We fish the Neuse River and Pamlico Sound for speckled seatrout, redfish, striper, flounder, giant red drum,bass, crappie, perch, bream and shad trips and the Crystal Coast for false albacore, bonito, bluefish, cobia, sharks and giant red drum on both fly or light tackle.
Spec Fever Guide Service fishes from a 22 ft. Frontier bay boat and can fish up to 3 comfortably, but for fly fisherman we recommend 2 anglers. Trips are priced per boat from 1 to 3 anglers. All your tackle, a blanket saltwater license, ice and bottled water is provided.
Capt. Gary Dubiel has over 40 years of fly fishing experience and an IGFA Fly Rod World Record holder. He is a fly designer and tier and a fly casting instructor. He and his fly patterns have been published in many books and magazines. Capt. Gary is a regional Advisory Staffer for TFO and Edge Rods and Pro Staff with Cortland Fly Line and has the boat packed with top notch gear.
Spec Fever Guide Service offers fishing trips out of Oriental and New Bern. Here's a guide to what we have going on;
- January: Stripers, specks, panfish out New Bern
- February: Stripers, shad and panfish out of New Bern
- March: Stripers, shad, bass and panfish out of New Bern and spotted seatrout out of Oriental
- April/May: Specks and redfish out of Oriental, top water stripers, redfish, bass and panfish in New Bern
- June/July: Specks, redfish, flounder and the occasional giant redfish out of Oriental
- August and September: Giant redfish out of Oriental
- October-December: Specks, redfish, stripers and flounder out of Oriental and New Bern