Sportsmen who aren’t enamored with the idea of sitting in a tree stand all day can turn to Jordan Lake for some of the year’s best fishing. Waters have cooled and turned on largemouth bass and crappie bites. […]
Big Snowbird Creek in Graham County, considered by many veteran trout fishers as one of the best streams in the far western section of the state, now has four distinct fisheries. In July, a 2.8-mile section of hatchery-supported waters was re-designated as delayed-harvest waters.
Catfishing on Lake Murray is productive and popular year-round, but November and December are the top two months, according to guide Chris Simpson. […]
With the constantly changing weather patterns, crappie are wherever you find them. At High Rock Lake, small crappie are scattered around piers. At Badin Lake, quality crappie are in water as deep as 27 feet. […]
Anglers can catch plenty of Lake Murray’s shellcrackers along the rock-lined shallows during the fall. […]
Kevin Custer of Statesville knows where he’d go if he had to choose a favorite catfish lake today. “If I was gonna go somewhere to catch (blue) catfish, I’d go to MountainIsland or LakeNorman,” said Custer, the vice-president of NC-CATS (www.nccats.net), a North Carolina catfish tournament trail. […]
Maynard Edwards and Jason Heitman, both of Lexington, discovered that variety is indeed the spice of life if you leave your options open at High Rock Lake. […]
Guide Buster Rush said there’s some movement of fish during October because of the change in water temperature; it slowly drops as the month progresses. […]
The age-old debate continues as to which is best for catching crappie out of Santee Cooper, the jig or the minnow. […]
If you want to catch trout when hatches are few or nonexistent, use a nymph. […]
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