The cold has finally set in! The giant crappie have been biting deep in 20 to 40ft of water on live minnows and plastic Crappie Magnets! Most of these deep crappie are white crappie but if you move shallower you’ll catch dozens of black crappie. The bass have started biting swimbaits and Alabama rigs! We’ve […] The post December Fishing Report app...

The temperature finally started to drop….what a relief! With the cool nights moving in the bass and crappie started moving shallower. We continued to catch crappie on live minnows and casting 1/16oz jigs to brushpiles in 8 to 15 ft of water. The bass began moving shallow and were primarily caught on plastic worms and […] The post October and Novem...

While September is one of the hottest months of the year the bass and crappie continued to bite! BCGS served dozens of clients making memories along the way. The crappie stayed in 10 to 20ft of water….mostly caught on live minnows around isolated wood. The bass continued to school on the river channel ledges and […] The post September Fishing Repo...

This week was excellent weather and fishing but adjusting to the conditions was the key. I guided almost everyday and I saw these fish change their behavior as the water warmed. With the cooler water the bass were positioned lower in the water column but as the water warmed they moved vertically and by Saturday they were just under the surface of...

This week was excellent weather and fishing but adjusting to the conditions was the key. I guided almost everyday and I saw these fish change their behavior as the water warmed. With the cooler water the bass were positioned lower in the water column but as the water warmed they moved vertically and by Saturday they were just under the surface of...

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I hope everyone had a great and Merry Christmas!  I was back fishing today with William and Dara Blalock and boy what a crazy morning it was! Old Town Bait had run out of shrimp just as a I was pulling up so I made my way back south to Amelia Island Bait and Tackle and it seemed everyone with a boat was going fishing today - it was a zoo! But the...

Merry Christmas!  We closed Christmas Eve afternoon and will remain closed today.  Our office will be open at 7:00 a.m. on Friday.  We have one family rental for today that was reserved long ago; otherwise a couple of us will be getting all the rentals ready for tomorrow. With the weather on the warm side […] The post December 25th 2025 first appe...

The weather has been your average Hatteras winter where some days are tolerable and some days you don’t even want to go outside. The high was 52 while the low was 46 with light to gentle winds. Gusts up to 15mph. Currently it’s 48 feels like 47 with N winds around 3mph. Tomorrow temps should […] The post Hatteras Island Fishing Report appeared fir...