Hatteras Island Fishing Reports

Offshore, Near Shore, Pamlico Sound Fishing Reports

8/27/2026 Longer Days Sportfishing

White Tail Tropicbird seen and photographed on a Longer Days Charter trip.

One of the nice things about offshore fishing is sometimes we get to see unique bird species. This is the first White Tail Tropicbird I’ve seen this year. It hung out for a few minutes, but it was hard to get a good picture of. Beautiful bird though. Longer Days Sportfishing Charters.

8/27/2026 Sea Dream Sportfishing Charters

Video of angler fighting wahoo.

Watch this Facebook video of our angler bringing in a nice wahoo. Sea Dream Sportfishing

8/24/2026 Longer Days Sportfishing

Anglers holding up a nice Hatteras wahoo on their sportfishing charter.

Is always a welcome catch when you get one large wahoo to save your charter day. Longer Days Sportfishing Charters.

8/24/2026 Speck Tackler Pamlico Sound

Pamlico Sound light tackle anglers showing off their catch of bluefis and spanish mackerel.

Connor and Caroline Shapiro from upstate New York, fished with me for the first time and we caught Bluefish and Spanish Mackerel. We had to wait to see what the weather was going to deal us before we could settle into fishing. Speck-Tackler Light Tackle Charters.

8/20/2026 Gecko and Drumrunner (Ocracoke)

  • Gecko charter with nice spanish mackerel and bluefish.
  • Gecko charter with nice spanish mackerel and bluefish..
  • Young Gecko angler learns the ropes on an inshore charter.
  • Young Gecko anglers at the helm.
  • Young Gecko anglers at the helm.

Fishing has been very productive. This is a great time of year to take the entire family (even the youngsters) on a memory for a lifetime inshore fishing charter. Gecko and Drumrunner Sportfishing Charters (Ocracoke).

8/20/2026 Missphitty Pamlico Sound (Frisco)

  • Young angler kisses giant red drum before releasing it.
  • Two Missphitty anglers with a nice red drum.
  • Missphitty soundside angler with a nice red drum.
  • Missphitty sunset angler trip.
  • Not a big catch of bluefish but fun.

The weather this season has been relentless and our summer Pamlico Sound fishing can be spotty at times right now. The spring was excellent for some nice red drum but as the weather keeps switching it got really rough to put together the normal banner catches. If the weather settles we expect the fishing to get hot, especially this fall. We offer trips with multiple on-the-fly variations so that if the fishing is slow we can save the day for your family with another fun soundside adventure. Missphitty Pamlico Sound Family Adventures.

8/19/2026 Longer Days Sportfishing

Longer Days had an incredible catch of blackfin tuna and mahi out of Cape Hatteras.

The blackfin tuna showed back up today in force. We started fishing on a couple different weedlines in the morning, caught 1 mahi and missed a couple billfish. One was a pretty little blue marlin on the teaser that switched over to another bait, but unfortunately didn’t stay tight for us. Heard the blackfin tuna were biting so we jogged a few miles to get there and it was game on once we put baits out. Longer Days Sportfishing Charters.

8/19/2026 Sea Dream Sportfishing

Sea Dream Charters had a great catch of Hatteras on blackfin tuna and mahi and a wahoo.

We squeaked out a meat slam today. Started the day catching a wahoo, picked up a lone mahi on the way to the tuna grounds, and finished the day picking at blackfins tuna. Have a few days still open so get up with us! Sea Dream Sportfishing, Hatteras

8/14/2026 Gecko and Drumrunner (Ocracoke)

  • Gecko charter with nice bunch of mahi.
  • Gecko angler hugs massive red drum he caught.
  • Gecko angler hugs massive red drum he caught.
  • Gecko angler hugs massive red drum he caught.
  • Gecko angler hugs massive red drum he caught.
  • Lady Gecko angler hugs massive red drum she caught.
  • Lady Gecko angler hugs massive red drum she caught.
  • Beautiful twilight picture of angler holding huge red drum.

Fishing has been very productive. Here are some of our catches over the past week. Gecko and Drumrunner Sportfishing Charters (Ocracoke).

8/14/2026 Speck-Tackler Light Tackle Pamlico Sound

  • Clients with a good mixed soundside catch on Speck-Tackler
  • Good angler with a huge summertime red drum.
  • Hatteras soundside angler with a nice speckled trout.
  • Hatteras soundside angler with a nice bluefish.
  • Toothy bluefish.
  • Two anglers holding up massive red drum.

Steve Ocampo and his friend Ryan, both from New Jersey, are very good fisherman. We called a mixture of Gray Trout, Spanish Mackerel, Bluefish and oversized Drum. Hopefully, I'll see these boys again sometime. Speck-Tackler Light Tackle Charters.

8/13/2026 Sea Dream Sportfishing

  • fishing report images from Sea Dream Charters
  • fishing report images from Sea Dream Charters
  • fishing report images from Sea Dream Charters
  • fishing report images from Sea Dream Charters
  • fishing report images from Sea Dream Charters
  • fishing report images from Sea Dream Charters

Fishing has been very productive. Here are some of our catches over the past week. Sea Dream Sportfishing, Hatteras

8/13/2026 Sea Angel Sportfishing

  • fishing report images from Sea Angel Charters
  • fishing report images from Sea Angel Charters

8/3 We had Kevin and a couple of friends fish with us Saturday. Caught our blackfin tunas early and tried to find some dolphin in the afternoon. The dolphins didn’t corporate so we wahoo fished our way back down the beach and jigged for jacks to finish the day! We are still trying to put together a make up for Friday the weather is looking beautiful. $1950 with mates tip included, split evenly between how ever many people sign up, call or text 757-870-1680

8/6 Got on the blackfin tunas again today! Jeff and his family had a blast! Sea Angel Sportfishing Charters.

Earlier Jan thru July 2026 Fishing Reports

Tuna chasing bait.

There is always something jumping at Cape Hatteras!