Freshwater Fishing Archives - Page 175 of 290

May 8, 2026

Deep holes and channels in Lake Marion and Lake Moultrie will hold stripers this month.

January is big-fish time

Fishing can still be very good in January on Lake Marion and Lake Moultrie despite the typical cold weather, especially for catfish and stripers. […]

A great year-class of stripers spawned in 2011 is making for excellent winter fishing in the lower Roanoke River.

Stripers in lower Roanoke River are biting up a storm

Craig Holt

Although the weather outside may be frightful, lower Roanoke River winter striper fishing has hit its stride. […]

North Carolina’s delayed-harvest trout streams provide fishermen with unique angling opportunities.

Why delayed harvest?

Tim Mead

Jacob Rash, a fisheries biologist for the N.C. Wildlife Resources Commission in Marion, explained the rationale for delayed harvest. […]

Jimmy Holbrook and his wife, Layla, hold the 90-pound blue catfish Holbrook caught from Lake Moultrie before releasing the fish back to the water.

Georgia man strikes gold with 90-pound blue catfish from Lake Moultrie

Phillip Gentry

Jimmy Holbrook of Gibson, Ga., was fishing alone on Jan. 2 when he scored the fish of a lifetime, a 90-pound blue catfish from Lake Moultrie that he later was able to release alive. […]

Anglers are landing good-size striped bass in deep water at Lake Hickory by using rainbow trout as live baits.

Cold weather hasn’t slowed down striper bite at Lake Hickory

Craig Holt

When cold winter weather blankets North Carolina, freshwater fishing prospects usually falter, but fishermen who are braving the conditions at Lake Hickory are being rewarded with striped bass. […]

Tying flies to replace ones you’ve lost or simply adding new patterns is a great task for too-cold-to-fish days.

January and February usually are the harshest months, with cold, ice and snow, but the sun shines frequently enough, even in the dead of winter, to provide pleasant fishing respites from the cold. […]

Chuck Porter caught this nice Lake Wateree blue catfish drifting shad over a big pod of baitfish he was marking on his depth finder.

Stripers have turned off at Wateree, but a great blue catfish bite has taken over

Terry Madewell

A funny thing happened during a hunt for schooling stripers on Lake Wateree for veteran fisherman Chuck Porter. […]

More and bigger hybrid bass are showing up in the creels of Lake Norman fishermen; the bite over the past several weeks has been excellent.

Lake Norman anglers welcome great cold-weather hybrid bite

Craig Holt

Lake Norman’s fishery has changed for the better, according to one guide, and the winter bite is showing exactly how, with a lot of hybrid bass being caught from the 32,510-acre reservoir on the Catawba River. […]