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Best score today · 5 AM · Gray triggerfish

77/100Great

Now: 406 PM EDT
Best window: 6-7 PMHigh slack
Tide now: High1.2 ft

Data from: NOAA CO-OPS + NDBC + ECMWF + Open-Meteo Marine · Waterlands engine

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Best days to fish

Best: Sun · 85

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Conditions · 6 PM · now

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Time6PNOW

Score40Fair

Tide1.2 ftHigh

CurrentFlood0.6 kn · toward W

Wind13 kn NEgusts 29 · building

Sea stateModerate2.8 ft · 5 s

Air temp77°Warm

WeatherOvercast78% chance of rain

Water79°FObserved

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Current regulations

What you can keep here today

IN EFFECT NOW

No rule for Gray triggerfish is on file here yet, so its status is unknown, not closed. Confirm limits with NCDMF before you keep a fish.

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Source: NCDMF · synced today

Seasonality · 52-week view · this week ringed

When Gray triggerfish is best here

Shoulder season for Gray triggerfish · 5 more weeks at shoulder

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Spot profile

Walter Slough

Depth: 1-4 ftFlat bottom
Structure: Channel · Inner · Semi-exposedChannel · flat bottom
Season: Shoulder seasonGray triggerfish

NOAA NCEI DEM, sampled Sep 13 on a 3.4 m grid. Depths are feet below NAVD 88, not chart datum (MLLW), so they can differ from a chart by a few feet. Not for navigation.

About this spot

Fishing Walter Slough

Walter Slough is a channel in Croatan and Roanoke Sounds, North Carolina. Depth is 1-4 ft, with a flat bottom. Its profile reads channel, inner water and semi-exposed.

Waterlands scores 24 species here; the best right now are Atlantic croaker, spot and Florida pompano. It is peak season now for Atlantic croaker, spot, crevalle jack and king mackerel, and shoulder season for Florida pompano, black sea bass, black drum and weakfish. Atlantic croaker peak from August through October. Spot peak from September through October. Florida pompano peak from March through April and from October through November.

Tackle & technique

Gray triggerfish: Gray triggerfish hover a few feet over reefs, wrecks and ledges, usually in 60 to 200 feet, and often show up while snapper fishing. Use small, strong circle hooks with small pieces of squid or cut bait on a short bottom rig, because they nibble and strip big baits. Keep the bait just off the bottom and reel steadily at the first solid pull.
Atlantic croaker: Croaker feed on mud and sand bottom along channel edges, oyster bars, piers and deeper holes in bays and sounds, mostly in 5 to 30 feet of water. A two-hook bottom rig with small hooks and shrimp, bloodworm or squid catches them from piers, the surf and small boats. Fish the hours around high tide and into the evening.
Spot: Spot school over mud and sand in bays, tidal creeks and channels and around piers and bridges, generally in less than 25 feet of water. Fish a two-hook bottom rig with small hooks and bits of bloodworm or shrimp, and move until you find a school. In fall the biggest fish run out of the sounds past piers and inlets, and the bite can go all day.

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