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Rip Currents Along North Carolina Beaches
A hazard to swimmers but a help to fishermen.
By: Bill Hitchcock
Are North Carolina beaches safe to swim? I was asked that question recently. The short answer is that all North Carolina beaches are safe. But at any given time a particular place on the beach may not be. We are Read more...
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Rip Currents
April 16th, 2010 
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Posted in Area Info, Saltwater 
Tags: beach, berm, bill hitchcock, fish, fishermen, fishing, flounder, north carolina, ocean out suck, red drum, rip currents, sea mullet, spot, swimmer, waves 
No Comments »North Carolina Fishing Report
April 15th, 2010 admin Crystal Coast of North Carolina Saltwater Fishing Report
By: Bill Hitchcock
April is a month the coast transitions from winter doldrums to spring time hot and heavy fishing action. Mid-April particularly so. Traditionally around tax day water temperatures both inshore and offshore jump up by several degrees. This in turn brings the fish in and turns the bite Read more...
Posted in Saltwater Fishing Tags: bill hitchcock, billfish, black drum, black sea bass, blowfish, bluefin tuna, bogue inlet, crystal coast, fish, fishing, fishing report, grouper, gulf stream, north carolina, offshore, outer banks, pier, report, sea mullet, snapper, tuna, wahoo No Comments »North Carolina Red Drum
April 9th, 2010 admin
North Carolina Red Drum
A year in the making, “North Carolina Red Drum is the most complete half hour documentary ever produced on North Carolina’s state fish! Produced by Bill Hitchcock this television special covers biology, life cycle and migration, commercial and recreational fishing, management, underwater footage of drum in their natural habitat and plenty of Read more...
Posted in Video & TV Tags: bill hitchcock, biology, drum, fishing, life cycle, migration, north carolina, red drum, television, underwater, video No Comments »Captain George Beckwith Interview
April 6th, 2010 admin Saltwater Catch Radio
Today’s guest is Captain George Beckwith of Down East Guide Service. Captain Beckwith is a marine biologist, charter boat captain, tournament champion, national television celebrity and international fisherman.
Listen to the interview Bill Hitchcock did on April 5, 2010 with Captain George just days after George returned from Costa Rica. Topics discussed in this exclusive Read more...
Posted in Area Info, Saltwater Catch Radio Tags: april, bass, bill hitchcock, boat, captain, Captain George Beckwith, charter, cobia, cold stun, costa rica, crystal coast, Down East Guide Service, fish, fisherman, fishing, fishing report, hydrology, marine biologist, north carolina, Pamlico, river, roanoke, saltwater catch, sound, speckled trout, Striped bass, stripers, tarpon, television, tournament, trout, weldon No Comments »Crystal Coast Real Estate Market Report
April 5th, 2010 admin Crystal Coast Real Estate Market Report
By: Bill Hitchcock
What is the housing market doing along the Crystal Coast?
There is a whirl wind of information (and quasi-information) going around about the current housing market. Most reports and forecasts are speculative at best. So, I thought it time we take an another look at the facts. Which of Read more...
Posted in Real Estate & Mortgages Tags: absorption rate, atlantic beach, bath, beach, beaufort, bedroom, bill hitchcock, carteret county, crystal coast, emerald isle, federal government, fishing, for sale, homes, inventory, Market Report, morehead city, neuse river, newport, Pine Knoll Shores, real estate, supply of inventory No Comments »Pilot TV Show, “Carolina Offshore”
March 27th, 2010 admin 
Pilot show for the television program “Carolina Offshore” produced by Bill Hitchcock
Carolina Offshore is the television program that features world class fishing, boats, captains, mates and the anglers that makes offshore fishing from the Carolina coast so famous! If it it’s out in the deep blue, we’ll catch it and you’ll see it on Carolina Offshore!
Note Read more...
Jerry Schill On Law Suit & Beasley Center
March 5th, 2010 admin Jerry Schill On Turtle Law Suit & Beasley Center
By: Bill Hitchcock
Jerry Schill, former President of the North Carolina Fisheries Association a commercial fishing trade organization speaks freely on the Saltwater Catch Radio program about the current law suit to ban gill nets filed on behalf of the Karen Beasley Sea Turtle Rescue and Rehabilitation Center located in Topsail, NC.
Mr. Read more...
Crystal Coast Housing Market Report
March 4th, 2010 admin Crystal Coast Housing Market Report
By: Bill Hitchcock
The housing market across the entire country has been in a tail spin for several years now. The question forefront in everyone’s mind is when is it going to end? To understand where we are headed we have to understand where we have been. Here we are going to Read more...
Posted in Real Estate & Mortgages Tags: atlantic beach, beach, beaufort, broker in charge, cape lookout, Craven, crystal coast, emerald isle, fishing, fishing report, for sale, Harkers Island, Havelock, home, home for sale, house, national association of realtors, new bern, newport, north carolina, Onslow, Pamlico, Pine Knoll Shores, real estate broker, sold, swansboro, water, waterfront No Comments »Turtles, Lies and Gill Nets
March 2nd, 2010 admin Listen to the radio broadcast now online!
A MFC Commissioner says he’s only been told half truths. The NCDMF Director gets heckled when he states that NC is not the only state that allows gill netting. Is the Karen Beasley Sea Turtle Hospital breaking the law? All of this because of the law suit filed that Read more...
Posted in Area Info, Saltwater Catch Radio, Saltwater Fishing Tags: bill hitchcock, boating, broadcast, Endangered Species Act, fishing, gill netting, jerry schill, Karen Beasley Sea Turtle Hospital, ncdmf, north carolina, North Carolina Fisheries Association, online, radio, saltwater catch, turtles, WNBU 94.1FM No Comments »Speckled Trout Cold Stun & Kill Special!
February 21st, 2010 admin 
Speckled Trout Cold Stun & Kill Special! Get The FACTS!
SEGMENT ONE
Beth Burns of NCDMF reveals new discoveries of the Cold Stun Event. It wasn’t just cold waters that affected these fish!
Was this a “jubilee” of dead fish? Interesting details of what was found in 90% of sites investigated for cold stun/kills. Find out what gill Read more...
Posted in Area Info, Saltwater Catch Radio Tags: albemarle sound, beth burns, bill hitchcock, coastal fisheries reform group, cold stun, core sound, fishing, florida, gill nets, jarrett bay, kill, little alligator river, north river, oyster, oyster dredges, Pamlico, pamlico river, pungo river, saltwater catch, speckled trout, speckled trout cold stun, texas, water temperatures No Comments »
