Offshore: They are catching dolphin, sailfish, and wahoo, along with hookups on the blue marlin and white marlin also. The offshore bottom fishing has been good with nice catches of larger sea bass, gag grouper, beeliners and triggerfish.
Inshore: Starting outside the inlet, you can catch bluefish, spanish mackerel, some smaller kings,concentrating on your artificial reefs and other structures off the beach. Don't forget the nice size flounder on the bottoms out there also. You can get into some scattered dolphin, sailfish, king mackereal little further out, along with just about all the amberjacks, shark and barracuda also.
Inside: You can still hook up with smaller red fish, speckled trout and flounder inside the marsh areas around Beaufort, Intercoastal Waterway, and at Harkers Island, and catches of sheepshead and flounder around the bridges and bottom structures inside the inlet.The old red drum are still showing up in good numbers in the Pamlico sound. Now is the time to catch a 30 to 60 lb. drum.
Piers: Blue fish, and spanish, few spots,sea mullet, and flounder.
Charters: We are now booking for old red drum in the Pamlico sound,redfish, speckled trout, spanish mackerel, kings, amberjacks and sharks.
Captain Joe Shutes Bait&Tackle - http://www.captjoes.com/tackleshop.asp
