Currituck Sound

[Jumping Jimmy]

Fished all over the sound but mostly around Knotts Island. Early spring you could catch a hundred crappie around the duck blinds drowning minnows. Then it was waders and the inner tube until it got warm then usually I would wade in jeans and tennis shoes. I have been back there a few years ago. You could catch fish but they were in very limited areas. I hear it's really improving especially in Northern back bay.
The demise of the fishery was mostly due to agricultural runoff and runoff from development. This killed the grass and the shallow water would be loaded with sediment. Multiple factors happening at the same time doomed the fishery.

[Blue Steel]

guy took me from roanoke to perquimmens 2 days in a row and didnt seem to know what he was doing. never will forget that ride. Yeah the cottonmouths down there are something else

Did you happen to see the secret squirrel Blackwater compound?

[Lightning 6]

https://flymenfishingcompany.com/

Short video chronicling the fall of Back Bay Va fishing.

[juice780]

Fished all over the sound but mostly around Knotts Island. Early spring you could catch a hundred crappie around the duck blinds drowning minnows. Then it was waders and the inner tube until it got warm then usually I would wade in jeans and tennis shoes. I have been back there a few years ago. You could catch fish but they were in very limited areas. I hear it's really improving especially in Northern back bay.
The demise of the fishery was mostly due to agricultural runoff and runoff from development. This killed the grass and the shallow water would be loaded with sediment. Multiple factors happening at the same time doomed the fishery.

Did they ever spray the grass

[hatcreek]

Back bay 77ish?

That's a great Marty Smith Team Honda MX tee.

[Jumping Jimmy]

Did they ever spray the grass

No, not to my knowledge.

[PatriotAW4]

Whenever we go to Hatteras (usually twice a year) I see bass boats everywhere around the Currituck sound and Elizabeth City. I've heard of some giant bags coming out of there but I'm always telling myself, man that water ain't even brackish - it's dang near 100% saltwater!

We used to vacation there every year for over a decade and I always just assumed the sound was saltwater, turns out it's not. Salt content is less than 5 PPT which a bass can easily tolerate compared to the ocean which is around 35 PPT. However we used to fish on the sound side of Nags head and would catch Spot, Croaker, Flounder, and Blue Crab, never a freshwater fish that I could remember.

[Meadows]

We used to vacation there every year for over a decade and I always just assumed the sound was saltwater, turns out it's not. Salt content is less than 5 PPT which a bass can easily tolerate compared to the ocean which is around 35 PPT. However we used to fish on the sound side of Nags head and would catch Spot, Croaker, Flounder, and Blue Crab, never a freshwater fish that I could remember.

It would depend on how close you're fishing to the inlet, or how far inshore you are. I'm sure the salinity varies based on how close you are to the ocean. Same thing with the James River here. You can catch bass all the way down close to the Chesapeake, but at some point the salinity is gonna get too high and you'll stop catching them. I've fished the Pamlico Sound my entire life, never caught anything other than saltwater fish out of it.

[Rip Bass]

Did you happen to see the secret squirrel Blackwater compound?

That’s at the mouth of Perquimmons River on the western point,it’s called Harvey point. The camp was built on an old WW 2 sea plane base and some of the infrastructure is still there,like some really wide boat ramps. You can fish right up to the base on the Perquimmons and I’ve caught a ton of bass around the seawall there. But if you do,you’ll be watched. As in an armed guard will come down to the bank and watch you,some of them are friendly and will talk to you but will not discuss anything about the base. They haul in old junk cars and practice blowing them up,you’ll hear some very loud explosions there ,they will make you jump out of your skin if you’re close by.

[chris c]

I think salinity increasing is affecting alot of the rivers/sounds. I am noticing cypress trees all over dying, I assume from the higher salinity levels.

[basshammerwannabe]

That’s at the mouth of Perquimmons River on the western point,it’s called Harvey point. The camp was built on an old WW 2 sea plane base and some of the infrastructure is still there,like some really wide boat ramps. You can fish right up to the base on the Perquimmons and I’ve caught a ton of bass around the seawall there. But if you do,you’ll be watched. As in an armed guard will come down to the bank and watch you,some of them are friendly and will talk to you but will not discuss anything about the base. They haul in old junk cars and practice blowing them up,you’ll hear some very loud explosions there ,they will make you jump out of your skin if you’re close by.

right across the river/mouth from there i remember fishing a ditch after a huge rain.. rain so bad water was coming in the rooms at the sportsmen but at the mouth of that ditch/creek water was swirling from the current coming in and man ive never seen so many fish in a tiny hole. Would be stripers non stop then the bass would move in then the stripers.. Only time ive ever caught striper on a texas rig and caught multiple on it.. thin kit was a lizard

[basshammerwannabe]

I think salinity increasing is affecting alot of the rivers/sounds. I am noticing cypress trees all over dying, I assume from the higher salinity levels.

they do say we are in a drought

[berudd]

Just a guess, but I doubt inshore bottom trawling has helped the grass/ habitat much.

[white gambler]

That’s at the mouth of Perquimmons River on the western point,it’s called Harvey point. The camp was built on an old WW 2 sea plane base and some of the infrastructure is still there,like some really wide boat ramps. You can fish right up to the base on the Perquimmons and I’ve caught a ton of bass around the seawall there. But if you do,you’ll be watched. As in an armed guard will come down to the bank and watch you,some of them are friendly and will talk to you but will not discuss anything about the base. They haul in old junk cars and practice blowing them up,you’ll hear some very loud explosions there ,they will make you jump out of your skin if you’re close by.

Rip, I think the Harvey point defense testing center that you mentioned is not the place blue steel was talking about. He was referring to the 7,000 acre compound special op training center hidden in the woods just north of the Pasquotank river in Moyock. Used to be called Blackwater, now it's called Academi. A lot of interesting things around those areas. You really want to talk about remote check out on google earth the clandestine air force/navy range hidden in the Alligator river wildlife refuge just east of the river. I think it's an urban simulator military bombing test area and whatever else they do out there.

[RedShad]

Rip, I think the Harvey point defense testing center that you mentioned is not the place blue steel was talking about. He was referring to the 7,000 acre compound special op training center hidden in the woods just north of the Pasquotank river in Moyock. Used to be called Blackwater, now it's called Academi. A lot of interesting things around those areas. You really want to talk about remote check out on google earth the clandestine air force/navy range hidden in the Alligator river wildlife refuge just east of the river. I think it's an urban simulator military bombing test area and whatever else they do out there.

If you pick the right day to fish over there, it is like an air show.


We used to vacation there every year for over a decade and I always just assumed the sound was saltwater, turns out it's not. Salt content is less than 5 PPT which a bass can easily tolerate compared to the ocean which is around 35 PPT. However we used to fish on the sound side of Nags head and would catch Spot, Croaker, Flounder, and Blue Crab, never a freshwater fish that I could remember.

There used to be a good population of bass in Kitty Hawk Bay but have not fished over there in 20+ years. The salt could have moved them out.

[basshammerwannabe]

If you pick the right day to fish over there, it is like an air show.


We used to vacation there every year for over a decade and I always just assumed the sound was saltwater, turns out it's not. Salt content is less than 5 PPT which a bass can easily tolerate compared to the ocean which is around 35 PPT. However we used to fish on the sound side of Nags head and would catch Spot, Croaker, Flounder, and Blue Crab, never a freshwater fish that I could remember.

There used to be a good population of bass in Kitty Hawk Bay but have not fished over there in 20+ years. The salt could have moved them out.

When my boater in a state tournament took me to perquimans 2 days in a row all he talked about was man "if i felt comfortable to make the run we'd make the run to kitty hawk and be done with 12-14lb limits in 30 minutes max".. that would of been nice and actually won that tournament easily, roanoke was far as you could see into the woods and everything was flooded bad but after riding with him to perquimans i thank God we did not make that run. this was back around 2005-2008