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June 11 Fishing Report: Tuna, Mahi, Bonito Bites Blazing on the Crystal Coast
Artificial Lure here with your June 11, 2025, Atlantic Ocean, North Carolina daily fishing report.
We’re starting the day with a sunrise at 5:53 AM and wrapping up at sunset, 8:18 PM. Tides are running in our favor for active fishing: we’ve got a high at 7:24 AM, low at 1:10 PM, and another high at 7:51 PM according to the latest Atlantic Beach tide forecast. A spring high tide is expected today, so look for strong current movement—always a trigger for bites.
Weather along the Crystal Coast is holding steady with light winds and pleasant early summer temperatures, and we’re coming off a stretch of beautiful days. Water clarity is good and bait has been piling up, which means fish activity is cranking up a notch.
Offshore, the yellowfin tuna bite has been on fire up in the northern Outer Banks, while mahi action remains fantastic from Hatteras down to the Carteret County region. Mahi have been taking trolled ballyhoo and bright skirted lures; if you’re running the blue water, keep some small jet heads handy. According to recent reports, the local ARs east of Atlantic Beach are still yielding the last push of big Atlantic bonito, topping 7 pounds. Live bait is getting the best results for bonito and cobia, especially around bait balls, rays, and sea turtles. A few cobia are also hanging around Cape Lookout and the inlet—try soaking live menhaden or eels.
Nearshore, Spanish mackerel and bluefish are stacking up, especially with the abundance of baitfish. Trolling Clark spoons behind #1 or #2 planers is the ticket. For surface action, nothing beats casting 3/4 oz metal jigs into busting schools, especially early and late in the day. Bottom jigging around the nearshore reefs is steadily producing flounder and gray trout. Flounder are thick; bouncing bucktails tipped with Gulp! or a strip of squid will do the trick.
Inshore, red drum activity is picking up in the sounds and marsh edges—focus on areas holding visible bait. Live or cut menhaden, finger mullet, or shrimp under a popping cork or Carolina rig work wonders. Speckled trout are around, though the topwater bite has been a bit slow; anglers using live bait are catching more fish.
For hot spots, check out the Atlantic Beach nearshore reefs (try reefs 315, 320, and 330), and don’t overlook the waters just outside Bogue Inlet and off Fort Macon for fast bluefish and Spanish mackerel action. For the adventurous, the Cape Lookout shoals are still producing mixed bags, especially with the larger pelagics moving through.
Thanks for tuning in and don’t forget to subscribe for your daily Carolina saltwater scoop. This has been a quiet please production, for more check out quiet please dot ai.
We’re starting the day with a sunrise at 5:53 AM and wrapping up at sunset, 8:18 PM. Tides are running in our favor for active fishing: we’ve got a high at 7:24 AM, low at 1:10 PM, and another high at 7:51 PM according to the latest Atlantic Beach tide forecast. A spring high tide is expected today, so look for strong current movement—always a trigger for bites.
Weather along the Crystal Coast is holding steady with light winds and pleasant early summer temperatures, and we’re coming off a stretch of beautiful days. Water clarity is good and bait has been piling up, which means fish activity is cranking up a notch.
Offshore, the yellowfin tuna bite has been on fire up in the northern Outer Banks, while mahi action remains fantastic from Hatteras down to the Carteret County region. Mahi have been taking trolled ballyhoo and bright skirted lures; if you’re running the blue water, keep some small jet heads handy. According to recent reports, the local ARs east of Atlantic Beach are still yielding the last push of big Atlantic bonito, topping 7 pounds. Live bait is getting the best results for bonito and cobia, especially around bait balls, rays, and sea turtles. A few cobia are also hanging around Cape Lookout and the inlet—try soaking live menhaden or eels.
Nearshore, Spanish mackerel and bluefish are stacking up, especially with the abundance of baitfish. Trolling Clark spoons behind #1 or #2 planers is the ticket. For surface action, nothing beats casting 3/4 oz metal jigs into busting schools, especially early and late in the day. Bottom jigging around the nearshore reefs is steadily producing flounder and gray trout. Flounder are thick; bouncing bucktails tipped with Gulp! or a strip of squid will do the trick.
Inshore, red drum activity is picking up in the sounds and marsh edges—focus on areas holding visible bait. Live or cut menhaden, finger mullet, or shrimp under a popping cork or Carolina rig work wonders. Speckled trout are around, though the topwater bite has been a bit slow; anglers using live bait are catching more fish.
For hot spots, check out the Atlantic Beach nearshore reefs (try reefs 315, 320, and 330), and don’t overlook the waters just outside Bogue Inlet and off Fort Macon for fast bluefish and Spanish mackerel action. For the adventurous, the Cape Lookout shoals are still producing mixed bags, especially with the larger pelagics moving through.
Thanks for tuning in and don’t forget to subscribe for your daily Carolina saltwater scoop. This has been a quiet please production, for more check out quiet please dot ai.
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By Quiet. PleaseArtificial Lure here with your June 11, 2025, Atlantic Ocean, North Carolina daily fishing report.
We’re starting the day with a sunrise at 5:53 AM and wrapping up at sunset, 8:18 PM. Tides are running in our favor for active fishing: we’ve got a high at 7:24 AM, low at 1:10 PM, and another high at 7:51 PM according to the latest Atlantic Beach tide forecast. A spring high tide is expected today, so look for strong current movement—always a trigger for bites.
Weather along the Crystal Coast is holding steady with light winds and pleasant early summer temperatures, and we’re coming off a stretch of beautiful days. Water clarity is good and bait has been piling up, which means fish activity is cranking up a notch.
Offshore, the yellowfin tuna bite has been on fire up in the northern Outer Banks, while mahi action remains fantastic from Hatteras down to the Carteret County region. Mahi have been taking trolled ballyhoo and bright skirted lures; if you’re running the blue water, keep some small jet heads handy. According to recent reports, the local ARs east of Atlantic Beach are still yielding the last push of big Atlantic bonito, topping 7 pounds. Live bait is getting the best results for bonito and cobia, especially around bait balls, rays, and sea turtles. A few cobia are also hanging around Cape Lookout and the inlet—try soaking live menhaden or eels.
Nearshore, Spanish mackerel and bluefish are stacking up, especially with the abundance of baitfish. Trolling Clark spoons behind #1 or #2 planers is the ticket. For surface action, nothing beats casting 3/4 oz metal jigs into busting schools, especially early and late in the day. Bottom jigging around the nearshore reefs is steadily producing flounder and gray trout. Flounder are thick; bouncing bucktails tipped with Gulp! or a strip of squid will do the trick.
Inshore, red drum activity is picking up in the sounds and marsh edges—focus on areas holding visible bait. Live or cut menhaden, finger mullet, or shrimp under a popping cork or Carolina rig work wonders. Speckled trout are around, though the topwater bite has been a bit slow; anglers using live bait are catching more fish.
For hot spots, check out the Atlantic Beach nearshore reefs (try reefs 315, 320, and 330), and don’t overlook the waters just outside Bogue Inlet and off Fort Macon for fast bluefish and Spanish mackerel action. For the adventurous, the Cape Lookout shoals are still producing mixed bags, especially with the larger pelagics moving through.
Thanks for tuning in and don’t forget to subscribe for your daily Carolina saltwater scoop. This has been a quiet please production, for more check out quiet please dot ai.
We’re starting the day with a sunrise at 5:53 AM and wrapping up at sunset, 8:18 PM. Tides are running in our favor for active fishing: we’ve got a high at 7:24 AM, low at 1:10 PM, and another high at 7:51 PM according to the latest Atlantic Beach tide forecast. A spring high tide is expected today, so look for strong current movement—always a trigger for bites.
Weather along the Crystal Coast is holding steady with light winds and pleasant early summer temperatures, and we’re coming off a stretch of beautiful days. Water clarity is good and bait has been piling up, which means fish activity is cranking up a notch.
Offshore, the yellowfin tuna bite has been on fire up in the northern Outer Banks, while mahi action remains fantastic from Hatteras down to the Carteret County region. Mahi have been taking trolled ballyhoo and bright skirted lures; if you’re running the blue water, keep some small jet heads handy. According to recent reports, the local ARs east of Atlantic Beach are still yielding the last push of big Atlantic bonito, topping 7 pounds. Live bait is getting the best results for bonito and cobia, especially around bait balls, rays, and sea turtles. A few cobia are also hanging around Cape Lookout and the inlet—try soaking live menhaden or eels.
Nearshore, Spanish mackerel and bluefish are stacking up, especially with the abundance of baitfish. Trolling Clark spoons behind #1 or #2 planers is the ticket. For surface action, nothing beats casting 3/4 oz metal jigs into busting schools, especially early and late in the day. Bottom jigging around the nearshore reefs is steadily producing flounder and gray trout. Flounder are thick; bouncing bucktails tipped with Gulp! or a strip of squid will do the trick.
Inshore, red drum activity is picking up in the sounds and marsh edges—focus on areas holding visible bait. Live or cut menhaden, finger mullet, or shrimp under a popping cork or Carolina rig work wonders. Speckled trout are around, though the topwater bite has been a bit slow; anglers using live bait are catching more fish.
For hot spots, check out the Atlantic Beach nearshore reefs (try reefs 315, 320, and 330), and don’t overlook the waters just outside Bogue Inlet and off Fort Macon for fast bluefish and Spanish mackerel action. For the adventurous, the Cape Lookout shoals are still producing mixed bags, especially with the larger pelagics moving through.
Thanks for tuning in and don’t forget to subscribe for your daily Carolina saltwater scoop. This has been a quiet please production, for more check out quiet please dot ai.