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May 9, 2026

Bass eat less during the winter, but they still eat. Catch your share with these tips.

Top 6 tips for catching winter bass

Anglers can catch plenty of bass during the cold weather months. This is especially true during warming trends, which we get often during the winter in the Carolinas. […]

Big female bass will start to stir this month on North Carolina’s Lake Tillery, and you should be waiting with jigs and jerkbaits.

J&J joy on Tillery – Double your bass-fishing joy by fishing the “J&J” baits on Lake Tillery this month

Tony Garitta

If February 2018 is anything like February 2017 — with its unseasonably warm weather — bass fishermen can expect to encounter a good number of trophy fish. The key is water temperature; once it climbs into the lower 50s, big female bass migrate in numbers into shallow staging areas before they even think about spawning. […]

Bass will bite in February, but you need to fish slowly, in open water, with light line and small-profile baits.

Pick a clear lake, go slow, fish open water

David Fritts

A lot of fishermen approach February as a good month to go to boat shows and look at all the newest boats and fishing tackle, but some years, you miss out on a lot of good fishing by staying off the lake. […]

G. Loomis E6X

Carolina Sportsman

Lightweight, strong, and sensitive. That’s the recipe for a fishing rod that bass anglers strive to find, and it can be elusive, especially when you add affordability into the mix. Or at least it used to be. But the G. Loomis E6X changes that. […]

Hybrid bass have replaced stripers as No. 1 targets for many Lake Norman anglers and guides.

Hunt Norman’s hybrids – February is time to hunt hybrid bass on North Carolina’s Lake Norman

Tony Garitta

In 2012, when the N.C. Wildlife Resources Commission decided to quit stocking striped bass in Lake Norman, that probably wasn’t the best news for Bob Curan, who grew up fishing for striped bass in the Chesapeake Bay before moving to North Carolina in 1997 and putting in 15 years learning the 32,500-acre lake north of Charlotte. […]

Catch a few warm days in February, and bass pro Dearal Rodgers said Lake Wateree bass will turn on.

Whack Lake Wateree’s early bass

Pat Robertson

The longer days and warmer temperatures of February make bass fishing on Lake Wateree a month that anglers don’t want to miss out on. […]

Angler Chris Brown looks for stained to clear water for February bass at High Rock Lake.

Go slow for bass at High Rock Lake through February

Tony Garitta

February is an unpredictable month for bass fishing, but the fish that bite are usually big. […]

The Super Sally

Don Shoopman

For many anglers, especially in the South, there have been epic trips with lots of unforgettable “Sally Time.” […]

Don’t put away crankbaits that work in deeper water when the first big wave of spawning bass move in early, because they often stay in relatively deep water.

Catch giants spawning first

Jeff Burleson

When P.H. Flanagan of Manning, S.C., caught the state record largemouth bass out of Lake Marion in 1949, he might never have dreamed that his 16-pound; 2-ounce beast would still reign as the biggest bass ever caught in the Palmetto State. But Santee Cooper is known for its big stringers of healthy bass, as are many other reservoirs scattered around the Carolinas. […]

The pilings that support the two US 64 bridges that link the mainland with Roanoke Island, N.C., attract plenty of stripers in the winter.

January’s best bets

Phillip Gentry

WHAT — Saltwater striped bass

WHERE — In North Carolina, fish the two US 64 bridges between the mainland and Roanoke Island across Croatan Sound. In South Carolina, the upper end of the Wando River holds stripers thanks to some supplemental stocking of native strains of river stripers. […]