For most bass fisherman, the slot limit under which bass at Shearon Harris Lake are managed means little. They’re just looking to get their line stretched and not keeping bass anyway, so it’s no big deal that you can’t put any bass between 16 and 20 inches in your livewell.
Fishermen can speculate on the whereabouts of the next state-record white crappie, but at least one person knows where one such fish lives.
Taking a kid fishing instills in them an attitude of appreciation for the outdoors, but hooking them up to a 76-pound blue catfish is subject to creating an angler for life.
As April arrives at Shearon Harris Lake, one thing is for certain: the spawn is irrefutable. Waves of buck bass and fat females will be hitting the banks and preparing beds, eager to deposit the eggs they’ve carried through the winter before retreating to make room for another group. […]
Kerr Lake will be a top-drawer location for slab seekers in April, but it will take a versatile angler to stay in the strike zone. […]
A little over six weeks ago, guide Joe Dennis of Bonneau thrilled his client with a crappie angler’s dream, a 4-pound slab harvested from the Santee River. Last Friday, March 12th, he repeated the procedure and put angler Art Fields of Charlotte in the hot seat this time. […]
It’s not uncommon for anglers to blast off from the boat ramp at full throttle, skipping across the water like a flat stone to an undisclosed honey hole on the other end of the lake. […]
One of the most-productive methods for triggering a reaction strike from a bass is to drop an intruder into his hiding spot when he’s in ambush mode. […]
March madness is a different ailment for different people. For some, it’s a need for the heated rivalries between the college basketball teams they love and love to hate. For others, it’s the heating up of the shallow waters at B. Everett Jordan Lake south of the Raleigh-Durham area. […]
Most big blue catfish in Lake Gaston come out of deep water, but when guide Zakk Royce of Murfreesboro hit Lake Gaston this past Friday, he had a hunch that warmer weather might shuffle shad and big cats to the backs of creeks. […]
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