Learn more about the deep sea fishing in the Wilmington, NC 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.
There are quite a few fishing charters that will fish the Gulf Stream waters out of Wrightsville Beach, NC. These types of trips will most likely run into the 10 to 12 hour range because of the distance you have to go to get to the Gulf Stream current. 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 Wilmington, NC. 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
