Every spring, red drum return to North Carolina’s coastal sounds. Not just to the state, but to specific sounds, creek mouths, and even the same stretches of…

I’ve spent enough time in Bulls Bay to know one thing for certain, it’s not a place you just show up and fish. You learn it, or…

The  spring and early summer months are a time of the year when the inshore goes thru a transition period. It's when the fish come out of…

I’ve run those yellow boats, not idling around either, but wide open, throttles down, heading toward someone’s bad day. Because that’s what it nearly always was. Nobody…

I came to North Carolina in 1992 with my wife and three children. It was far more than a move, it was the beginning of a new…

Each spring something remarkable happens along the banks of the Roanoke River. As winter slowly fades and the first warm days of March arrive, thousands of powerful…

There is a particular kind of confidence that lives inshore. It rides comfortably in bay boats, speaks with authority about creeks and oyster bars, and carries an…

Fishing for the next generation will not disappear, but it will almost certainly feel different,  shaped by pressures, technology, and a changing relationship with the water itself.…

After a long Carolina winter, the first real signs of spring bring something special to freshwater lakes and rivers across North and South Carolina. The dogwoods begin…

Every year along the Carolina coast, there comes a moment when winter finally begins to loosen its grip. The mornings are still cool, but the air carries…