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It’s current, current, current for specks
Current, current, current. If there’s one factor that stands out to guarantee success catching spring speckled trout, it’s current. No current. No fish. Plenty of current, plenty of fish.
Month: May 2016
Speckled Trout
It’s current, current, current for specks
Finding current is the key to catching speckled trout in the springtime, and you can catch them with a variety of lures. […]
Bass Fishing
Fishing pressure is overrated, veteran bass pro says
Marty Stone learned plenty during his 20-year career as a professional bass fishermen, what with four Bassmaster Classic berths and four shots at the FLW Tour Championship under his belt.
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NCWRC reopens Masons Landing boating access area
N.C. Wildlife Resources Commission has completed renovations and reopened the Masons Landing boating access area located at 625 Clarks Neck Road in Washington in Beaufort County. […]
Inshore Fishing
Plan out kayak fishing trips
The weather was set up for a perfect weekend float down the creek, the days not too hot and the nights not too cold. The time had come.
Bass Fishing
A great time to be on top – You can’t beat May for topwater bass action
May is a great bass-fishing month around South Carolina, and it’s special to me because it’s one of my favorite times to fish a lot of topwater baits. The two months when I catch a lot of fish on topwater are May and September — May because you have a lot of postspawn fish and September because they’re moving up as the water cools.
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Don’t anchor out again
Anchoring technology has come a long way since the early days of boating. Power-Poles and Minn Kota Talons are remote-controlled anchoring systems that are great for inshore anglers, and Minn Kota’s iPilot and Motorguide’s xi5 trolling motors lock on to a satellite through GPS and keep a boat’s position steady, leaving anglers free to fish without having to worry about the boat slipping off the fishing hole.
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It’s yellowfin tuna time
Yellowfin tuna may be just a memory for bluewater fishermen along much of the south Atlantic coast, but if you’re heading out of Oregon inlet in a big offshore boat, they’re very much a part of the fishing scene, especially in June.
Bass Fishing
Fish Kerr Reservoir from shallow to deep for bass
This month, guide Joel Richardson of Kernersville literally fishes Kerr Reservoir, aka Buggs Island from top to bottom, as bass make their way from the creeks into the main lake.
Bass Fishing
Calling topwaters
Lookout Shoals isn’t one of the biggest reservoirs in North Carolina, but its relative small size, 1,200 acres on the Catawba River between Lake Hickory and Lake Norman, is a big factor in it being one of the state’s best summer lakes for bass fishing.