Affordable Charters Fishing Report

Still catching a few speckled trout, red drum off Masonboro & a few drum around Bald Head Island. Striped bass & catfish being caught up around Wilmington in the Cape Fear River.

The pictures we posted this week show that catching striped bass in snows cut was pretty common. They ranged from 10 to 30 lbs. Back then we called them Rock Fish. The most used lure back then was a wooden red head with white body called a creek chub or large bucktail. Some old timers would brag about cutting a piece off their white t-shirt & hooking it for a lure & catching large Rock Fish. If anyone has old fishing photos they would like published please email those to captaincarty@bellsouth.net.

Keep fishing & stay safe.

Captain John Carty
Affordable Charters
910 616-3957

Blast from the past: This is a photo from 1979 of John Carty with a 17 1/2 lb stripped bass caught in Snows Cut.

Blast from the past: Berry Lucas(The Gray Rider) caught this 19 lb striped bass in 1973 in snows cut.