Freshwater Fishing Archives - Page 141 of 292

White perch are a bonus for fishermen trolling spoons and plugs for Lake James smallmouth bass.

How are white perch, herring changing Lake James’ fishery?

Guide Colt Bass said that Lake James is developing and changing as a freshwater fishery because of the presence of two species and the reappearance of another. […]

Planer boards allow striper fishermen to cover a wide swath of water with their baits and to get them away from the boat in shallow, clear-water situations.

Use planer boards around striper hot spots

Terry Madewell

Guides Brad Taylor and Mike Glover agree that covering a wide swath of water enhances your odds of success when fishing live bait for stripers. The way they accomplish that is with planer boards. […]

Fishermen who can follow stripers on their transition from shallower, spring patterns to deeper, summer areas, can catch limits consistently.

Follow the transition to summer stripers

Terry Madewell

By late June, hot-weather patterns typically set in on Lake Murray, but the striper fishing continues to be red hot for those adapting to deep-water patterns. […]

Warmouth are popular panfish for anglers who spend time on blackwater rivers in southeastern North Carolina.

Warmouth: more mouth than anything

Mike Marsh

By late May, Northeast Cape Fear River anglers begin catching an abundance of warmouth sunfish. Some anglers call them “more-mouths” because they say they are more mouth than anything else. Another popular name is “goggle-eye.” […]

The upper section of the Oconaluftee River in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park offers some beautiful scenery.

From stem to stern – Three days, three distinct Oconaluftee fisheries

Robert Satterwhite

The Oconaluftee River is widely considered one of the top trout streams in North Carolina’s mountains, offering a mix of wild rainbow trout and a smaller population of brown trout in its upper reaches and large stocked trout in the lower section. It is also a rarity in that is has three distinct fisheries. […]

Rigging for catfish requires rod holders,
a place to store your catch, and an anchoring system that will let you move from spot to spot quickly.

Kayaks + catfish = Great June fishing

Phillip Gentry

Setting up your kayak to target catfish may seem like the simplest thing in the world. Although anglers have caught catfish by casting, the vast majority of catfish are caught basically the same way: using multiple rods baited with some type of cut, live or manufactured baits. […]

The SCDNR has stocked more than 1 million stipers and hybrids in Lake Hartwell in the past month.

Over 1 million stripers, hybrids, stocked in Lake Hartwell

Brian Cope

Some 780,000 striped bass and 480,000 hybrid bass–a total of about 1.2 million fish–were stocked in Lake Hartwell during the past three weeks by the S.C. Department of Natural Resources.

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Catch more summer bream with this one tip

Brian Cope

Night crawlers have caught untold numbers of bream for anglers, and while it’s tough to say there is a right or wrong way to hook one, it’s probably fair to say that at times, one way works better than another. […]

Catch more bream like these by following this tip.

Catch more summer bream with this one tip

Brian Cope

Night crawlers have caught untold numbers of bream for anglers, and while it’s tough to say there is a right or wrong way to hook one, it’s probably fair to say that at times, one way works better than another.

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