings with jigs and live bait working for the most part of the day.

We have also been catching some nice flounder and a few speckled trout on some of the same artificials and live baits that the reds have been hitting. The sheephead are also biting well on live fiddler crabs.

September fishing is right around the corner with speckled trout normally providing us with a lot of action with live shrimp and artificials. Flounder and redfish should be here in good numbers also. Check out the photos from this past week.

Thanks,
Jeff Wolfe
Seahawk Inshore Fishing Charters
Fish Carolina Beach Blog
910-619-9580

Ivan with a nice red he caught with a perfect cast into a large school on the flats on 8/7

Christian with a red he caught way back up in shallow creek on 8/7

Braxton, Marvin, and Josh with a good catch on 8/5

We have been catching some nice flounder on artificials and live baits

Marvin with a nice tripletail he caught sightcasting a live shrimp around a crab trap buoy

The ladies above have been in on the action recently fishing live baits on float rigs and bottom rigs

Kenny with a nice red he caught on a topwater plug

Christian with a 3lb flounder caught on a jig

Seahawk Inshore Fishing Report 8/1/09

The inshore action in the lower Cape Fear has been a little hit-or miss the past couple of weeks, with a couple of good days followed by a tough one. The hard southwest winds have made it tough on the fishing, especially the sightcasting for redfish. The fishing has shown a good sign of improvement over the past couple of days though.

I have been finding some nice schools of upper-slot redfish on the flats and in some shallow coves on the leeward side of grass banks out of the wind. We have also caught some good numbers of reds blindcasting soft plastics and top water plugs along shellbeds and oyster rocks along the creek banks of the lower Cape Fear. For those that have trouble throwing artificials, we have been catching reds using live baits on float rigs and bottom rigs.

Some nice speckled trout and flounder have also been caught recently on my charters using both live baits and artificials. We have also caught some good numbers of sheephead and a few black drum fishing fiddler crabs on carolina rigs. The largest sheephead weighed in just under eight pounds. We had a couple of days where we saw a few tripletails and caught one using a live shrimp fished on a float rig around a crab trap bouy.

We have also caught a couple of bonnet head sharks on the flats using jigs. I have been seeing a large black tip shark patrolling a redfish flat in less than two feet of water that I plan on catching if I get a chance. This guy is about five feet long and weighs about a hundred pounds.

Check out the photos from the past few weeks. These are just a few of the nice fish we have caught recently.

Thanks,
Jeff Wolfe
Seahawk Inshore Fishing Charters
Fish Carolina Beach Blog
910-619-9580

Jerry with a nice redfish caught on a redfish magic glass minnow

Ed with a bonnet head shark caught that hit a jig

Jeff with a over the slot red caught on a live mud minnow

Robert with a upper slot red caught on a artificial

Chris had a double inshore slam on this day

Thomas with a speckled trout that hit a jig

Aaron with a nice spec that hit a live mullet minnow

Kenny and son Aaron with a nice inshore mixwed bag

A rare tripletail that I caught sightcasting with a live shrimp around a crab trap bouy

Jacob and Gabe with a couple of the flounder we caught on a recent seafood trip

Eric with a 27.5 red that hit a redfish magic glass minnow

The kids above are having a blast catching fish on live baits