Freshwater Fishing Archives - Page 214 of 292

July 13, 2026

Largemouth bass action has been great on Tuckertown, Badin and Tillery reservoirs.

Bass bite great on lower Yadkin chain lakes

The largemouth bite has exploded at Badin, Tillery and Tuckertown lakes, according to Maynard Edwards of Lexington’s Yadkin Lakes Guide Service.
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Luke Wilson with a big crappie taken on a slip float rig during July.

Russell Roulette – Stick to deep water, and Lake Richard Russell will usually produce a great, mixed-bag summertime catch

Terry Madewell

Summertime lock several species of fish into predictable patterns, and that can be a very good thing for fishermen if they adapt their efforts. […]

River Stalkers – Catching tailrace stripers below Catawba and Yadkin dams

Phillip Gentry

Tailraces below dams on the Yadkin and Catawba rivers are great places to catch stripers, and kayaks are the perfect watercraft to fish from. […]

Guide Van Hughes of Stem regularly catches big blue catfish like this one from the deep waters of Kerr Lake.

Magnum cats – Big blues and flatheads await anglers who probe Kerr Lake’s summer waters

Craig Holt

John H. Kerr Reservoir’s fishing reputation once was as a top destination for largemouth bass and striped bass, but those days have disappeared. […]

Guide Rod Wall puts most of his effort into fishing bottlenecks for crappie at night during the summer.

Dancin’ in the dark – Beat the heat and avoid the crowds, then fill your cooler with crappie from Greenwood, Murray and Clarks Hill.

Phillip Gentry

On any given lake, on any given night, particularly during the summer, there are a limited number of spots where a fisherman can go, tie up the boat and have a reasonable chance at catching a cooler full of crappie. […]

Freddie Sinclair continues to catch crappie at Shearon Harris Lake during summer’s heat.

Long-lining producing great crappie catches on Shearon Harris

Craig Holt

Anglers who think crappie fishing isn’t worth the effort once the spring spawn ends haven’t tried summertime long-lining at Shearon Harris Lake. […]

Mike Gault displays a mess of Broad River channel cats destined for the deep fryer.

Broad River’s unknown channel cats are making plenty of noise

Phillip Gentry

According to Union County angler Mike Gault, it doesn’t matter where you cast in the Broad River these days, your chances are excellent of bringing back a feisty channel catfish on your retrieve. […]

Guide Rodger Taylor is catching a mixture of blue catfish and channel cats on Lake Wylie, drifting throughout the day and after dark.

Catfish bite is on at Lake Wylie for blues, channels

Terry Madewell

The bite for channel and blue catfish on the South Carolina end of Lake Wylie is about as hot as the weather, according to guide Rodger Taylor of Rock Hill. […]

Hybrid bass, not stripers, will become a top-level predator at Lake Norman once stockings by the N.C. Wildlife Resources Commission take hold.

Commission stocking hybrids; will replace stripers in Lake Norman

NCWRC Release

Fisheries biologists with the N.C. Wildlife Resources Commission on Wednesday stocked 162,500 hybrid striped bass into Lake Norman, marking a shift in the agency’s management of the 32,510-acre reservoir from a striped bass fishery to a hybrid striped bass fishery. […]

June is a great time to catch big catfish on either of the Santee Cooper lakes.

It’s hot, but so is fishing

Terry Madewell

Striper season officially shuts down from June through September, so the focus moves to other species, but there’s plenty of fish that continue to bite well throughout the summer. […]