Bass Fishing
What’s next for stripers?
Striper fishing opens Oct. 1 — the keeper season, that is — on the Santee Cooper lakes, but no legislation has been passed to update current, long-standing regulations. […]
Bass Fishing
Bass Fishing
Fall forage shift is key to your best catches of Santee Cooper stripers
Guide Leroy Suggs said fishing around forage is always the key to striper fishing, but he also looks for a seasonal change in forage types to impact fishing, usually in a positive manner. […]
Bass Fishing
Finding isolated schools of stripers leads to best Santee Cooper action
Guide Linwood Thornhill said his goal is to get some distance between his boat and others chasing stripers when possible. His experience has taught him that a thoughtful and isolated approach to the schooling action is best. […]
Bass Fishing
Are these Santee’s new good ol’ days?
The revived striped bass fishery on the Santee Cooper lakes is no secret; many anglers throughout the Carolinas have heard about the strong recovery. […]
Bass Fishing
Fishing high, dirty water
October is usually one of my favorite months to catch bass, because it’s a month when fish are moving, feeding and hitting my favorite baits, crankbaits. […]
Bass Fishing
October means nice High Rock stripers
Guide Jerry Hill said striper fishing on North Carolina’s High Rock Lake really breaks loose around Oct. 20, with fish in the 10-pound class and above beginning to show up. […]
Bass Fishing
Rhodhiss stripers offer big rewards on live bait in autumn
Guide of Joe Jobin of Xtreme Striper Fishing said fishermen can catch good numbers of stripers from North Carolina’s Lake Hickory, but just upstream, Lake Rhodhiss spits out bigger fish. […]
Bass Fishing
Keowee bass blitz comes on with changing of the leaves
For a number of reasons, fall is a great time of year to go bass fishing on South Carolina’s Lake Keowee. Summer, with its almost intolerable heat and humidity, is just a bad memory as cooler fall temperatures prevail. […]
Bass Fishing
Lake James smallies crank up as water temperature drops
When October temperatures get nippy, guide Colt Bass of Colt Bass Fishing knows the impending cool-down will prompt the smallmouth at North Carolina’s picturesque Lake James to move from their deep, summer holes into shallower water to begin feeding up for the winter. […]
Bass Fishing
Bass fishing gets good again in September
September brings cooler water and air temperatures, and that puts bass in a feeding mood. […]