Drum on the Edges, Pompano in the Wash — Week of June 8

Water at the Point is sitting at 76.8°F — prime pompano territory. Tides are running thin this week, so don't overthink the windows. Fish the incoming pushing toward the 3:18 AM high if you're an early riser, but the better play is hitting the drop from the 15:46 high into the 22:03 low. Pompano Hi-Lo with fresh sand fleas in the trough, and keep a Fish Finder rig with cut mullet soaking for a slot drum cruising the slough. North wind 7-18 will stack some foam on the bar — work it.

Avon Pier's running the same tide cycle. Spanish macks and blues should be working the second bar early before the wind ramps NE into the afternoon. Throw a white bucktail jig and burn it back, or pin a finger mullet on a Kingfish wire rig off the end if you're chasing a king. Pompano in the wash on the Hi-Lo — same story as the Point. Wind will get sporty by evening, 20 mph gusts, so plan the morning session.

Hatteras Inlet is where I'd put my money for drum this week. 76.8°F water, flounder staging on the channel edges, and drum working the flat edges on the tide change. Fish the last of the outgoing into the 10:06 AM low with a Flounder Carolina rig and a live mud minnow or finger mullet on the drop. Yellow/chartreuse bucktail tipped with Gulp will get bit too. Watch the current — it'll rip on you mid-tide.

Oregon Inlet's a touch warmer at 78.6°F and the tide swing is bigger — 1.0ft high at 01:38, low 0.2ft at 08:48. Sound side flats are the play for drum, especially the last two hours of the incoming up to the 14:38 high. Topwater stick bait at first light over the grass edges, then switch to a Fish Finder rig with cut bait once the sun's up. Flounder in the cuts on a Carolina rig.

Down in Murrells Inlet, you've got real tide to work with — 4.7ft high at 01:33, dumping out to 0.4ft at 07:49. That's the window. Fish the last of the outgoing into dead low for redfish pulling out of the spartina, and flounder will be sitting on the channel drops waiting. Carolina rig with mud minnows on the drops, and throw a 4" topwater stick bait at the grass edges on the incoming push back to the 14:05 high. Specks in the deeper holes on a jig early.

Folly's running 78.4°F with a similar tide — 5.0ft high at 01:42, low 0.3ft at 08:16. Whiting and pompano in the trough on the Hi-Lo with shrimp or sand fleas. Redfish working the wash on the incoming, throw a Fish Finder with cut mullet or work a topwater at first light before the SW wind builds. Light wind day overall — take advantage.