Freshwater Fishing Archives - Page 196 of 290

May 8, 2026

Tight-lining, or fishing with lures dropped straight down, is a favorite of spring crappie anglers.

Any color is good — as long as it’s blue

Successful crappie fishing at Jordan Lake in March can hinge on having a jig in the color fish prefer that day. […]

Black crappie in Jordan Lake have rebounded after a 2011 die-off and should offer fishermen a great spring this year.

Net survey shows Jordan’s crappie on the rebound

Biologists Jessica Baumann and Corey Oakley of the N.C. Wildlife Resources Commission conducted crappie surveys using trap and gill nets in October and November 2012 after a 2011 shad die-off and resulting crappie mortality. […]

Bridge pilings, expecially those supporting railroad trestles, are great early Spring spots to catch crappie on Lake Greenwood.

Early spawning sites

Phillip Gentry

When it comes to prespawn migrations on Lake Greenwood, there are two schools of thought. One is that crappie move horizontally from the main lake to the backs of creeks and coves. […]

Presenting jigs or minnow vertically is a great way to fish for prespawn crappie holding tight to cover.

Tighten up

Phillip Gentry

Crappie enter the prespawn mode as early as mid-February or as late as mid-March. When they are staging, many anglers prefer to tight-line for crappie rather than long-line. […]

Noland Creek is one of the Great Smoky Mountain National Park’s fine trout streams.

Noland is a Smoky jewel

Robert Satterwhite

Noland Creek in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park in Swain County is typical of hundreds of prime trout streams that crisscross the park: remote, scenic and full of trout. […]

Capt. Mitchell Blake said the Roanoke River is full of fish: stripers, shad, herring, plus an occasional bass or perch.

Mixed-bag fishing in lower Roanoke River is rolling

Jerry Dilsaver

Capt. Mitchell Blake of FishIBX.com said fishing in the Roanoke River has been really good, and he expects it to improve over the next few weeks for stripers, shad, herring and even the occasional largemouth bass and speckled perch. […]

Steve Pack hefts a pair of 28-inch stripers from the upper end of Lake Marion.

Striper run is rolling into upper end of Lake Marion

Terry Madewell

Fishing success and a net survey by the S.C. Department of Natural Resources confirm the striper spawning run is underway on the upper end of Lake Marion, according to Steve Pack at Pack’s Landing. […]

Limits of keeper stripers have been the norm in the lower Roanoke River for better than a week.

Lower Roanoke River striper fishing has been off the charts

Jerry Dilsaver

Capt. Richard Andrews, of Tar-Pam Guide Service in Washington said striper fishing in the lower Roanoke River hasn’t slowed from its hectic pace of before the keeper season opened, and now fishermen can take home some fish for dinner if they want. […]

The hot-hole warm-water discharges at Lake Norman have been driving good fishing for stripers, spotted bass, white perch and crappie.

Hot-hole effects driving good Lake Norman fishing

Craig Holt

With winter clinging to North Carolina like a deacon’s grip on a collection plate on Sunday morning, fishing success comes to anglers mostly in the forms of dreams — except at lakes that receive infusions of hot water. […]

A fly-fishing seminar for women will be held later this month in Fayetteville.

Commission plans women’s fly-fishing clinic for March 22.

NCWRC Release

The N.C. Wildlife Resources Commission’s Becoming an Outdoors Woman (BOW) program will offer a basic fly-fishing skills workshop on March 22 at the John E. Pechmann Fishing Education Center in Fayetteville. […]