Freshwater Fishing Archives - Page 161 of 292

July 11, 2026

Wyn Mullins enjoys catches like this of big, bull bream in the Cooper River through the summer.

Learn this four-letter word for catching big Cooper River bream: deep

August may not rate high as prime time to catch bull bream, but it may be time to do some deep thinking and reconsider. […]

Hartwell heats up – August is not dog days, but striper days

Terry Madewell

Greet a sunrise on the lower end of Lake Hartwell this month armed with blueback herring and a good graph, and odds are, the hot fishing will rival the heat. […]

Brown trout are better targeted by trolling live bait closer to the bottom. Bigger specimens are caught later in the fall as they migrate up the river to spawn.

Keep it cool at Cheoah Lake

Phillip Gentry

In the 1993 Warner Brothers film, “The Fugitive,” actor Harrison Ford plays Dr. Richard Kimble, wrongfully convicted for the murder of his wife, who escapes from custody and is declared a fugitive. […]

Guide Wendell Wilson regularly does battle with big Lake Russell stripers.

Striper strategies – Here’s how to target Lake Russell’s trophy stripers

Phillip Gentry

In 2012, fishermen began urging South Carolina officials to put in place regulations that would turn Lake Russell, the middle lake of the three major impoundments on the Savannah River, into a trophy striped bass fishery. […]

Rainbow trout in the Watauga River near the Watauga County town of Foscoe have been discovered to have whirling disease, a potentially devastating disease for trout populations.

Commission discovers whirling disease in Watauga River trout

North Carolina Sportsman

Whirling disease, a disorder affecting trout, has been confirmed in rainbow trout collected from Watauga River near Foscoe in Watauga County — the first occurrence of the disease in North Carolina – and the N.C. Wildlife Resources Commission has suspended stocking fish raised at its three cold-water hatcheries until it can confirm that those populations are free of the disease. […]

Baylen Moore and guide Townie Wessinger show off the best fish from two limits recently caught in deep water at Lake Murray.

Deep-water pattern has taken over, but Lake Murray is still spitting out nice stripers

Terry Madewell

Hot-weather patterns have set in for Lake Murray striped bass, but that hasn’t slowed down the action for fishermen able to adapt to deep-water patterns. Guide Townsend “Townie” Wessinger has been mauling stripers with live bait in deep water. […]

Deep brush piles are producing plenty of nice crappie for Kerr Lake fishermen, along with white perch.

Deep brush piles producing crappie, white perch for Kerr Lake anglers

Craig Holt

With the heat on across North Carolina, many fishermen have taken to after-dark trips, but Chris Bullock, a veteran guide on John H. Kerr Reservoir has been knocking out plenty of black crappie and white perch on daytime trips. […]

Striped bass regulations will remain the same on the Santee Cooper lakes for another year.

No changes coming in Santee Cooper striped bass regs

Terry Madewell

Proposed changes to striped bass regulations on the Santee Cooper lakes has stalled in the stakeholders committee, and no recommendations were passed on to the legislature for consideration for the 2015-2016 license year. […]

Shellcrackers are a great target fish in July, but you have to search a little to find them concentrated in relatively small areas.

Deep thinking required

Terry Madewell

Summer patterns have settled in on the Santee Cooper lakes, and that’s not a bad situation. When the water heats up and the sun bears down, some species will get into very reliable patterns in deeper water. […]

Power-jigging with an Alabama Rig drew a strike from this Lake Norman hybrid bass for guide Craig Price.

Strike out for a reaction

Dusty Wilson

Whether you call it power-jigging, speed-jigging, or speed-reeling, the technique has been proven effective at catching numerous offshore saltwater species, striped bass and now, hybrid bass. […]