Fisherman's Post Saltwater Podcast Series

This episode covers the ABCs of spanish mackerel trolling in the summertime, with a discussion that includes tackle, lures, locations, spreads, and techniques.

While bait pods on the beach are mentioned, this cobia fishing episode focuses on nearshore bottom fishing near "super-structures" by utilizing live bait, correctly positioning the boat, and covering the water column.

This episode provides an understanding of ledges, live bottoms, and wrecks off the southern NC coast, detailing the different target species that hold on each type of bottom and how to position for success on each from early to late summer.

This episode covers everything needed to start landing sheepshead this summer, including rod and reel setup, bait options and how to rig them, understanding sheepshead behavior, and when to set the hook.

This episode covers the times, tides, and water conditions to look for when targeting spanish mackerel from the pier, and then moves into rigs, tackle, positioning, handling your catch, and basic pier protocols to follow.

This episode covers the variables in place prior to the start of the mahi season, and then goes into finding fish with better data, weather windows and decision making, gear and setup, and trolling strategies and spreads.

This episode covers the locations where blackfins typically congregate in the spring, summer, and fall, and then details what to pull in the spread, where to place those certain baits and colors in the spread, what visual cues to look for, and ways to generate a bite if the action is slow.

This episode begins with what variables can help predict the start of the bonito season along the NC coast, then goes into detail on how to locate and stay on fish, and finishes with the different successful tactics, such as trolling, casting, and jigging.

This episode is a primer for anyone who wants to take advantage of the great sight casting action from winter into early spring, with discussions of areas of interest, variables that help or hinder, searching techniques, and bait choices.

This episode focuses on the challenges of teaching kids to fish in tandem with building a healthy connection to fishing, with specifics on how trolling, bottom fishing, and sharking trips can be best utilized towards those goals.

This episode helps anglers better understand the details to consider (and what they mean) when picking out a fishing rod, including rod power and action, line and lure rating, components (guide and grip options), and blank composition.

This episode encourages those cooking fish, especially those grilling fish, to focus on the process from start to finish, especially the use of fresh seasonings prior to grilling and the use of a variety of sauces after the grilling.

This episode covers what makes the Neuse and its tributaries a unique striper fishery, and then delves into understanding the movements of fish and bait, the best applications of topwaters and sub-surface/jigs, and modifying lures for best release practices.

This episode discusses the big black sea bass that move in closer to shore in the winter months, with a focus on locations, tackle, artificial and bait techniques, and regulation changes.

This episode celebrates another podcast year by asking a number of 2025 podcast guests questions like what was their favorite tackle in 2025, what did they learn about fish in 2025, and what fishery are they most excited about in 2026.

This episode continues the annual tradition of highlighting specific holiday season gift ideas for the angler in your life (or gift ideas for yourself), with suggestions on new developments and popular choices on gear, accessories, and tackle.

This episode focuses on late November into the winter months with advice on using solunar tables to find feeding trout, tackle prep and modification, boat control and approach, and subsurface tactics. 

This episode discusses how high speed trolling and live bait fishing for wahoo can work together to produce great results, and then goes in detail on finding fish, finding bait, lures, rigs, and tactics.

This episode covers the ways to take advantage of the numerous species that hold along the bridge pilings during the fall season, such as trout, red drum, striper, sheepshead, and black drum.

This episode gives insight on how to best capitalize on the world-class albacore fishery that appears each fall in the Cape Lookout area using a variety of artificial.

This episode prepares anglers for the big kings that move in close to the beach by covering water temps, tidelines and structure, bait choices, terminal tackle, and best tactics

This episode begins by talking about the types of locations that best hold feeding flounder and then goes into detail using live bait to target and land those feeding flounder.

This episode focuses on the bull drum fishery where the Pamlico River meets the Pamlico Sound, and covers the changing locations and strategies for the pre-spawn, spawn, and post-spawn runs in late summer and early fall.

This episode identifies productive offshore areas reachable within the 20-mile range, and covers the opportunities, strategies, and available species from the bottom to the top of the water column.

After touching on the topic of why target sheepshead from an ocean pier, this episode moves into a discussion of when to go, what bait and rigs to use, how to present the bait, and how to play the hook set.