Fishing Archives - Page 672 of 1072

July 11, 2026

Dieter Melhorn's 60-pound, 3-ounce blue catfish is one of the biggest ever caught from Lake Wylie.

Lake Wylie spits out 60-pound blue catfish

Blue catfish have become an increasingly important part of the fishery at Lake Wyle, but the monster caught last week by Dieter Melhorn – 60 pounds and three ounces – put an exclamation point on the status of this fishery. […]

Guide Richard Andrews said his fishermen have had to wade through a lot of small specks, but most are filling their limits of trout.

Bays, creeks on west side of Pamlico still full of trout, reds, stripers

Jerry Dilsaver

The bays and creeks along the western side of Pamlico Sound from Willow Point near the mouth of the Pungo River to Stumpy Point are holding a lot of puppy drum, speckled trout, stripers and an occasional flounder. […]

Guide Marc Deschenes said that anglers like Madison Wright can catch plenty of nice bass through the winter using a handful of techniques.

Don’t give up on winter bass, Summerville guide said

Brian Cope

Marc Deschenes does most of his fishing and guiding these days on the six ponds at his VIP Adventures in Summerville, but he feels like the techniques that work for winter bass in his smaller waters can transfer to much-bigger reservoirs across South Carolina. […]

Striper fishing has been great on Lake Hickory in recent weeks, with plenty of fish and a few really nice ones being regularly caught.

Try Lake Hickory for striper numbers, Rhodhiss for giant fish

Craig Holt

Cooling water has turned on striped bass on Lake Hickory and Lake Rhodhiss. For numbers of fish, anglers should head to Hickory; if they want to try for a magnum-sized fish, Rhodhiss is the place to be, according to guide Joe Jobin of Xtreme Striper Fishing. […]

Guide Ricky Kellum has been catching speckled trout and puppy drum in creeks off the New River.

Creeks off New River are producing plenty of trout, puppy drum

Jerry Dilsaver

Capt. Ricky Kellum of Jacksonville said fish are biting in the New River and the creeks that feed it, and he said with several days of sunshine and warm temperatures predicted, the fishing should improve – and it is already pretty good. […]

Capt. Mark Stacy said plenty of redfish and trout are still active in shallow areas around Little River.

Stay shallow around Little River for trout, redfish

Jeff Burleson

With winter showing up this weekend, inshore fish around Little River are in the shallows and taking lures on command. […]

The old days of having to buy new units to take advantages of new functionality are long gone, since modern electronics are fully upgradable.

Software updates

Allan Tarvid

Brand-new, highly desirable sonar and GPS features are announced at least once each product year by the makers of marine and outdoor electronics. […]

Chris (left) and Mike Myers of Lexington won the Dec. 14 Susan G. Komen cancer benefit at High Rock with two stripers weighing 20.50 pounds.

Lexington anglers win Komen benefit striper tournament

Tony Garitta

Mike and Chris Myers, both of Lexington, topped a rain-soaked field of 18 teams to win last Saturday’s Susan G. Komen Fishing for a Cure Striper Tournament on High Rock Lake held in conjunction with the Ole North State Line Siders. […]

Guide Brad Taylor said following sea gulls is the best way to find and catch Lake Murray stripers.

Catch Lake Murray stripers? It takes some gull-watching

Terry Madewell

The striper fishing at Lake Murray is red hot, and if you want to go where the action is, just follow the gulls. […]

Guides like Jot Owens have been regularly catching and releasing between a dozen and two-dozen stripers a day in the rivers around Wilmington.

Winter stripers are early arrivals in Wilmington rivers

Jerry Dilsaver

There is a moratorium on possession of stripers in the Cape Fear River and its tributaries, but that doesn’t keep fishermen from playing multiple rounds of catch-and-release in the three rivers that converge at Wilmington. […]