Dan Hardy of Southern Shores holds up a beautiful 25 inch-long slot drum he caught while bottom fishing with cut mullet on Coquina Beach north of Oregon Inlet mid-December. Hardy said he saw a few other anglers catch them that afternoon as well.

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