NC Fisherman.Net

North Carolina is full of places to fish. Small mountain
streams offer excellent trout fishing (the best ones are the
hardest to get to). The larger mountain rivers usually have
brown trout, smallmouth, snd muskellunge. The mountain
reservoirs offer pike, walleye, smallmouth bass, as well as some
warmer water species like largemouth bass, sunfish, and
catfish. (A note about fishing for NC mountain trout- our
trout spook easily. Low and slow is the best way to approach
them)

Piedmont creeks have bullheads and sunfish, as well as an ocassional largemouth. Piedmont area
rivers usually have a good catfish population. Piedmont reservoirs offer an excellent
opportunity to catch many species. Largemouth, stripers, crappie, white bass, hybrid bass,
catfish, and sunfish are abundant in many of these reservoirs. The Piedmont also has many
small ponds and lakes which offer the boatless angler great fishing for largemouth, catfish,
sunfish, and crappie.

The Coastal Plain of North Carolina offers slow moving, large rivers. Many of these rivers
host spawning runs of stripers, American shad, and Hickory shad. Anglers flock to these areas
during the spring spawning runs. The harvest of river run stripers is closely regulated by the
Wildlife Resources Commission. There are many shallow lakes and backwater in this area of
the state that offers opportunities to catch pickerel, gar, largemouth bass, catfish, and bowfin.

The North Carolina coast is divided into the Outer Banks area to the north and everything
else to the south. Both areas offer great fishing for flounder, red drum, seatrout, and many
more. The Outer Banks offer some of the best saltwater fishing found anywhere, but don't let
that stop you from fishing the southern coastline. It is highly underrated.

I could list several places to fish but all you really need is the information above and a good map
to get started. If you are new to fishing North Carolina, and want to have success right away,
then you may want to consider hiring a guide.