Pleasure Island Flounder Fishing

Pleasure Island Flounder Fishing

Pleasure Island flounder fishing is really popular here on our beach, we have several local flounder tournaments put on by The Got-Em-On Live Bait Club. Carolina Beach residents are very competitive when it comes to flounder fishing. Lot’s of people enjoy flounder fishing one factor is you really don’t have to have a big boat just a simple aluminum Jon boat will get you into flounder fishing. Some of your biggest flounders are caught fishing the inside waters like Snow’s Cut and the Cape Fear River.

Fishing is what we did today, went to Muddy Slough this morning, started fishing my usual areas, fish just did not want to bite. I moved around a number of times this morning trying to locate the red drum, the wind was really blowing around 15 to 20 knots out of the southwest making it tough to even anchor the boat.
I finally found a small feeder creek where the wind was not blowing quite as hard, landed a couple of keeper flounder. It was a pleasure fishing with Nathanael Mathis and his family, Isaiah you did a great job landing those flounder. Rigs used were standard Carolina Rig, with a 1/0 Kahle Eagle Claw hook, a 1/2 oz. egg sinker on a short piece of Ande 30 lb. test leader. Baits were small finger mullet, I also like to use a strip bait occasionally for flounder on a Butter Bean Bucktail jig, casting this rig onto a sandbar and retrieving it slowly starting and stopping it will put a flounder in your boat.

I fished Snow’s Cut this year just before the flounder season opened catching two flounders weighing 10 lb. a couple of 8 lb. and several fish in the 4 lb. size. Snow’s cut is a great place to flounder fish, I just don’t recommend fishing it on the weekends because of the heavy amount of boat traffic that travels going into the Cape Fear River.

Cape Fear Guide – Capt.Mike Dennis – 910-619-0928

210 Peninsula Drive Carolina Beach, N.C. 28428