Sutton Lake is a winter fishing oasis, an 1,100-acre cooling resevoir for Duke Energy’s L.V. Sutton Power Plant near Wilmington, N.C., Sutton remains warm through the winter, with February water temperatures usually in the 70s or low 80s, which gives a summertime feel to fishing, with fish active in the warm water. […]
If you live in North Carolina’s Piedmont, love fishing and have been looking for ways to catch more fish, you don’t have to travel very far. […]
A major reduction is coming to the recreational flounder bag limit in North Carolina. Starting March 1, anglers may only take four fish per person, per day, down from six, because federal fisheries managers decided that summer flounder are being overfished. […]
Nothing screams springtime like a 7-foot rod doubling over and line peeling off the reel like mad. As the weather heats up, so does the fishing. […]
March is a magical month in North Carolina as it makes the first spawning runs of the season at many coastal rivers. […]
In late February and early March, Fontana’s walleye are heading upriver to spawn. They can be caught with fairly simple tactics and lures. […]
For veteran crappie fisherman Rod King of Durham, N.C., March means big crappie in the northern creeks of Falls of the Neuse Lake as increasing daylight warms the shallows. […]
In South Carolina, offshore fishing kicks into gear about the same time spring arrives. While anglers may have picked up a few trophy wahoo over the winter, March is when fish boxes begin to fill, and the bumper catches have T-U-N-A written all over them. […]
Whiting, aka sea mullet or Virginia mullet, are a tasty panfish and one of the first fish of spring to arrive off the North Carolina coast. […]
The underwater world at Kerr Lake, aka Buggs Island, becomes a stage for largemouth bass when warming weather this month pushes the water temperature into the 40s and 50s. […]
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