Bass Fishing Archives - Page 95 of 155

May 4, 2026

Davy Hite uses a Mop jig when he locates bass feeding on spawning blueback herring.

Time for a herring high

We have had a cold winter and a very up-and-down spring, but there’s one thing that South Carolina bass fishermen can count on this month: May is the month of the herring bite. […]

Austin Brock, a 14-year-old eighth-grader from Rock Hill, caught this 13-pound, 5-ounce largemouth bass last Saturday.

Rock Hill teen catches bass pushing 13 1/2 pounds from local pond

Dan Kibler

An 8th-grader from Rock Hill gave himself a great end-of-school present when caught an enormous largemouth bass last Saturday in a private pond in his hometown. […]

Randleman Lake, a small, water-supply lake in North Carolina's Piedmont, was the top-ranked bass fishery in the Carolinas in Bassmaster Magazine's Top 100 survey.

Seven lakes in Carolinas are among Bassmaster’s Top 100

South Carolina Sportsman

Seven lakes in the Carolinas are ranked among the 100 best bass-fishing lakes in the United States, according to Bassmaster magazine’s third-annual rankings. […]

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Knocking on wood has been the ticket to good bass fishing at High Rock

Tony Garitta

For the past two weeks, bass fishermen have had success at High Rock Lake by knocking on wood. […]

Josh Hooks took this nice Shearon Harris bass on a Chatterbait, a lure that works especially well in lakes with aquatic vegetation.

Chatterbait answer to bass in the grass

Craig Holt

One of Josh Hooks’ big secrets to catching bass out of Shearon Harris Lake’s grassbeds is a lure that every tournament fisherman has in his tackle box: a chatterbait. And they’re used effectively at times. […]

Productive spring bass baits on Shearon Harris Lake include (clockwise from lower left): swimbait, frog, spinnterbait, chatterbait.

The swimbait displacement

Craig Holt

It’s taken a while for North Carolina fishermen to become part of the swimbait craze. Maybe it was their introduction. […]

Brian Shinn loves to fish a Senko for shallow Tuckertown bass.

I thought it was water, but it’s ‘snot’

Craig Holt

A major problem for anglers at Tuckertown Lake isn’t finicky fish but a disgusting, smelly, lure-fouling substance that covers most of the shoreline wood and rocks and the lake’s bottom. […]

This chartreuse/green crankbait color became known around Yadkin system lakes as “Homer” after a fisherman, Homer Biesecker, who used it exclusively.

The story of the “Homer” color

Craig Holt

Bass fishermen are creatures not so much of habit but of expedience. Another way of saying that is, “If it works, don’t mess with it.” […]

Pump-back operations between Jocassee, Keowee, and Bad Creek are often blamed for unstable water levels and poor spawning results at Jocassee.

Will fluctuating water levels doom Jocassee’s bass populations?

Phillip Gentry

While the history of Lake Jocassee’s trophy bass fishery is bright, many fishermen, including Monty McGuffin, are concerned with two factors that threaten to diminish its luster. […]

Lake Jocassee holds fishable populations of four black-bass species and produces trophy-sized fish for each, like this redeye, aka shoal bass.

Which bass is which?

Phillip Gentry

Largemouths are not the only black bass that call Lake Jocassee home. The smallmouth, redeye and spotted bass that live in the lake frequently grow to phenomenal sizes. […]