Freshwater Fishing Archives - Page 225 of 293

Cover: March 2013 (SC) – Fishing

Learn how to drag a gobbler away from its harem, and find out why Lake Hartwell is an up-and-coming crappie destination. […]

Shooting a jig under a dock requires plenty of practice to get the proper timing of releasing the jig and then the line to ‘shoot’ it parallel to the water.

How to shoot docks for crappie

Phillip Gentry

The art of shooting docks is a skill no crappie angler should be without. Shooting a jig allows the angler to present a bait well back under a boat dock or other overhead structure that couldn’t otherwise be reached. […]

Slow-troll live bait for Jocassee trout, bass in winter

Phillip Gentry

Forget about downriggers and other specialized gear that’s often associated with Lake Jocassee. Try this light-tackle method for winter bass and trout. […]

Walleye are one of the species targeted as having high levels of mercury contamination in Nantahala Lake.

High levels of mercury found in bass, perch, walleye in 2 mountain lakes

Robert Satterwhite

State officials have issued fish consumption advisories for Lake Chatuge in Clay County and Nantahala Lake in Macon County after recent testing showed unsafe mercury levels in smallmouth bass, largemouth bass, yellow perch and walleye in Nantahala Lake and white bass and largemouth bass in Lake Chatuge. […]

Clay Henderson and Jason Knight caught these nice Lake Wateree blue catfish while anchored.

Bass, crappie bite slows, but catfish bite takes off at Lake Wateree

Terry Madewell

There’s a lot of water flowing through Lake Wateree right now, and it’s temporarily slowed the crappie and largemouth fishing. […]

Beginning March 1 and running through April 30, fishermen can creel two striped bass per day from the Roanoke River and its tributaries, with certain size restrictions.

State to open Roanoke River striped bass season on March 1

NCWRC Release

The N.C. Wildlife Resources Commission will open the entire Roanoke River Management Area to striped bass harvest from March 1 through April 30. […]

Mitch Simmons (left) and Andy Buchanan of Lake Waccamaw State Park's staff examine a mass of aquatic vegetation at the NCWRC's Lake Waccamaw Ramp. They found native southern naiad and Hydrilla, a federally listed noxious weed

State planning to deal with 605 acres of hydrilla in Lake Waccamaw

Mike Marsh

State officials are putting together a plan to deal with the discovery of hydrilla at Lake Waccamaw, a 9,000-acre natural lake in Columbus County. […]

Guide Linwood Thornhill said February usually features consistently good action on catfish on the Santee Cooper lakes.

Santee up for a change

Terry Madewell

February fishing on the Santee Cooper lakes can be likened to the calm before the storm, except the winds of change are already blowing a bit of a breeze. […]

A lone fisherman works a section of the lower Nantahala River, one of North Carolina’s top-drawer trout streams.

The other Nantahala

Robert Satterwhite

The Nantahala River in Macon and Swain counties is primarily known for its challenging white-water rapids that attract paddlers — amateur as well as Olympic-class — by the thousands during the summer and fall, it is also widely recognized as one of the mountain area’s premier trout streams, so good that Trout Unlimited included it on its list of the top 100 trout streams in the United States — along with the Davidson River. […]