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Catfish Corner
If Scott Van Horn is public enemy No. 1 to Lake Gaston’s catfish, you’ll have to forgive him. If he hadn’t talked, thousands more of them would be alive. […]
Articles by Dan Kibler
Fishing
Senko is a multiple-use lure
Robert Karbas of Wake Forest is the undisputed king of the Senko in North Carolina. […]
Bass Fishing
Low Down at High Rock
To some folks, bass-fishing heaven may be the month of April at Buggs Island Lake when the water floods the shoreline bushes and gum trees, and everyone with a rod ties on a spinnerbait. […]
General
Listen, kids: Father’s Day near
Every year as the end of May approaches, I struggle with Father’s Day presents — not the ones my kids get me, but the annual walk through sporting goods stores trying to figure out what my father needs. […]
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Secret Water
When Jeffrey Thomas was growing up in the Lee County town of Broadway, there was only one place to go fishing — at the outskirts of town, below the junction of the Deep and Haw Rivers, an old, abandoned dam impounded a section of the Cape Fear River. […]
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Sibling Slab Rivalry
Falls of the Neuse Lake and Jordan Lake have grown up together — an hour’s drive apart on either side of the Raleigh-Durham area — since they were impounded more than 20 years ago. […]
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Slab City
How good is the crappie fishery at Lake Wateree?
Well, Nick Babin and Brian Davis live in Gilbert at the south side of Lake Murray, and when they want to catch big slab crappie and lots of them, they drive completely around their home lake and head up the road to Lake Wateree, downstream from the town of Great Falls on the Catawba River, forming the border between Fairfield, Lancaster and Kershaw counties. […]
Fishing
Chatterbait next hot lure
The Chatterbait, a lure that can best be described as the hybrid of a spinnerbait, jig and crankbait, has taken the bass-fishing market by storm in recent months. […]
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Spring tuna run along North Carolina’s Outer Banks is top-drawer
It’s not exactly a scene that would be considered heroic by the stretch of any angler’s imagination, but it’s one that will be forever burned in his or her mind. […]
Getting in Gear
Don’t let price blind you
About 30 years ago, my father hauled me out of bed on Christmas morning for a plane ride to south Texas to duck hunt with an uncle who was working for NASA. […]