Albemarle Sound N.C.

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Comment by Jeffrey D. Abney on January 19, 2015 at 9:59am

Often catch multiple species in waters right off the sound as well.......most people believe the fresh water species won't be in certain areas because of their proximity close to the sound.......In 2008 I was fishing roughly six miles from the sound and caught a puppy drum, a flounder, a redbreast sunfish, a largemouth bass and some big female bluegill on the same dock..........I caught several limits of crappie last year just yards from the sound in a feeder canal and some folks wouldn't believe me but I'm good with unproven theories especially when it protects the thousands of hours I have on this body of water........some years are tougher than others.......if you have major drought conditions the salt water will impede further up and we have some fish kills.......too much rain or hurricanes threaten the estuary with extended periods of hypoxia and subsequently significant fish kills.......but it has been since 2003 for the last major kill on most of this region and we are celebrating locally with both numbers and quality of the freshwater gamefish.......

Comment by jim cosgrove on January 18, 2015 at 8:48pm

really a cool area jeffrey.beginning of the intercoastal?my son almost landed a job near you,but found one locally.i love google earth,you sure landed in great spot.

Comment by Andy is OptiMystic on January 18, 2015 at 8:23pm

Rephrasing it as a question - do you catch gills and crappie anywhere in sight of the sound proper or are you miles up where the channel gets skinny? Are flounder and gills ever in the same stretch?

Comment by Andy is OptiMystic on January 18, 2015 at 8:11pm

I am trying to correlate to slightly closer water. There are gators by the battleship in Wilmington, so I guess there may be gills still around there but I never really here of any. It seems like very near and in the transition zone is a good place to find the really big ones. 

Comment by Jeffrey D. Abney on January 18, 2015 at 7:15pm

It is brackish Andy and fed more by wind tides passing over the sounds which are the largest bodies of water pictured inland above.......I catch trophy gills in all the rivers pictured here that spill into the Albemarle Sound.......my home is almost dead center in this picture north of the sound........

Comment by Jeffrey D. Abney on August 21, 2012 at 1:55am

Funny you mentioned that JIm....when my daughter lived at Fort Meade we would meet in Pocomoke City sometimes on the weekend for dinner and family time with the grandchildren....I slowed down every time I crossed the Pocomoke River and even went down to the city park to ask the locals but never found out anything....It looks like the waters I fish from the tanic standpoint....Appears the tide may affect it a little but don't know......

Comment by Jim Gronaw on August 20, 2012 at 7:45pm

Jeffrey...I have heard that the Pocomoke River, on Marylands lower Eastern Shore, has dynamite bream fishing. Alas...I am 200 miles from it!

Comment by Jeffrey D. Abney on August 20, 2012 at 6:49pm

This is an aerial view of my region.......roughly 12 rivers within an hour of my house and several lakes and national wildlife refuges as well.....The Albemarle Sound is the widest body of water covering 80 miles west to east...you can see why this is brackish water connecting to the Atlantic Ocean on the far right.....You can also see how remote much of this area is.....I fish the rivers on the Northern side of the sound most often because I live very close to several of them.......This region is called the Dismal Swamp of Virginia and North Carolina......Big Bluegill Country and I'm grateful for that!

Comment by David, aka, "McScruff" on November 23, 2011 at 5:43pm

Yeah thats a whole lot of moving around!

Comment by Jeffrey D. Abney on November 23, 2011 at 9:43am

This is why I fish Gills from a BASS boat. There are roughly 12 rivers pictured in this aerial shot and I may fish more than one on any given trip, which means covering several miles to reach the next destination. This is a 200 square mile view of Northeastern N.C. and extreme Southeastern Virginia. Several of North Carolina's and Virginia's oldest natural lakes are pictured. Lake Drummond in Virginia near the center of the photo and Lake Phelps the biggest lake pictured here bottom center of the photo....Much of this land is National and State protected refuges to protect the Wetlands which in turn really helps the Fisheries!