This section provides information on more than 500 publicly accessible places to fish in North Carolina. You can find information on the location of publicly accessible fishing piers, boat ramps, and canoe launches, as well as places that provide bank and wade fishing opportunities. The NCWRC Fish Attractor Map and Coordinates are provided, as well as additional resources such as the NCWRC county trout fishing maps and a link to the North Carolina Division of Marine Fisheries website.

The interactive fishing access map is intended to be a comprehensive information source for anglers looking for a place to fish in North Carolina.  The map allows you to view public fishing areas and NCWRC managed trout streams throughout the state.  The viewer can search for public sites based on the type of access they are interested in (i.e. piers, boat ramps, universal access, etc.), the species they are interested in, access sites within a specific county, sites within a specific distance from their location, or by waterbody name.  Options to view county boundaries, coastal and joint waters jurisdictional boundaries, and NCWRC game lands are also provided.

The NCWRC, along with several cooperators, have routinely placed fish attractors in public lakes and ponds throughout North Carolina.  (Click here for images of fish attractors.)  While many of these sites are marked with buoys, many are unmarked and can be hard to locate without GPS coordinates.  The above map contains information on more than 500 fish attractor sites deployed by NCWRC in over 50 water bodies.  Also, GPS coordinates for each are provided below. 

Fish attractor coordinates for downloading to personal GPS devices:

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Coastal Recreational Fishing

General information about fishing North Carolina's coastal waters (NC Division of Marine Fisheries website)