Bass Fishing Archives - Page 34 of 155

May 10, 2026

Chris Brown catches plenty of nice High Rock Lake bass in extremely shallow water in April.

Hit the banks for High Rock bass

Stick to the shallows in April at High Rock Lake and you’ll catch your share of largemouth bass. […]

Big smallmouth bass are very active in April on North Carolina’s Lake James.

Lake James smallies stack up in clearest water

Paying attention to water clarity and wind will pay big dividends for smallmouth anglers on Lake James during April. […]

Fifteen-year-old Peyton Sorrow caught this 14-pound bass in a Greenwood, S.C. farm pond in March 2019.

Teen angler catches 14-pound bass

Pat Robertson

A teenage angler caught a huge bass in a Greenwood County, S.C. farm pond in mid-March 2019. The fish weighed 14 pounds. […]

Painting a crankbait, even with a state-of-the-art airbrush paint, is a process that takes many, many steps and coats of paint to give the bait a perfect finish.

Tie on a Black Label balsa crankbait

Don Shoopman

Mississippi pro’s hand-crafted balsa crankbaits are square-billed, bass-catching creations. […]

Phillip Bridges of Snow Camp, N.C. caught this 10.69-pound bass in a farm pond on March 23, 2019.

Huge bass surprises farm pond angler

Dan Kibler

Phillip Bridges wasn’t targeting big bass — or even bass at all — when he caught a 10..69-pound largemouth from a farm pond in Snow Camp, N.C. on March 23, 2019 […]

Johnny Wilder caught his biggest bass ever -- this 10.69 pounder, during a tournament at Falls of the Neuse on March 16, 2019.

Falls of Neuse spits out huge bass in tournament

Dan Kibler

A 10.69-pound largemouth bass helped Johnny Wilder and his partner Mike Harris take second place in a bass fishing tournament on Falls of the Neuse Lake on March 16, 2019. […]

Bless the Santee Cooper bass spawn

Terry Madewell

Experienced bass anglers at Lake Marion and Lake Moultrie begin looking for big bass moving into shallower water by late February. […]

Jason Dew (bow) and Randall Soles catch two largemouth bass at Sutton Lake.

Sutton Lake’s roller-coaster bass bite

Mike Marsh

After Hurricane Florence breached the dike at Sutton Lake last fall, the Cape Fear River entered the lake and the power plant shut down temporarily. Will 2019 be a good year or bad year for the lake’s bass? Only time will tell. […]

Shearon Harris bass fall for Chatterbaits in February

Craig Holt

Chatterbaits, aka bladed jigs, are killer lures as bass start to stir this month in North Carolina’s top trophy lake, Shearon Harris. […]

The NCWRC is adding artificial structure to attract fishing in several lakes. (Photo by NCWRC)

NCWRC adds fish-attracting structure in two Piedmont lakes

Brian Cope

Anglers now have more areas to target gamefish in Tuckertown Lake and High Rock Lake after the NCWRC added 160 pieces of artificial structure to both bodies of water. […]