Deep Sea / Offshore Fishing


Learn more about the deep sea fishing in the Brunswick Islands area.


Fishing for Pelagic Fish


What are Pelagic Fish?

Pelagic fish get their name from the area that they inhabit called the pelagic zone. The pelagic zone is the largest habitat on earth with a volume of 330 million cubic miles. Different species of pelagic fish are found throughout this zone. Numbers and distributions vary regionally and vertically, depending on availability of light, nutrients, dissolved oxygen, temperature, salinity, and pressure.

While most anglers will fish closer to shore in the Brunswick Islands area, there are some charters that do go out to target the pelagic species in the Gulf Stream.  Plan on trips in the 10 to 12 hour range because of the distance you have to go to get to the Gulf Stream currents.  The fishing is very good out there though for tuna, wahoo, mahi mahi and billfish.


Bottom Fishing


Reefs & Wrecks

There plenty of offshore structure in the offshore waters near the Brunswick Islands.  There are many fishing charters that will fish the offshore waters here.  You may be going anywhere from 10 to 20 miles out and possibly further to fish these offshore structures.   Some of the types of fish you may be targeting on the reefs and wrecks are snapper, grouper, king mackerel, Spanish mackerel, amberjack, cobia, sharks, hogfish, tripletail, jack crevalle, barracuda and more.


Artificial Reef Locations

https://www.deq.nc.gov/about/divisions/marine-fisheries/public-information-and-education/coastal-fishing-information/artificial-reefs#:~:text=The%20North%20Carolina%20Division%20of,valuable%20biological%20and%20ecological%20roles.