Outdoors: Adventures int he Carolinas

Nags Head area: Blues, croaker, whiting in the surf and at piers; Oregon Inlet: Limits of dolphin offshore, including many of gaffer size. Blues, cobia and Spanish mackerel inshore. Big blues, red drum and sheepshead around the pilings at the Bonner Bridge; Hatteras Island: Lots of large dolphin offshore of Hatteras Village, along with billfish. Flounder for anglers drift-fishing in the sound. Whiting in the surf at Ramp 30 near Avon; Ocracoke Island: Spanish mackerel in the surf on metal lures. Pompano and whiting right in the wash of the surf on sand fleas. Big red drum by boat in the inlet. Dolphin, sailfish, wahoo offshore; Morehead City area: Billfish, dolphin, wahoo offshore when sea conditions are favorable. Red drum in the marshes.

Grand Strand area: Good to excellent in Murrells Inlet for flounder, mainly on mud minnows. Spottails, or reds, in the creeks on live baits. Blues, pompano, Spanish mackerel and a few king mackerel at piers. Blackfin tuna, plentiful dolphin and wahoo to 93 pounds offshore. Cobia and Spanish mackerel at the 3-mile Artificial Reef; Charleston area: Spottails around docks and on the marsh flats on live baits, topwater plugs and Gulp! lures. Flounder around inshore structure on menhaden and mud minnows. Good to excellent offshore for dolphin, along with billfish. King mackerel in the shipping channel; Beaufort area: Good to excellent for cobia in the Broad River on eels and other live baits. Spottails during high tides on mud minnows worked around grassy edges and oyster beds.

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