Why Pocket Water Is the Coolest Place to Catch Summer Trout

When pocket water runs high in summer, tie on a simple nymphing rig and don’t be afraid to get soaked

FROM THE BANK, I pulled the knot tight on my dropper fly and looked out over the river, which sent a quick shiver of fear knifing through my excitement, like the feeling you have before you get on a carnival ride. The river was up, hurtling foam over the boulders after one of those long summer rainstorms that leaves wisps of steam spiraling above the fields—exactly how it looked when my grade-school buddy Jo and I first fished the spot, years ago.

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Off the Grid Adventure

https://www.carolinasportsman.com/columns/off-the-grid/hazel-creek-a-unique-off-the-grid-adventure/

https://www.carolinasportsman.com/columns/sound-sea/top-out-on-speckled-trout-in-october/

https://www.carolinasportsman.com/columns/cold-doesnt-mean-stop/

https://www.carolinasportsman.com/fishing/inshore-fishing/speckled-trout/dont-forget-fall-trout-fishing-in-the-neuse-river/

Alan Trojan with 24-3/4″, about 8 lbs, personal best

Bob Badzylo’s friends with Bull Reds

Chuck Fisher with a Bull Red and a Striper

Clint Morschauser with Personal best 26”, 8 lbs.

Mike Shannon “yaking” around in the creeks.

“Bodie’s Breeze,” captained by Steve Bodenheimer, Sgt. at Arms, captures First Place in the Inshore Category and Second Place in the Overall Tournament at the “OIB 59^th Invitational” September 12^th & 13^th. Fish caught in the Categories were flounder and red drum, along with Bonus Fish of silver perch, toad fish, ribbon fish and a large ray.
(Left to right :: Brian Brumbaugh, Steve Bodenheimer & Steve Pendergrass)

The Carolina Sportsman Magazine says “Summertime is tripletail time”

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While most anglers think of tripletails as a delicacy caught up and down Florida’s coast, North Carolina and South Carolina anglers can target them all summer and expect to take home a few fish every trip. And when the heat peaks, the tripletail action gets really hot.

Jordan Pate of Carolina Guide Service out of Pawley’s Island, said tripletail can make an inshore trip, even if redfish, flounder, specks and tarpon aren’t biting.

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