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June 26, 2026

The author (left) caught this 9½-pound bass in a farm pond near Abbeville this fall.

Don’t forget fall pond-fishing

Everybody who fishes farm ponds thinks about fishing mostly in the spring, but I don’t want anybody to forget about how good the fishing can be in the fall. […]

Joel Richardson has had many outstanding days fishing for largemouth bass at Randleman Dam Reservoir.

Bass glory days return at Randleman Dam

Craig Holt

Bass anglers of 30 years ago remember the great largemouth bass fishing when Jordan Lake opened to the public. […]

Largemouth bass are going to the major creeks at Jordan Lake during the fall shad migration.

Largemouth chasing shad at Jordan Lake’s creeks

Craig Holt

Deer season has captivated many Triangle sportsmen during late September, including guide Jamie Olive of New Hill, who fishes Jordan lake. […]

October: you can have it your way

Davy Hite

When it comes to bass fishing, I’m sort of a jack-of-all-trades. I do a little bit of this and a little bit of that — whatever I need to do to catch fish. […]

A great stringer of black crappie like this one biologist Kevin Dockendort shows off, is the result of knowing how and when slabs utilize different areas of the rivers that feed Albemarle Sound.

Blackwater Slabs

Phillip Gentry

Some days it’s hard to separate the biologist from the fisherman. With the more temperate days of October at hand, Kevin Dockendorf was playing fisherman. […]

LMBV has been found in Kerr Lake, and has taken a toll on the larger fish in the lake.

Virus devastating Kerr Lake bass population, LMBV confirmed

Craig Holt

Biologists who monitor fish populations at John H. Kerr Reservoir(Buggs Island) for the Virginia Department of Game and Inland Fisheries believe largemouth bass virus has taken hold in the lake. […]

Young anglers from all over the nation will gather in Louisiana for the 2010 Junior Bassmaster World Championship in October. Creedmore's Logan Holt will represent the Tar Heel state.

Creedmore youth to compete in Junior Bassmaster World Championship next month

From News Reports

Creedmore’s Logan Holt will represent North Carolina in the 2010 Junior Bassmaster World Championship to be held on Louisiana’s Cross Lake next month, BASS officials announced today (Sept. 23) […]

My top 10 tips for better bass-fishing

Dustin Wilks

I was recently asked to write an article on my top 10 tips to catch more bass. […]

One problem with September bass is that they’re often suspended, but if you find them relating to cover, a spinnerbait might draw a reaction bite.

September won’t give up too much

Davy Hite

Bass fishermen make it through the summer, through the 85-degree surface temperatures and 95-degree, breezeless days, just waiting for the fall to arrive. […]

Guide Bill Plumley shows off a nice pair of fish taken from the depths of Lake Hartwell during the depths of August’s dog days – a striper (left) and a hybrid.

Herring, shad make Hartwell a ‘2-story’ fishery

Phillip Gentry

For folks who remember the days before blueback herring became established in Lake Hartwell, striped bass were often forced to choose between invading the shallows to feed on threadfin and gizzard shad or going on diets in the deeper, cooler waters where shad preferred not to tread. […]