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Comment by Andy is OptiMystic on January 30, 2015 at 6:09pm

I got into a long debate on another board about what is and is not tidal; I insulted someone by expressing my opinion that salt doesn't swim upstream. Once you start finding flounder and specs in the river proper the panfish tend to be in side creeks.

The salt is about 100 miles downstream from here. No dams and only a few class I-II rapids in between so really determined fish make it up here, but the fishing isn't like the more famous parts of the Neuse. It's a small Piedmont river. You won't see any motors in this part.

Both types of shad, but I think mostly hickories. You need to go further down stream to get into a bunch but they do make it up here. 

Comment by Jim Gronaw on January 30, 2015 at 5:50pm

ah...the Neuse River...I've been looking at it for a while.

Shad sounds like a great gig, if you time it right. Hickories or whites (American) shad? Crappie or gills in the lower stretches that are tidal?

Comment by Andy is OptiMystic on January 30, 2015 at 2:29pm

Another well known but surprisingly little fished local area. These places I am posting today are heavily visited parks and public areas; no secrets being given away. At the left edge of this picture is a freeway bridge crossing right over where the boat ramp is. Decent ramp for the river; you can back right down to the water. The river is still fairly small and shallow in spots, so this is kayak and canoe country. It's flat water upstream for maybe a half mile to a rapid. In that stretch there are lay downs, boulders in the water, some deep pools and freeway noise; you won't escape that. But I have caught a few good gills in this stretch and I can be on the water in about a half hour. In a couple of weeks the shad will run all the way up here. There are no dams between this and the ocean. Some stripers will make it in April.