Bass Fishing Archives - Page 99 of 155

June 28, 2026

Shallow, stained water is the ticket for catching Lake Wylie bass on spinnerbaits.

Go over to the dark side

For many anglers, night time is the right time for catching bass, and March is a great time to doing it in the dark on Wylie. […]

Riprapped banks cover plenty of Lake Wylie’s shoreline, and fishermen need to target them in March.

Riprap is big key at Wylie

Brian Cope

The large rocks that line much of Lake Wylie’s shoreline are called riprap, and plenty of it is submerged below the surface. […]

High water that’s stained to dirty is a big draw for Lake Wylie bass looking to head for the shallows.

High water is an angler’s friend

Brian Cope

March is typically a rainy month, and as part of the Catawba River system, Lake Wylie gets local rain as well as rain and melting snow from the waterways well upstream, which means anglers will get to fish their share of high water this month. […]

Go over to the dark side

Brian Cope

For many anglers, night time is the right time for catching bass, and March is a great time to do it in the dark on Wylie. […]

The mid-lake area of Falls of the Neuse can be an extremely productive place to catch prespawn bass.

Try mid-lake areas for prespawn fish

Jason Hawkins

Joel Munday likes to fish the mid-lake area of Falls of Neuse during the prespawn. […]

Water temperature matters more to Rich Szczerbala than lure colors at Falls of Neuse, but he does like white/chartreuse and black/blue.

Colors are secondary at Falls Lake

Jason Hawkins

Former guide Richard Szczerbala said that finding the correct water temperature — 55 to 58 degrees in March — is the most-important factor in catching prespawn Falls of Neuse bass. […]

March is a great time to catch big bass on the Santee Cooper lakes; this hawg came from Lake Moultrie.

March is ‘moving’ month

Terry Madewell

March is a month when a lot of big things are happening on the Santee Cooper lakes. […]

Bass fishing on Kerr Reservoir has been great up in the Staunton River arm of the lake.

Staging bass making Kerr Reservoir prespawn bite a good one

Craig Holt

Notwithstanding the ice, snow and rain dumped on John H. Kerr Reservoir’s watershed over the last few weeks and all the runoff that has poured into the 49,500-acre reservoir, at least one fisherman said March is the best time to be on the lake. […]

When it comes to bass fishing, kayaks have an advantage over powerboats, especially when chasing fish in hard-to-reach places.

Paddle up a lunker bass

Phillip Gentry

With the announcement in January that the Bassmaster Classic will be returning to South Carolina in 2015, a lot of anglers are gearing up for bass fishing. […]

Guide McMcSwain said smallmouth bass have really been biting on the Broad River the past several weeks -- despite changing weather patterns.

Broad River bronzebacks putting on quite a show

Brian Cope

Water levels and temperatures have fluctuated greatly on the Broad River for the past few weeks, but the smallmouth bass are still biting, and adventurous anglers are having success reeling in good numbers of bronzebacks and some big ones, too. […]