It's not Corolla, but fairly close...if your staying up that way this may be your best option if you don't want to make the drive south.
There can be some good action around the Army Corps of Engineers pier. Spoons or Hopkins sweetend with either a chartruese or white bucktail work well during the day, plugs at night. Best bet is 2 hours either side of high tide...and even better around dawn or dusk. Blues and trout may be around as well but I would concentrate on the stripers congregating around the structure of the peir. Park in Osprey and walk south to the pier...this is tricky (you can be ticketed) but during the time you want to go there should be little or no tourist or fishing pressure there. There is a bit of a walk to the peir, but it gives you a chance to size up the surf as you approach, some holes are along the way pending on what the most recent storm left behind. Oh yeah, stay off the dunes, there may be unexploded ordinance still there...
There are several piers south of Duck and plenty of spots in the backwater.
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