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	Docks = Flounder Magnets June 15 at 7:00 am Since man began floating vessels across rivers and oceans, symbiotic relationships have formed and continue to provide benefits to users above and below the water’s surface. The thousands of docks peppering public waterways in the Cape Fear region are ideal places to find many angler favorites, including highly prized doormat flounder. However, not all docks are created equal; some will produce better than others.

	Don’t forget Snow’s Cut June 15 at 7:00 am The Cape Fear River and the ICW between Carolina Beach and Wrightsville Beach are prime places to find doormat flounder during the summer. Yet, Snow’s Cut, the 1.75-mile-long, man-made canal connecting Myrtle Grove Sound to the river can be one of the best places in the entire region to hook up with a trophy flounder.

	Let conditions dictate presentation June 15 at 7:00 am Flounder are ambush feeders, relying solely on the sense of sight to obtain their daily sustenance. In fact, the three flounder native to the Atlantic coastline — Gulf, southern and summer flounder — are all part of the fluke family, with two eyes on the top side of their heads. Through thousands of years of adaptations, the flounder is shaped and colored to blend in with its environments, so there’s little chance that their preys knows danger is just a few inches away. And these adaptations enable flounder to live in a variety of clarity conditions, including super-clear waters. But water clarity and water conditions can change very rapidly in estuarine environments, and anglers must find ways for flounder to continue to see their lures.

	Cape Fear striper spawn and migration June 15 at 7:00 am Stripers have become a species of special interest in the Cape Fear River basin. Before the construction of three locks and dams between Wilmington and Fayetteville in the early 1900s, the Cape Fear was considered one of the top five striper rivers in the country. The dams, which were built to accommodate barge traffic to Fayetteville, did not have fish ladders, and with them blocking the river, stripers could no longer reach their natural spawning grounds above Fayetteville and their numbers dwindled.

	Cape Fear River striper moratorium and stocking June 15 at 7:00 am A moratorium against possessing stripers from anywhere in the Cape Fear River basin below the B. Everett Jordan Dam has been in place since 2008. Beginning in 2003, the N.C. Wildlife Resources Commission conducted comprehensive surveys on the striper populations in the Cape Fear River system and determined the population was dangerously low and with minimal recruitment. After seeing this for five years, the moratorium was instituted to try to give the stripers some protection to increase their numbers.

	Speckled trout bite great in waters around Manteo June 10 at 8:06 am Most fishermen don’t think of the Albemarle and Croatan Sounds as hotspots for speckled trout and red drum, but Richard Andrews of Tar-Pam Guide Service knows differently and is leading his clients to nice specks and reds to over-slot size, plus a few striped bass and flounder just for variety.

	Flat Out Fun - It's 'doormat' time for Cape Fear flounder fishermen, and docks are a good place to start June 01 at 7:00 am June brings real change to inshore waters with spring coming to a close. The perfect storm brews in the creeks and sounds along southeastern North Carolina's coast; local estuaries boom with life: floods of crabs, slurries of small fishes and shrimp and boatloads of jazzed-up gamefish, including America's favorite fluke. It's time for doormat seekers to connect with trophy flatfish in the lower Cape Fear River and the neighboring Intracoastal Waterway between Snow's Cut and Wrightsville Beach.

	Earn your summer stripes - Post-spawn fish, returning downriver, have made Wilmington a summer striper destination June 01 at 7:00 am A growing number of fishermen are aware of the striped bass in the Cape Fear, Northeast Cape Fear and Brunswick rivers around Wilmington during the winter, but there isn’t nearly as much recognition for those same fish as the weather and water warms from April through June.

	Latest 'gamefish bill' is effectively killed in N.C. House May 30 at 11:29 am Republicans in the N.C. House of Representatives on Wednesday agreed to effectively kill the latest attempt to pass a “gamefish bill” that would have ended commercial fishing for speckled trout and redfish in all North Carolina waters, and striped bass in North Carolina’s inland coastal waters.

	Cobia bite is approaching full blast off Atlantic Beach May 29 at 10:26 pm Matt Lamb of Chasin’ Tails Outdoors in Atlantic Beach said cobia fishing has picked up a lot over the past week, with fish moving inside the inlets as well as along the beach, the fish fish are within range of just about anyone with a boat.

	Nearshore gamefish have turned on off Wrightsville Beach May 23 at 9:50 pm Warm weather finally arrived in Wrightsville Beach this week, and the fish showed up off the beach, feeding like they’ve missed a few meals, according to Capt. Rick Bennett of Rod Man Charters, who said Atlantic bonito, Spanish mackerel, false albacore and bluefish have flocked to nearshore waters.

	Fishermen in Carolinas will have longer black sea bass season this year. May 15 at 8:53 pm The upcoming black sea bass season will likely be at least twice as long as it’s been in recent years, thanks to a May 13 decision by the South Atlantic Fishery Management Council.