Bass Fishing Archives - Page 122 of 155

Because of their physical habitat needs, stripers are often squeezed by hot water with low dissolved oxygen levels during the summer, resulting in fish kills.

Why summer fish kills?

Summer fish kills are as perplexing as they are disturbing to witness. A typical reservoir may have uniform temperatures throughout the lake, from top to bottom, for only a short time in the spring and again in the fall. […]

A frog bait is extremely effective around heavy cover when bass are on a topwater pattern.

Why May is my favorite

Dustin Wilks

When asked my favorite month to fish, it is a close call between May or January, but I think May gets the nod because of good weather and aggressive bass. […]

Concentrate on main-lake points in May if you want to take advantage of the blueback herring spawn.

Mining the herring spawn

Davy Hite

May has always been a very special month for me, and not just because I was born in May. Throughout my fishing career, I’ve done well and have won more tournaments in May than any other month, largely because it’s a very diverse month. […]

The 6.95-pound Lake Norman bass that angler Terry Trivette caught on Feb. 11 wound up being a hybrid between a largemouth and spot, so it was not certified as the state-record spotted bass.

Lake Norman fish won’t be state-record spotted bass

NCWRC Release

It was a big fish and a nice catch for Surry County angler Terry Trivette. It was not, however, the new spotted bass state record. […]

The spring spawning run of striped bass is occurring now in N.C. rivers and many anglers are taking advantage.

Yadkin lakes see start of striped-bass spawn

Craig Holt

With late spring-like weather spreading over the state a month earlier than usual during March, higher-than-normal water temperatures apparently triggered striped bass false migration runs in many piedmont rivers.

The migration attempts are false because stripers have only two rivers (Dan and Roanoke) inside North Carolina long enough to successfully hatch fertilized eggs — yet rockfish are hard-wired to make whoopee anyway each spring no matter where they are. […]

Docks have been great places to catch postspawn fish guarding free on Lake Murray and Lake Wateree.

Full moon, warm weather has several patterns working for bass on Murray, Wateree

Brian Cope

The full moon coupled with unseasonably warm weather has three different patterns currently working on bass in Lakes Wateree and Murray. […]

Anglers fishing with Richard Andrews, a guide from Little Washington, are experiencing great topwater striped bass action at the Pamlico River.

Hot striper bite ignites up and down Pamlico

Craig Holt

Although many Tar Heel anglers believe the Roanoke River is the state’s top spring spot for catching striped bass, the best venue actually may be up and down the Pamlico River on either side of Little Washington — but particularly to the east toward Albemarle Sound. […]