Jacob Thompson, a 15 year-old native of Fairfax, Virginia, started fishing on Johnnie Mercer’s pier when he was only eight years old. For the first three years during our annual family vacation, he was content with bottom fishing...
Congratulations to Carolina Fall Challenge. The WINNERS ARE: Greg Evans with his winning fish won 1st place with a 17.5 king mackerel $1110.00 also won the bounty for the first legal king $100 also winning the calcutta multispecies...
Angela Casteen grew up on the pier with her dad, Donald Casteen on Center Pier among ALL the kingers. She was a part of the kinging family LONG before she made it official this year to give it a try. She has David Brandenburg, another...
The blacktip shark (Carcharhinus limbatus) is a species of
requiem sharks, family Carcharhinidae. It is common to coastal tropical and
subtropical waters around the world, including brackish habitats. The blacktip
shark has a...
Yankee Mike Freeman is an fisherman of MULTI-Piers. Ocean Crest, Oak Island Pier, Kure Beach Pier and Carolina Beach Pier. Sharing is knowledge and love of the sport with anyone who is willing to listen. He watches and learns and...
The barracuda is a salt water fish and is found in tropical and subtropical oceans worldwide.
Barracudas are elongated fish, pike-like in appearance, with prominent sharp-edged fang-like teeth, much like piranhas, that are all of...
Although a variety of methods are used to fish for tarpons (bait, lure and
fly on spinning, conventional or fly rod), the method that has garnered the most
acclaim is flats fishing with a fly rod. It is a sport akin to hunting,
combining...
this month, July 2011; we would like to honor member for their contributions for
the month.
Gina Burch Huthmacher: Worked the step up for soldiers event at Kure Beach
Pier, Worked the Fishin with Special Friends Tournament on...
The king mackerel is a medium sized fish, typically encountered from 5 to 30 pounds, but is known to exceed 90 pounds. The entire body is covered with very small, hardly visible, loosely attached scales. The first (spiny) dorsal fin is...