North Carolina Speckled Trout Fishing Secrets

Are you a North Carolina fisherman? Are you looking to travel to North Carolina sometime soon and want to try your hand at some speckled trout? The speckled trout are famous in North Carolina waters and there are fishermen's tales of some real big ones coming out of those waters. If you want to be successful, you need to know the real secrets to fishing for North Carolina speckled trout.

Here are some tips to keep in mind:

Use bigger bait for bigger trout
Use bait close to natural for the trout in the area
Use topwater bait for feeding fish
Use a quieter, stealthier approach for bigger trout
Try wading instead of boat fishing
Try not to let them see you first
Fish at night for finding bigger trout (and more of them during feeding time)
Bigger trout feed at night
There is less boat traffic at night
There is less competition from other fishermen
Fish around structures for big trout
Rock piles
Bridges
Fallen trees
Jetties
Docks and docked boats

When fishing for North Carolina speckled trout, it's also important to learn as much as you can about their habits. The secret to catching them is to see them before they see you and to know where they will be. Pulling this off requires a great understanding of the speckled trout in North Carolina, their behaviors and patterns, mating patterns, feeding patterns and more.

Sometimes you need to switch to another bait, other times you need to slow down your retrieve. Trout tend to be lazy about their food. They want it to literally drop down on top of them. They don't want to have to chase it down. When it comes to trout eating, they usually prefer feeding at night so this is a good time to go fishing.

Some of the best North Carolina speckled trout fishing secrets revolve around night fishing. Night feeding speckled trout are a greedy bunch and you have a high chance of success at bringing in some fine fish. There are also fewer people fishing at night so you have less competition. When you find a good spot of trout at night, there may not be anyone else around at all.

Speckled trout come to the surface waters to feed at night and watching them chase live shrimp jumping across the surface is both entertaining and also effective in catching them yourself. The numbers of speckled trout that come out to feed during these times can be large and they make a lot of noise. If you've never heard it yourself, it's often been compared to someone throwing gravel into the water over and over again.

When you find a feeding spot of speckled trout at dusk or night like this, you've hit a true jackpot. Now what do you need to do to bring them in? First, you're going to want to go prepared with a good bait. What you consider "good" bait will depend on your preferences as well as where and when you are fishing.