Giant bluefin are now prowling the waters off the Carolina coast and dozens of charter captains are eager to put you on a fish that weighs as much as a Mini Cooper automobile. One such outfit is Phideaux Fishing Charters out of Wanchese. Contact them at 252-473-8051.
There were good numbers of winter drum beached at Ocracoke over the holidays along with a few sharks. Speckled trout, puppy drum and rockfish were caught last week in Rudee Inlet.
Reasonably warm weather has extended the crappie bite in all the major lakes as well as the lower James and Chickahominy rivers. Bags of big bass continue to hit the scales during the Winter Tournaments at Lake Anna.
