http://gillwetter.com/reports/SE-NC/rod-man Just another Gillwetter.com weblog Tue, 09 Mar 2010 14:17:54 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Hi Folks, It has been a long and cold winter, but they say spring is less than 2 weeks away. Judging by today’s weather and the temps forecast for the next week, maybe spring will arrive on time.Experience tells me that the fish seem to have a better understanding of when ... http://gillwetter.com/reports/SE-NC/rod-man/2010/03/09/spring-fishing-is-just-around-the-corner/ Hi Folks, This is the turkey week version of my report. It actually looks like we will have decent weather for fishing this week and weekend, which is good because the trout bite is getting hot! I had the rare chance to go fishing with a buddy and caught some very ... http://gillwetter.com/reports/SE-NC/rod-man/2009/11/24/trout-trout-and-turkey-this-week/ Hi Folks, Can you believe it? Everything is setting up for a big trout run and here comes the remnants of Ida. Sunday the water was clear, the bait was thick, the winds were light and variable, and the trout were biting. Now we have wind and rain and rain and ... http://gillwetter.com/reports/SE-NC/rod-man/2009/11/11/the-trout-bite-is-on-at-wrightsville-beach/ Hi Folks, Fishing has been pretty darn spectacular this past week. The high point has been an estimated 45 pound red drum. Please check This Week’s Fishing Report on my page to see this beautiful fish. We have caught flounder and trout as well, but this pic had to come out ... http://gillwetter.com/reports/SE-NC/rod-man/2009/10/27/red-flounder-trout-it%e2%80%99s-all-biting-wrightsville-and-carolina-beaches/ Hi Folks, It seems the weather continues to not want to give us a break. Light rain, nor’easter type winds, and soon…but we are still catching fall fish! Reds, flounder, trout, spanish (when we can get out) are all providing good close in action. Looking ahead, the weather does seem to ... http://gillwetter.com/reports/SE-NC/rod-man/2009/10/15/fall-fishing-is-into-full-swing/ Hi Folks, Water temps remain relatively high, in the 77-78 range, and fishing is high on the heat gauge as well. Inshore, reds, flounder and trout are heating up the action. Near shore big spanish are providing the heat and offshore, the kings and albacore are providing some smoking action. Now here’s ... http://gillwetter.com/reports/SE-NC/rod-man/2009/10/07/inshore-fishing-is-firing-off-in-the-wrightsvillecarolina-beach-area/ Hi Folks,This week’s picture is not representative of the fish we have caught, but of the great time I had in Chicago last week celebrating my 40th anniversary…at Wrigley Field. Now on to some fishing news: we have had a persistent NE wind for several weeks now, at least it ... http://gillwetter.com/reports/SE-NC/rod-man/2009/09/23/fall-fishing-getting-into-full-swing-around-wrightsville-and-carolina-beaches/ Hi Folks, We are finally getting that first wave of cooler weather and the fish are already responding with “enthusiasm”. Fishing in the ocean lately has been a bit difficult with the higher seas, but inshore the redfish and flounder have been biting well and some specks are starting to show ... http://gillwetter.com/reports/SE-NC/rod-man/2009/09/03/inshore-fishing-for-reds-and-flounder-hot%e2%80%a6wrightsville-carolina-beach/ Hi Folks, The past two weeks have been pretty awesome for fishing. We have had big catches of reds and flounder inshore and spanish macks near shore. Looks like Bill will give us a little swell activity that may slow the ocean fishing a bit for a short period, but otherwise ... http://gillwetter.com/reports/SE-NC/rod-man/2009/08/19/hot-august-equals-hot-fishing-wrightsville-and-carolina-beach/ Hi Folks, It has been a good week of fishing, highlighted by the tremendous spanish mack bite. We had two days of catches over 30 fish. Near shore and inshore the fishing has been steady and good. Now here’s my report: Inshore: Water temps are round 84. The nice flounder are still ... http://gillwetter.com/reports/SE-NC/rod-man/2009/08/04/just-about-everything-is-biting-near-carolina-wrightsville-beach/