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Big blue catfish have been biting all over Badin Lake in recent weeks.

Blue catfish bite is on fire at Badin Lake

If fishermen want to feel something really big at the other end of their lines, they should plan a trip to Badin Lake, which has been spitting out big blue cats with regularity lately. […]

When striper guides swap over to crappie fishing on Lake Hartwell, you know the crappie bite is on. These two big slabs came aboard guide Steve Pietrykowski’s boat on back-to-back casts.

Crappie fishing on Hartwell is so good it’s drawing striper guides

Phillip Gentry

You know the crappie are biting when striped bass guides are taking time off from chasing linesides to go do some perch jerking. […]

Guide William Sasser shows off the kind of crappie he said is regularly caught at Clarks Hill Lake during March.

Peak slab season? Veteran Clarks Hill guide looking forward to spring crappie fishing

Pat Robertson

Guiding on Clarks Hill Lake is a business for William Sasser, but crappie fishing takes him back to his childhood. Although most of the business of his guide service and bait shop centers on fishing for stripers and hybrids, it was his ability to catch crappie on the sprawling Savannah River reservoir that got him into guiding. […]

Ed Duke of Concord is sure he’s one of the few fishermen in North Carolina who knows exactly how good the crappie fishing can be at Blewett Falls Lake.

Unknown Slab Heaven – Blewett Falls Lake is North Carolina’s best unknown crappie fishery

Phillip Gentry

It’s hard to believe that a major public reservoir with a fantastic fishery exists with hardly anyone knowing about it. In today’s world of high technology — sonar units practically detect fish at the push of a button, internet sites broadcast the day’s fishing results in an instant and a fisherman can pick up a cell phone and tell another one, “Hey, I’m on ’em” — no place is safe. […]

The author had a close encounter with this huge Badin Lake blue catfish last winter.

Feelin’ blue at Badin Lake

Jerry Dilsaver

Peering through the first of rays of sunlight across the glassy surface of Badin Lake, it’s a little difficult to fully comprehend how many huge blue catfish are swimming around in the lake, one of a handful of Piedmont reservoirs on the Yadkin River. […]

Jordan Lake’s crappie fishery has recovered from a 2011 die-off and has returned to top-drawer status.

Slab royalty – Is Jordan Lake the king of North Carolina’s crappie mountain once again?

Craig Holt

Fishermen have lamented for two years, wondering what happened to B. Everett Jordan Lake, one of North Carolina’s best reservoirs for crappie. […]

Rod Wall of Ninety Six looks for crappie to move out of deep water and enter the prespawn phase this month at Lake Greenwood.

Crappie in the Crosshairs – Lake Greenwood is long-line trolling paradise in March

Phillip Gentry

Despite some occasional cold and rainy weather, March ushers in the spawning ritual for crappie on Lake Greenwood, and Rod Wall of Ninety Six can think of no better place to spend the month. […]

Crappie are biting all over Lake Wateree this month.

Lake Wateree is a slab supermarket

Terry Madewell

If you’re looking for a lake that can produce a 20-fish limit of crappie that weighs more than 30 pounds this month, there’s some good news for fishermen: it’s one of the best times of the year to target slabs on Lake Wateree, but experts also agree it can be also one of the more complex times in terms of crappie fishing strategy. […]