Make sure you stay inside the markers when you run out because it is shallow. When you get ready to turn right to shoot the inlet you will see high dollar houses along the left shore line with sand bags up against the rocks etc. Get as close as you can to the shore line and drift out or in depending on the tide and stay close to the beach where it drops off into the channel . I lost a 7 or 8 pound trout there last october drifting a gulp shrimp along the bottom about sun up and it holds some nice flounder also. If you go out the inlet and turn left along the beach there are some nice black drum crusing around early and late in the day along with big puppy drum again using gulp baits on the bottom drifting maybe a 2oz yellow or white bucktail to keep it on the bottom...I used to live in Cape Carteret and I fished that inlet 3 or 4 days a week for 9 months or so ....LOTS of fishies in that area ....Frank