Freshwater Fishing Archives - Page 207 of 293

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August 30, 2026

Lexington's Jerry Hill caught these three stripers trolling bucktails on High Rock Lake.

Trolling bite for stripers has kicked in at High Rock Lake

For the past two weeks, plenty of striped bass in the 10-pound class have been caught at High Rock Lake by fishermen slow-trolling bucktails or using live bait. […]

Guide Steve Crenshaw said the long awaited fall schooling pattern for hybrid, striped, and black bass on Lake Hartwell finally showed up in earnest earlier this week.

Topwater bite for Lake Hartwell stripers, hybrids and largemouths heats up

Phillip Gentry

The on-again, off-again demise of summer has finally dropped water temperatures enough to start the long-anticipated fall schooling activity for hybrid, striped and even black bass species on Lake Hartwell. […]

Derek Frick of Columbia has been catching a lot of Lake Murray crappie in the Little Saluda, shooting jigs under docks and fishing minnows around brush piles and bridge pilings.

Lake Murray crappie bite is picking up in Little Saluda area

Brian Cope

The crappie are biting on Lake Murray, and two popular techniques are keeping anglers busy: spider-rigging and single-pole fishing. […]

Crappie and bass fishing has picked up on Jordan Lake since the water has cooled.

Crappie, bass have turned on at Jordan Lake

Craig Holt

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 is one of best trout waters in Carolinas

Robert Satterwhite

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.

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Guide Chris Simpson said his parties are regularly catching nice blue catfish like this at Lake Murray.

Cool weather has kicked off great catfish bite on Lake Murray

Terry Madewell

Catfishing on Lake Murray is productive and popular year-round, but November and December are the top two months, according to guide Chris Simpson. […]

Jonathan Seamon of China Grove caught these crappie at High Rock Lake this past weekend; Seamon hopes for stable weather to push bigger fish shallow.

Crappie scattered at High Rock; action at Badin is great in deep water

Tony Garitta

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. […]

Lake Murray shellcrackers moving shallow, hitting nightcrawlers

Brian Cope

Anglers can catch plenty of Lake Murray’s shellcrackers along the rock-lined shallows during the fall. […]

Big, blue catfish are ready to move shallow at Mountain Island Lake when the next big cold front rolls through the Charlotte area.

Mountain Island blue cats ready to make move to shallows

Craig Holt

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. […]