Freshwater Fishing Archives - Page 106 of 292

July 8, 2026

Lake Tillery’s slabs are hanging around thermocline

David Diggs of Norwood, N.C., said October is a great time to catch Lake Tillery’s big crappie. […]

Guide William Sasser said Clarks Hill spits out a lot of big crappie once October arrives and fish start to feed up for the winter.

Clarks Hill slabs grow up plenty

October usually kicks off a 3- to 4-month period of big crappie, and big numbers of crappie, on South Carolina’s Clarks Hill Lake, according to guide William Sasser. […]

Restrictions and bag limits are almost non-existent for white perch. The fish are an invasive species and considered a nuisance by most states in the southeast.

Year-round white perch

Phillip Gentry

While guide Zakk Royce confines most of his perch fishing to Lake Gaston along the North Carolina-Virginia border, you’d be hard-pressed to name any reservoir in North Carolina’s Piedmont or South Carolina’s Midlands that isn’t chock full of them. […]

New kayak gear reviews

Phillip Gentry

It’s a skiff. It’s a dinghy. It’s a tender. It’s a paddleboard. It’s a BOTE … in a bag. Meet the Rover AeroBOTE, the most-portable paddle skiff on the market. It goes from travel bag to BOTE and back again, easy to store, tags along on any adventure, and stands up to the toughest tests on any waterway — and even baggage claim. […]

Kayak anglers like catching Pee Dee River catfish

Phillip Gentry

Catching Pee Dee River catfish from kayaks is fun and productive. […]

Whether he’s feeding white perch to Lake Gaston’s trophy catfish or eating them himself, catfish guide Zakk Royce knows there’s plenty of perch to go round.

Solve the perch equation

Phillip Gentry

For those of you who are live-bait fisherman, have you ever been so proud of the job you did catching, storing and presenting the bait that you thought, “That looks so good, I’d eat it myself?” […]

Hazel Creek: A trout treasure

Robert Satterwhite

No roads lead to one of the most-celebrated trout streams in the East. Isolated, remote, accessible only by boat or foot, Hazel Creek lives up to its reputation as a trout-fishing Mecca. It’s all that everyone says it is, and more. […]

Summer, shallows are not exclusive

Terry Madewell

Bobby Winters is a 23-year-old catfish and striper guide on the Santee Cooper lakes who has a youthful passion for catching fish. We were fishing on a hot, summer day, and he’d targeted an area with undulating bottom contours for drift-fishing. We had been drifting only a short while when one of his nine rods bowed over.

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A three-way swivel allows crappie fishermen to troll a crankbait at a certain depth and drag along a second lure in slightly deeper water.

Make crappie do a double-take

Dusty Wilson

According to guide Eddie Moody, a difference in depth of a few inches can have a big impact in crappie fishing, and giving the fish something they’re not used to seeing can be the difference in getting bit or not. […]

Blue catfish in the Santee Cooper system will be managed, at least until 2019, under regulations passed in 2007, not the creel and size limits passed in 2014.

Santee Cooper blue catfish regulations have been changed again

Terry Madewell

The 2014 Santee Cooper blue catfish law that took effect on April 1, 2015, with creel and size limits designed to protect the resource, has been repealed because of an undiscovered “sunset” clause place in the bill by the S.C. General Assembly. […]