Wrightsville Beach Fishing Charters
Date: March 5, 2025
With the addition of a bigger faster boat, Im pleased to announce that we will now be offering swordfish charters. If this is something you’ve wanted to cross off your bucket list now is your chance! This will be a 14 hour trip that can take you up to 80 miles offshore of Wrightsville Beach … Continue reading “Swordfish Charter”
Date: March 2, 2025
A first for us while we were sword fishing. Oil Fish are extremely good eating in very SMALL portions otherwise you’re gonna need a surplus of toilet paper. Another thing that was surprising to me was how sharp their scales are. If you ever get the chance to hold one I would do so wearing … Continue reading “Oil Fish Surprise”
Date: February 25, 2025
Today myself and Mike Accattato, who’s family owns Terrazzo Trattoria in Wilmington, had a weather window to get offshore and try out the new trolling motor as well as take a look at some deepwater grouper spots I like to fish in the spring. All groupers were catch and release (grouper season opens May 1) … Continue reading “Winter Time Research”
Date: February 24, 2025
We took the Yellowfin out on Monday just to break it in and see how it fishes. Couldn’t have been more pleased! ended up catching a 300 pound sword for the first fish on the boat!
Date: February 1, 2025
Im very excited to announce that from now on I will be running a 32 yellowfin center console for our charters! The Cape Horn did its job but we needed something a little bigger and a little faster/more stable. The yellowfin is a foot longer, a foot wider, and 4000 pounds heavier. cruising at 30 … Continue reading “32 Yellowfin”
Date: December 7, 2024
Just because its winter doesn’t mean we stop fishing! We dont often have people book charters in the winter so when theres a weather window we are usually chasing tunas around. today me and my fiance got lucky with a 93 incher.
Date: November 20, 2024
The king mackerel fishing has been on fire and should stay that way for a couple more weeks if the water temperatures stay up. Get on them today!
Date: October 15, 2024
This group earned it today. The ocean was a little rougher than expected but these guys and girls didn’t complain once and had 10 wahoo in the boat before noon! Hopefully the bite keeps up like this, book now to get them while they’re biting!
Date: September 24, 2024
Great late summer wahoo bite today! these guys have been coming with me since the very start and have been rescheduled due to weather too many times to count. But their patience finally paid off and they were rewarded with a slick calm day and a lot of meat in the cooler!
Date: June 15, 2024
Fishing in the middle of the summer can sometimes be tough but theres always something to catch especially on our full day bottom trips. We had plenty of triggerfish and other good eats including this big fire truck red grouper!
Date: May 31, 2024
Today we took two of our repeat customers on a 12 hour trip, we started by trolling for black fin tuna. Once we had about a dozen of those and some mahi we switched gears and tried some jigging and found the pompanos biting! African Pompano are extremely good eating and put up a great … Continue reading “Spring African Pompano!”
Date: May 14, 2024
Yesterday I went Sword Fishing with Jackson David, a good friend of mine and owner of Intracoastal Angler. The fishing was great and we ended up catching two really nice swords, one was about 300 and the other about 240.
Date: August 22, 2023
Yesterday I took the day of from charter fishing and went with a long time friend out sword fishing. We ended up catching a few swordfish, one being 350 pounds that was hooked in the dorsal fin. The fish ended up taking us 7 hours to get in and drug us over 10 miles from … Continue reading “350 pound sword”
Date: July 24, 2023
The wahoo fishing for July has been very good this year! Great group today that had a mixed bag of wahoo, king mackerel, grouper, tuna and other bottom critters
Date: June 29, 2023
June can be hit or miss for groupers closer to shore, but offshore on our full day bottom trips have been producing some XXL gags!
Date: May 6, 2023
Had a great full day bottom/trolling trip today. May is an awesome month for a variety of tasty species! mahi, trigger and grouper pictured here
Date: June 24, 2022
We are happy to announce that we are now partnering with intracoastal angler fishing charters and offering daytime swordfishing trips. Give us a call for more info!
Date: June 24, 2022
The nearshore action for the 4 and 6 hour trips have been very productive. This picture was from a 4 hour trip where we didn’t go more than 5 miles off the beach that yielded plenty of Spanish Mackerel and some nice King Mackerel! all in site of the beach.
Date: May 29, 2022
Despite an extremely windy early spring the Mahi have shown up in good numbers during our 12 hour trips along with some Blackfin Tuna, Yellowfin Tuna and Wahoo.
Date: April 25, 2022
We had a 1 man wrecking crew today, after a slow morning bite it suddenly was all you wanted in the afternoon with multiple doubles and triples of Blackfin Tuna and an absolute heartbreaker at the end when we lost an absolutely giant yellowfin tuna. Matthew had all he wanted and then some, Plenty of … Continue reading “Blackfin Bonanza”
Date: March 24, 2022
March is typically a very windy/rough month here in coastal North Carolina. The few days we can get offshore can yield some fun results. Today we went on a jigging trip and had plenty of action ranging from groupers to African Pompano, the groupers were lucky it wasn’t May 1st!
Date: January 11, 2022
The Bluefin Tuna fishing was off the charts this January. We ended the season with 10 Bluefin, our biggest coming in at 114 Inches and weighing just north of 1000 pounds! He ate a live bluefish in about 20 feet of water. Just a stones throw from the beach.
Date: October 29, 2021
This 8 hour trip had their hands full with constant action from a very good class of king mackerel that ranged from 20 to 35 pounds along with a couple surprise mahi!
Date: March 9, 2021
Its rare that you get to see a Wahoo over 90 pounds, its really rare when you get to see two in one day over 90 pounds. Had an awesome day on the break with 5 wahoo and a tuna. The two bigger wahoo went 97 and 93 pounds.
Date: January 17, 2021
This year we fished Captain Rogers Wahoo tournament, a two month long aggregate wahoo tournament that supports the family of Captain Roger Gales who died of cancer a couple years ago. I worked with Roger at the Ocean Isle Fishing Center where I got my start in the offshore fishing world. I love to fish … Continue reading “Captain Rogers Wahoo Tournament Champions!”
Date: January 17, 2021
The offshore fishing out of Wrightsville Beach can be phenomenal at all times of the year. You can have a shot at big Wahoo and Blackfin tuna during the winter and fall (some Wahoo close to 100 pounds) in the gulf stream then Mahi, Blackfin Tuna, Yellowfin Tuna, Wahoo, Sailfish and marlin during the spring … Continue reading “Wilmington Deep Sea Fishing”
Date: November 4, 2020
Had the pleasure of taking a long time customer and family friend fishing today, ended up with 7 wahoo with 1 of them going 92 pounds!
Date: May 18, 2020
The month of may has been awesome so far, with Yellowfin Tuna and Mahi providing consistent fishing when the warm water pushes in close to the break. I took Erik and his crew on Thursday 5/14 and had steady action throughout the day. All crew members got their biggest fish of their lives, great job … Continue reading “Another Successful Stream Trip”
Date: May 12, 2020
The Yellowfin Tuna have made a surprise appearance off our coast for the first time in almost ten years!! we had 7 of these nice size tunas on Sunday and expect for them to stick around for a couple more weeks. Mahi were also very plentiful
Date: March 30, 2020
Yesterday I had a crew of five venture out to the gulf stream on a 12 hour trip. We ended the day with 4 wahoo and had plenty of action throughout the day, the fish are starting to show up along with warming water temperatures. If this trend keeps up the Mahi should be on … Continue reading “March Wahoo”
Date: March 23, 2020
The Atlantic Bonito (Albacore Tuna) have shown up in good numbers early. We ventured out about 3 miles yesterday and were able to catch 25 in a matter of a couple hours. These fish are extremely good eating and not to be confused with the Bonita that is not good eating. If your looking for … Continue reading “Nearshore Atlantic Bonito”
Date: March 9, 2020
Today I took a group of two to the Gulfstream on a 12 hour trip. We were met with constant action from Wahoo and Blackfin Tuna, with only two charter customers we could only keep our limit of 4 wahoo which was reached within an hour. We continued to catch and release wahoo for the … Continue reading “Wahoo Smackdown”
Date: December 6, 2019
The Blackfin Tuna were hungry and plentiful today. My clients stocked the cooler with plenty of fresh sashimi!
Date: February 18, 2019
Its that time of year! For the past couple years I’ve been going up to Nags Head in the outer banks of North Carolina for the Bluefin Tuna Season. This year the fishing was incredible and we were lucky enough to get one almost every time that we went out. The total tally at the … Continue reading “Wicked Tuna”
Contact Captain Ben today to book your next Wrightsville Beach fishing charter! Southern Run Fishing Charters offers Wrightsville Beach nearshore and offshore fishing trips to anyone visiting the Wilmington Area.
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