Greetngs from the Cape Fear Coast,It has been a while. Well, just have not been out much lately. Surfing has taken over with a few passing Hurricanes and some nice waves. There has been a significant increase in the amount of bait on the beach (glass minnows and mullet). The pogies have not been as prevalent where I have been but the mullet are really starting to run. There are small finger mullet up to big popeye mullet cruising the beachs in some very large schools. I have seen large spanish and schooley kings skying in the surf zone on these baits and even had a few blacktips skying through these schools in the surf zone ( I try not to think about this while sitting in the line up).
The ICW from Wrightsville to Carolina Beach is also loaded with bait right now and the drum and flounder fishing has been good as reported to me by a few friends. I have not spent much time out there lately. I have spent most of my fishing time in the Cape Fear River. This place is loaded with bait. Tons and tons of pogies and some very large schools of finger mullet are cruising everywhere. With all that bait the top predators are really starting to fire up as Fall has arrived. The topwater trout bite has been great over the past few weeks and floating some DOA and BillyBay shrimp has been getting them as well. Floating and dragging some bait has produced the majority of drum and even the occasional striper.
The flounder bite has also been good in Carolina Beach and the Cape Fear River. The last two weeks there have been a few tourneys and some nice 10+ lb flounder have been brought the scales. There have been lots of small flounder which is mostly what I have caught. It is hard to get psyched about flatties when the topwater bite is cranking. But if flounder fishing is your thing there are some nice fish to be had right now.
Thanks for stopping by and Stay tuned for more post (more regularly).
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Capt. Danny Wrenn
96Charter Co.
Wilmington, N.C.
910-619-2224
