Fisherman's Post Saltwater Podcast Series

To help locate black drum in the summertime, this episode discusses the three main types of locations, best bait choices, preferred conditions, and strategies.

Successful nearshore/offshore trips take planning, and this episode offers resources and strategies for making those plans, and then moves quickly into locating productive waters, getting some baits deep, and setting an effective trolling spread.

This episode touches on several ways to catch red drum in the summer, and then focuses more in-depth on using popping corks with live bait, cut bait, and artificials, along with a discussion of where, when, and how.

Learn about the tackle, bait, locations, positioning, and techniques involved in targeting spadefish on nearshore ARs off the North Carolina coast.

This episode moves quickly to cover many of the offshore targets and possibilities that are present in May off of the North Carolina coast, with time spent on the best rigs whether you're trolling, jigging, popping, and/or bottom fishing.

This segment features Capt. Pierre Agena explaining the strategy, tips and gear for finding Spanish Mackerel around inlets.

The Neuse River basin is a hot spot for wintertime trout, and this episode covers speed of fishing, size of lures, depth of water, type of gear, and what you can do when the trout aren't cooperating.

This episode begins with a detailed conversation on where to look for stripers, seasonal movements, tide, water depths, and water temps, and then it moves to topwaters, soft plastics, and hard baits.

This episode first lists all the terminal tackle you need, and then demonstrates step by step the rigging of a mahi belly, and finishes with a review of the effectiveness of a well-rigged bait.  

This year's Holiday Gift Guide focuses on items that make sense for any angler (inshore, nearshore, and offshore), with an emphasis on tools and apparel.  

After a discussion to better understand how to use your electronics to find grouper habitats (in the 55-75' range) such as low relief ledges, the conversation turns to best baits and rigs.

After a discussion of black drum locations such as oyster beds, rocks, and other structures, this episode covers gear and tackle, bait choices, positioning, and understanding the black drum bite.  

After following the trout from near the inlets to the marshes and then to the creeks, this episode covers float rigs, bait (shrimp and other live bait options), and positioning and techniques.  

The first part of this episode covers how to find and locate late fall and winter wahoo, and then the conversation covers terminal tackle and techniques for both meat fishing and high speed trolling.  

After covering the habitats and conditions conducive for speckled trout success, this episode then moves to the best lure selections and techniques to apply to those habitats and conditions.  

The fall king mackerel bite just off Brunswick County beaches is some of the best king fishing of the year, and this episode covers time of year, areas to fish, baits to use, rigging, and techniques.   

The most popular fall surf targets--red drum, bluefish, spanish, pompano, and sea mullet--are on the leaderboard for the annual Hatteras Island Surf Fishing Challenge, and this episode breaks down tactics for targeting each one.   

This episode helps you understand when the big red drum season starts off Brunswick, as well as when it really kicks in, and then advises on bait, rigs, positioning, and presentation.

This episode covers how to scout and set up on the different types of productive bottoms for flounder off of Atlantic Beach, and then discusses the different techniques used for both bait and artificials.  

Beginning with a review of popular artificial bait choices and options, the talk moves to places to hunt flounder based on tide, the proper presentations, and the popping cork option. 

After a detailed review of setting up the float rig, this episode discusses how to implement the float rig to locate fish in large and new areas, as well as the best bait to float for each of the inshore slam species.  

Starting late summer the bigger kings move closer to shore, and this episode details locations, weather variables that affect the bite, bait, rigs (including a wire king rig demo), and presentation.  

Fishing just off the beach in the summertime opens up a number of possibilities, and this episode talks about finding productive structure, as well as the tackle and techniques for grunts, sea bass, and flounder (among other species)..