Freshwater Fishing

Don’t miss May’s offering

May is an ideal time to be on a mountain trout stream. Wildflowers are in bloom, dogwoods and rhododendron are flowering and a multitude of mayfly, caddis and stonefly hatches are coming off — more hatches than any other time of the season. […]

Freshwater Fishing

The redear sunfish: nature’s perfect nutcracker

The redear sunfish, known scientifically as Lepomis microlophus and informally as bream, stumpknocker, cherry gill, rouge ear sunfish, Georgia bream and shellcracker, is a slab-sided fish with a red or orange edge along its ear flap, a characteristic that distinguishes it from other sunfish. […]

Freshwater Fishing

Fishing Creek Lake facts

Fishing Creek Lake is a Duke Energy reservoir on the Catawba River that was impounded in 1916. The lake has 3,431surface acres of water and 61 miles of shoreline. Full pond elevation is 417.2 feet. […]

Freshwater Fishing

Minnows can be the key

Guide Buster Rush of Camden said that despite the typical success he has trolling on Fishing Creek Lake, fishing minnows vertically over and into brush will often be the key to success. […]