The Clarkspoon has been around since 1927, and it’s been filling coolers with Spanish mackerel ever since. Dense enough that, even in the small sizes, you can fire one a mile and hit that distant ...

Spanish mackerel are showing strong in area coastal waters, and anglers from Matanzas Inlet to Brunswick soon will be slamming the speedy, good-eating, and fun-to-catch mini-mackerel. Right now the ...

The wind was steady and the seas inviting. My son, Justin, was back in Wilmington and wanted to catch a few fish to take back to his home in Augusta, Ga. “I haven’t been in the ocean in a long time,” ...

Dennis Barbour headed out of Carolina Beach Inlet, sliding his 24-foot Carolina Skiff over a sandbar while watching his depthfinder screen like an osprey watching the water for the flip of a mullet's ...

A couple of hundred yards to the northeast, a quartet of small gulls could be seen working the bay surface, scouting the movements of fish below, waiting for the tracks of the predators to cross those ...