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May 10, 2026

Lake Norman anglers are catching striped bass mixed with spotted bass and suspended in deep water.

Spots, stripers warm up Lake Norman December fishing

Spotted bass and stripers are the main targets at Lake Norman this month for guide Craig Price of Denver. […]

Striped bass aren’t slowed down by cold water, in fact, they are much more active when the water temperature drops to 50 degrees or lower.

Have a holiday striper

I make my living fishing for bass, and I certainly love to fish for them, but sometimes I like to fish for other species of gamefish. I love to fish for bream, crappie and striped bass, and December is the time I fish for stripers and hybrids in Lake Murray and Clarks Hill and Wateree and even Santee Cooper. […]

Big blue catfish don’t appear to understand the concept of hibernating in the winter. They thrive on baitfish that are dying from the cold and can be caught on a variety of cut baits.

Having and beating those ‘winter blues’

With winter upon us and cold weather as harsh and brittle as a dried twig, most outdoors-minded people are enjoying warm, cozy fireplaces, while the true fishermen are challenging the cold.

Putting on their cold-weather survival gear and attaching the enclosures around the cockpit of their boats, they continue doing what they do the best: catching catfish on the Santee Cooper lakes.

Big-water streams such as the Nantahala River are more productive than smaller streams during the winter.

Winter arrives at high country — How to continue catching trout

Robert Satterwhite

Winter comes to the mountains in muted shades of gray, green and brown. […]

Mike Robertson shows off a big blue catfish he caught fishing with Capt. Rodger Taylor.

Catfish action picking up on Lake Wylie, might get better

The winter catfish bite on Lake Wylie has turned on, and a lot of chunky fish are being caught. […]

Guide Kevin Davis said size matters right now on Lake Moultrie, where big crappie are taking center stage and numbers are lagging.

Numbers down, but biggest of Lake Moultrie’s crappie are biting

The big crappie bite is “on” at Lake Moultrie right now. Guide Kevin Davis of Blacks Camp said that catching big numbers of fish have slowed, but plenty of slab crappie are being taken right now. […]

Crappies are providing most of the action at Lake Wylie near Charlotte.

Lake Wylie crappie action great for last page on calendar

If you’re a Charlotte-area fishermen, your best option in early December is to head for Lake Wylie with crappie in mind. […]

The SCDNR stocked 16,000 shellcrackers in the Savannah River and 30,000 redbreast sunfish in the Black River over the past two weeks.

SCDNR does massive sunfish stockings in two rivers

SCDNR News Release

The S.C. Department of Natural Resources utilized a specially equipped fish hauling truck to stock 30,000 redbreast sunfish fingerlings at Red’s Landing on the Black River between Williamsburg and Georgetown counties on Nov. 29. […]

Warm water from a power-plant discharge will fool gamefish like this bass into thinking it’s really springtime instead of early winter.

Hot Hole Fishing

North Carolina usually doesn’t get its coldest winter weather until about the third week of January, but some years – 2010 and 2011 being fine examples — the freeze arrives in time for the Christmas holidays. […]

Guide Andy Fox targets and catches schooling bass in warm-water discharge areas on jerkbaits.

Go to ‘school’ in the hot hole

Some canals or creeks that carry warm-water discharge away from power plants have restricted access to boats. The mouth of the warm-water discharge canal at Belews Lake, for example, is barricaded to keep boats out. […]

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