Fisherman's Post Saltwater Podcast Series

The wahoo bite off Hatteras is close and happens year round, and this issue focuses on opportunities in the winter months by covering the strategies behind finding fish, choosing lures and bait, and setting a spread.

This episode helps anglers understand red drum behaviors during the late fall transition and then gives strategies on baits, locations (ICW, shallow bays, and river systems), gear and tackle, and techniques.

This episode addresses the best bait options throughout the seasons for many of popular inshore species, including redfish, trout, black drum, sheepshead, and spanish mackerel, and also addresses the science behind why they are the best bait options.

Learn about the exciting false albacore bite in the fall that happens out of Beaufort Inlet, as this episode covers when to go and how to find fish, as well as spinning and fly setups and techniques.

The striped mullet move down the North Carolina coast in the fall, bringing with them great red drum and sea mullet fishing from the beach, and this episode covers locations, bait, rigs, fundamentals, and more.

To help kayak anglers target the trophy red drum fishery in August and September, this episode discusses ports, fish locations, gear, artificial strategies, and safety considerations.

This episode encourages anglers to participate in king mackerel tournaments by talking about how to best prepare for those KMTs, including the importance of bait, locations, fish mapping, and networking.

This episode helps anglers capitalize on the bull (old) red drum fishery on the Neuse by explaining the signs that the fish have moved in, and then covers locating and approaching bait balls and with the proper tackle setups and options.

To help locate black drum in the summertime, this episode discusses the three main types of locations, best bait choices, preferred conditions, and strategies.

Successful nearshore/offshore trips take planning, and this episode offers resources and strategies for making those plans, and then moves quickly into locating productive waters, getting some baits deep, and setting an effective trolling spread.

This episode touches on several ways to catch red drum in the summer, and then focuses more in-depth on using popping corks with live bait, cut bait, and artificials, along with a discussion of where, when, and how.

Learn about the tackle, bait, locations, positioning, and techniques involved in targeting spadefish on nearshore ARs off the North Carolina coast.

This episode moves quickly to cover many of the offshore targets and possibilities that are present in May off of the North Carolina coast, with time spent on the best rigs whether you're trolling, jigging, popping, and/or bottom fishing.

This segment features Capt. Pierre Agena explaining the strategy, tips and gear for finding Spanish Mackerel around inlets.

The Neuse River basin is a hot spot for wintertime trout, and this episode covers speed of fishing, size of lures, depth of water, type of gear, and what you can do when the trout aren't cooperating.

This episode begins with a detailed conversation on where to look for stripers, seasonal movements, tide, water depths, and water temps, and then it moves to topwaters, soft plastics, and hard baits.

This episode first lists all the terminal tackle you need, and then demonstrates step by step the rigging of a mahi belly, and finishes with a review of the effectiveness of a well-rigged bait.

This year's Holiday Gift Guide focuses on items that make sense for any angler (inshore, nearshore, and offshore), with an emphasis on tools and apparel.

After a discussion to better understand how to use your electronics to find grouper habitats (in the 55-75' range) such as low relief ledges, the conversation turns to best baits and rigs.

After a discussion of black drum locations such as oyster beds, rocks, and other structures, this episode covers gear and tackle, bait choices, positioning, and understanding the black drum bite.