Fishing has been all over the place. There are fish everywhere……….and sometime nowhere. The trout have been biting intermittently with mixed success. If you are there when they are feeding, it’s game on. If you are there when they aren’t really turned on, then you have to thump them on the head with it and maybe they will bite it. More consistent is the striper and puppy drum bite. We have had to fish for them in separate areas, as the stripers have been concentrated more in the upper river and the pups have been in the marshes downriver. On many occasions while trout fishing in the creeks, we have encountered all three mixed together. What is really getting me excited, however, are all the schools of puppy drum that are ganging up downriver. I have a feeling that this winter I will be chasing those fish around and hopefully catching a few while site casting a fly rod when I’m not up on the lower Roanoke catching the striper bite. Should be an awesome winter. I’m pumped!
If you would like to book a weekend date for either winter redfishing on the Pamlico or winter striper fishing on the lower Roanoke, you better start thinking about getting your group and your date together and getting on the calendar.
