[Fish Dreamer]

well I am new to the waterways and I am looking for some good fishing spots near Morehead City area or New Bern. My family loves fishing so I broke down and bought a boat (Carolina Skiff DLV218) so we can have fun together. I am new to fishing and would like some suggestion for fishing areas and bait. While I am just happy being out on the water my family wants o catch some help...LOL

 

[Greenmonster]

Congrats on the new boat! That's awesome!

 

[wilykyote]

You'll love being on the water! Got my first boat last year and it is a game changer. For around Morehead, fish the high rise bridge between beaufort and morehead for sheepshead and various bottom fish. If you go inland under the high rise and head to the nearby marshes on you're left, you can find trout, flounder and drum. You can launch at the WRC slocum boat ramp in havelock, head down river around a mile or so and start picking up flounder, trout and drum. fish the bridges around new bern for striper. I like to launch at lawson creek park to do that.

 

[Fish Dreamer]

Thanks for the response and I will give that a try

 

[Aquahallic]

Congrats and great boat. If you don't already have a trolling motor it will be a great investment.

 

[crappie89]

Agreed on the trolling motor. With a boat that size you're looking at a 24 volt system. Go ahead and get a lot of practice backing it up and putting in back on the trailer so when the ramps get crowded this summer you won't have any problems. Congrats on the boat.

 

[DMYankee15]

I wish I had to "breakdown" to buy a boat.......hahaha.......sorry, but many of us have not had the problem of our families pressuring us to buy a nice skiff, I hope you learn to love it, congrats and great choice!!!!

 

[dbeam]

Welcome to the site and Congratulations on the new boat.

Darrell

 

[Greenmonster]

#1 on the trolling motor, and the best advice I didn't take the first time around was OVER BUY. I tried to get away with a little less thrust and opted not to go with the ipilot. Less than a year later, I was selling that mistake at a steep discount and upgrading. Let me absolutely assure you, the iPilot is worth every darned penny. Take a look at the video I posted - winds were blowing 15 and gusting to 30 mph, and we stayed rock solid. I'm a believer!

 

[meenyt]

Go for all the thrust you can get. It is nearly impossible to overbuy! The old saying of "better to have and not need" is truly applicable here. Congrats on new boat.

 

[led0321]

Congrats and welcome to the site. I bought the same boat a year ago and it has provided a lot of recreation for myself and my family.

 

[duhunter92]

Congrats! Definitely look at the 24 volt system for trolling motor. Best around is the Riptide trolling motor. I usually put it at Morehead and run up to Spooners Creek. I have had luck with flounder during the summer there. During fall, winter, and early spring i have caught red drum and trout in there. The AB bridge is where I have the best luck for sheepshead. Caught a 7 pounder at that bridge last summer. Go to port wall in morehead at low tide and grab some sea urchins off the wall. Store them in the livewell. When you are ready to get your bait, take some scissors and cut all of the spikes off. Hook it good and put it on the bottom by the bridge. I take my paddle and scrap a little barnacles off when the tide is about to start rising. It will draw fish in from around. Method has never let me down. The Haystacks provide good trout fishing as well. Behind Bear Island and in the flats, you will see schools of drum tailing. Get up on them without spooking them and you will have a great time working on them! Good luck!

 

[brickphil]

Nice boat! I've got one and have loved that thing for years! 3 - AR's out of Beaufort inlet will have you on some good action. Bucktails tipped with a 4" white gulp shrimp will have you flounder dinners in quik time. All white has worked best for me. Learn to read your bottom finder though.

if you just want to put the family on some excitement, you tube live lining finger mullet for huge Spanish. This is a great method almost anywhere 200 yards off the beach in June - oct.

Good luck!

 

[SurfRider]

Learning a little saltwater fishing from going to visit at the in-laws in Pensacola, Fla. Pretty sure the same tactics would apply here.

Live bait is always a great option, and one way to get your own if you ever are on the water and see bait schools is a Sabiki rig. They are cheap; just have to be careful not to tangle them. Tie a little dipsy weight at the bottom and let it 'tight line' through the bait schools. Or tip the hooks with a tiny piece of salt-cured shrimp and catch pinfish 3 at a time around the docks. Live pinfish a little under hand-size work great for bull reds.

Congrats on the boat. I was saving for a used boat, and my wife got pregnant... I knew I had 9 months to buy a boat or it would never happen! Best $6k purchase I ever made!

 

[dbeam]

Congrats on the boat. I was saving for a used boat, and my wife got pregnant... I knew I had 9 months to buy a boat or it would never happen! Best $6k purchase I ever made!

You are wise!

Darrell