Carolina Outdoor Journal is Back

My good friends,Joe and Hunter Albea, at Carolina Outdoor Journal have started a new chapter in the Journal…..Carolina Outdoor Journal Recast, which is a new YouTube series featuring the same great fishing you have seen on many past episodes of the Journal on...

February Shadness!

This is from 1984 and to my knowledge one of the first times our Eastern NC shad fishing has been featured on film. If you’ll notice the guy in the back of the boat catching all the fish, that’s my friend Joe Albea, creator and host of the Carolina Outdoor...

Late January Lower Roanoke Striper Report

The winter striper fishing remains steady. We are having to hunt the fish, but hunting is paying off with consistent catches of 20-50 fish. It seems like the 100 fish days that were so common a decade ago are less common, but the fishing still remains “damn...

Big Lower Roanoke Stripers

Yesterday we got into some beautiful 5-8 pound fish. I don’t weight them, but I bet we had a couple that were pushing 10. Those are nice fish for what we normally see in this fishery, which is mostly 15-25″ fish. Steve, Mark, and David all had a great time...

Lower Roanoke River Stripers

More of the same from our last trip on the lower Roanoke with long-time guest John and his friend Ed…….steady winter striper fishing that will only get better as more fish move into the river. There are some nice fish 5-8 pound fish around. Open Days: Feb....