Freshwater Fishing Archives - Page 148 of 292

July 10, 2026

Lake Marion’s Sparkleberry Swamp will fill up with big crappie this month, but often it will take a little extra effort to get them to bite.

It’s a matter of minnows

March is a favorite month for anglers, and Sparkleberry Swamp on the northern end of Lake Marion is one of the hottest destinations for crappie, the tastiest of panfish. […]

Anchor along channel drops and creek-channel junctions and fan-cast chunks of white perch of gizzard shad for big Wateree blues.

Head upriver for Lake Wateree blue catfish

Pat Robertson

Targeting a trophy blue catfish in Lake Wateree this month is fairly simple, according to Rodger Taylor of Rock Hill’s Catfish On! Guide Service: just follow the fish up the lake into the river system. […]

Kevin Davis of Black’s Camp shows off a nice blue catfish from Santee Cooper.

Can’t go wrong in March – Blue cats, stripers, largemouth, crappie are hot

Terry Madewell

Fishing is good year-round at Santee Cooper, but March is the one month where almost every popular species is on the move. […]

Spring is a great time to catch a trout dinner in North Carolina’s mountain streams.

Spring trout are hard to beat

Robert Satterwhite

Beginning around the middle of March and continuing through May, brown, rainbow, and brook trout become active and hungry, and mountain anglers enjoy some of the best trout fishing of the year. […]

Setting up for slab time – Get your kayak rigged for crappie fishing

Phillip Gentry

The number of anglers joining the ranks of the plastic armada grows daily. With each new recruit, prospective anglers want to know what they can do to target their favorite species from their new paddle craft. […]

Lake Wylie is producing plenty of nice blue catfish like this one caught by James Moore of Westminster.

Make a game plan before you take on Lake Wylie’s blue catfish

Phillip Gentry

James Moore of Westminster, S.C., will readily admit that he doesn’t consider Lake Wylie as one of his home lakes, but every time he goes there, he does well catching blue catfish. […]

Guide Steve Pietrykowski finds most of the crappie he catches out of Lake Hartwell in March along creek channels that the fish use for their annual move from deep water in the winter to the shallow areas where they will spawn later in the spring.

Travel Hartwell’s slab highways to great prespawn catches

Dan Kibler

Working his way under a bridge and back into one of Lake Hartwell’s feeder creeks, Steve Pietrykowski had his attention divided between the depth finder on his pontoon boat and the water in front of him. […]

Stripers and largemouth bass make for a great mixed-bag on Kerr Lake in March.

It’s double-play time on North Carolina’s Kerr Lake

Craig Holt

Largemouth and striped bass feed together at one of North Carolina’s largest lakes during late winter and early spring, but few anglers know. […]

Make a game plan before you take on Lake Wylie’s blue catfish

Phillip Gentry

James Moore of Westminster, S.C., will readily admit that he doesn’t consider Lake Wylie as one of his home lakes, but every time he goes there, he does well catching blue catfish. […]

Tar River Reservoir has some of the best crappie fishing in North Carolina.

Slab happy – For big crappie in eastern North Carolina, try the Tar River Reservoir

Mike Marsh

Just as anglers do in early spring, Tar River Reservoir suffers mood swings. One day, the water is clear. The next day, it rains, bringing muddy runoff surging down its feeder creeks. […]