Cold weather certainly doesn’t end good fishing on the Santee Cooper lakes; it actually triggers some outstanding fishing for some species — and the blue catfish is right at the top of that list. […]
From the depths of December through the cabin fever days of March, many Palmetto State sportsmen decide their plan of choice is to trade time on the water for armchair adventure. […]
Winter in the North Carolina mountains.
Cold. […]
With winter weather set in across North Carolina during January, the most-active fishing bite at the Triangle lakes — Jordan, Shearon Harris and Falls of the Neuse — has been for crappie. […]
The dropping water temperatures at Lake Murray have reached the point where the bulk of the striper population has followed baitfish upriver, typical for this time of year, producing outstanding fishing. […]
Capt. Steve Sexton is widely known for some of his oceangoing feats, but for fishermen who frequent the Santee Cooper lakes, he is better known for the tactics he uses to catch and — and often release — catfish, crappie and bream. […]
Like plenty of Lake Hartwell anglers, Brad Knight of Belton has been waiting for a consistent pattern to emerge – he and others have been waiting on cooler weather. […]
The increase in the number of stripers in the Santee Cooper lakes is welcome news to fishermen and biologists alike, but there are differences of opinions on what the next step in management should be. […]
Striped bass were once so plentiful in the Cape Fear region that they were classified as one of the nine major striper populations on the Atlantic Seaboard, but this was prior to locks and dams being built along the river to help with commerce between Wilmington and Fayetteville. […]
It’s hard to predict when stripers’, upriver migration will begin since the biggest female fish are the ones most likely to spawn and that’s the size striper fishermen like to target. Much depends on water temperature during the winter. […]
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