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May 9, 2026

This Hiltons seawater temperature image shows water off Cape Lookout. The imbedded note explains the information.

Fishing help from heavens

Ever had one of those days when you couldn’t locate fish, looked to the sky as a sort of final distraught gesture, spread your arms and said, “Where are the fish?” […]

Chad Poteat (left) and Chris Brown hold four of five fish (total weight 31.84 pounds) that broke the record for the Yadkin Division of the NBC circuit and High Rock Lake. The winning haul was taken March 5.

Kirby takes BFL title at Norman

Tony Garitta

Catawba’s Cliff Kirby won the March 4 Wal-Mart Bass Fishing League North Carolina Division tournament at Lake Norman with a five-fish catch totaling 15 pounds, 8 ounces. […]

Dickson displays a nice-size sheepshead that hit a bait at the Little River Inlet jetties.

Lite Bite

Jerry Dilsaver

Sheepshead weren’t our primary target that morning, but when the conditions changed, they were a welcome substitute for the red drum we had initially planned to pursue. […]

When a dolphin hits a lure, and the angler brings it to the stern, Capt. Allen Downey of the C Escape keeps trolling, hoping for more hits for other anglers.

Sea Escape

Craig Holt

Something inside Tar Heels draws us to the sea. […]

Catfish anglers won’t find bigger specimens of fine-tasting channel cats than the ones available at Blewett Falls.

Big Blue Bite

Mike Marsh

Sunset promised cooling conditions as Randy Willard pulled his truck off a dirt road into what served as a parking lot at the Wildlife Commission ramp downstream from Blewett Falls Dam. […]

A typical Nantahala smallmouth bass will measure between 10 and 17 inches in length, but enough 5- and 6-pounders are caught each spring to keep anglers on the edge of their seats.

Wilderness Smallies

Tim Mead

Would you like to catch smallmouth bass in about as pristine a spot as Tar Heel anglers can find? […]

During May, bass at the Buckhorn pool on the Cape Fear River will hit topwater baits, especially early in the morning.

When Jeffrey Thomas was growing up in the Lee County town of Broadway, there was only one place to go fishing — at the outskirts of town, below the junction of the Deep and Haw Rivers, an old, abandoned dam impounded a section of the Cape Fear River. […]

An angler has whipped this cobia and will walk it around to the stern so a mate can gaff the fish.

I Spy Cobia

Mike Marsh

The day began as a Spanish mackerel fishing trip. Donald Lane, captain of the Impulse, a 58-foot Carolina Custom sportfisherman, set out from the Morehead City municipal docks with rods rigged and ready with spoons and planers. […]

When anglers troll quickly, they seem to get more strikes from Falls Lake crappies if they use straight soft-plastic lures, such as small tubes, instead of curly-tail jigs. Slower trolling is best for curlytails.

Sibling Slab Rivalry

Dan Kibler

Falls of the Neuse Lake and Jordan Lake have grown up together — an hour’s drive apart on either side of the Raleigh-Durham area — since they were impounded more than 20 years ago. […]

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2006 Saltwater Forecast

Craig Holt

Numbers of North Carolina saltwater gamefish important to most anglers continued to improve or hold their own last year, according to the stock status reports of the N.C. Division of Marine Fisheries. […]