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September 12, 2026

This 3-pound, 11-ounce white crappie caught in March 2010 from Tar River Reservoir by Tracey Smith was the state record for almost a month before it was beaten by a single ounce.

Tar River Reservoir has history of record-breaking white crappie

Mike Marsh

In 2010, two Nashville, N.C. anglers set state records for white crappie at Tar River Reservoir. […]

Tommy Short has made thousands of hair jigs in all colors, and he believes the size is more important to getting a crappie to bite than the color.

Jig size may matter more than color to crappie, veteran angler says.

Mike Marsh

Selecting the correct jig size depends on the conditions, with wind and water depth major players. […]

Flipping or pitching is a great way to get a jig or Texas-rigged soft-plastic bait back into shoreline cover like bushes.

Give a flip — or a pitch — to the bushes for prespawn bass

Dusty Wilson

One of the most-productive methods for triggering a reaction strike from a bass is to drop an intruder into his hiding spot when he’s in ambush mode. […]

Jordan Lake’s bass will make a move toward staging areas outside of spawning areas when the water temperature his 55 degrees.

Jordan Lake boat ramps: Not just for launching

Dusty Wilson

It’s not uncommon for anglers to blast off from the boat ramp at full throttle, skipping across the water like a flat stone to an undisclosed honey hole on the other end of the lake. […]

Steve Pietrykowski marks brush piles with marker buoys before and after crappie head to the bank to spawn.

Follow post-spawn crappie back to deep water the same way you followed them into the shallows

Dan Kibler

Millions of words are written annually about the process of catching crappie as they move out of deep water toward the spring spawn. […]

White perch may be great bait for stripers and blue catfish, but don’t put any live ones in your minnow tank.

Beware of minnow-eating white perch

Dan Kibler

White perch have taken hold in many South Carolina lakes, and it’s not uncommon for crappie fishermen to run into them in pretty good numbers, especially in the weeks before slabs really leave deep water and head for the banks. […]

White perch are considered the top catfish bait by many Lake Wylie anglers.

White perch: the best bait for Lake Wylie catfish

Phillip Gentry

In the span of 30 years, the white perch’s range has increased from coastal rivers to just about every freshwater reservoir and river drainage in the Carolinas. […]

Swimbaits can be fished at the surface or as deep as 30 feet, depending on the weight of the jighead and speed of retrieve, and they catch bass.

Versatility makes swimbaits deadly on South Carolina bass in spring

Brian Cope

One of the reasons swimbaits are so effective in March is because bass will be in all stages of the spawn. Some will be on deeper ledges and secondary points waiting for the right time to move closer to shallow water. Others will have moved to docks at the mouths of pockets. […]

Carrying plenty of extra bait to use for chum will help produce more black sea bass around nearshore structure.

Chum for better catches of black sea bass

Jeff Burleson

Black sea bass are voracious predators and will outcompete anything else in their size-class, especially over the winter and early spring. They cover up any available reef structure that harbors baitfish, but quite often, they will hover over certain sections of the structure. […]