Fishing Archives - Page 744 of 1072

July 8, 2026

Stripers often can be found schooling at the main lake or in the backs of Lake Norman’s feeder creeks during cold months.

Lower end of Lake Norman has been hot spot for stripers, spots, white perch

Even as winter weather continues to dominate most of North Carolina, fishing success has increased at some freshwater venues, including Lake Norman. […]

Capt. Mike Weaver's March 2 party aboard the Streamweaver caught eight wahoo and a handful of blackfin tuna, anchored by an 87.1-pound wahoo and four others over 60 pounds.

Bluewater wahoo bite out of Carolina Beach is awesome

Jerry Dilsaver

Capt. Mike King of the Streamweaver in Carolina Beach thought there would be some wahoo holding in the general area of the Steeples off Carolina Beach last weekend, and he had a group ready to go after them. […]

Kenny Seagle of Salisbury dominated a big field to win the BFL Piedmont Division tournament March 2 on High Rock Lake with a 24 1/4-pound limit, anchored by an 8 1/2-pound lunker.

Seagle’s huge limit wins BFL bass tournament on High Rock

Tony Garitta

After the first five or six anglers each brought one fish to the scales at the March 2 Walmart Bass Fishing League Piedmont Division tournament at High Rock Lake, Salisbury’s Kenny Seagle stunned the crowd at Tamarac Marina by bringing in a 5-fish limit that weighed a whopping 24 pounds, 4 ounces. […]

Guide Chris Wilson relishes being able to stalk redfish in the clear waters of late winter and early spring.

Sight-fishing cool for cold

Bryan Bowers

Sight-fishing is the pinnacle of inshore action for many anglers, and redfish are very suited to be the targets. […]

Sutton Lake's revamped access area includes two new boat ramps and a floating dock between them.

Sutton Lake access area reopens with many improvements

NCWRC Release

The N.C. Wildlife Resources Commission has completed renovations to the Sutton Lake Boating Access Area, and it is now open to the public. […]

Rod Wall of Slab Masters Guide Service on Lake Greenwood said crappie have moved out of deep water and are entering the pre-spawn phase and are suspending in 10 to 14 feet of water near the mouths of tributaries.

Multiple-rod tactics producing lots of Lake Greenwood crappie

Phillip Gentry

Despite cooler and sometimes rainy weather, March is ushering in the spawning ritual for crappie on Lake Greenwood. […]

Guide Brad Taylor is catching big limits of crappie in the mouths of Lake Murray's creeks by tight-lining live minnows.

Crappie fishing at Lake Murray has blasted off in mouth of creeks

Terry Madewell

A full stringer-limit of slab crappie will make a “crappies are biting” believer out of anyone, and guide Brad Taylor of Batesburg is making that crappie-catching connection at Lake Murray. […]

Commercial vessels like these shrimp trawlers would be exempt from boat-registration fees that could increase as much as 750 percent if a bill gets through the state legislature.

Bill in state senate would greatly increase boat-registration fees to pay for inlet dredging

Craig Holt

Three Republican senators from Eastern North Carolina have sponsored a bill in this session of the General Assembly that would increase registration fees – some by as much as 750 percent — for recreational boat owners. […]

Red drum continue to bite, with big schools in the ocean around Beaufort Inlet providing most of the action.

Red drum, black drum, trout still on the menu for Cape Lookout anglers

Jerry Dilsaver

Red and black drum are in the backwaters around Morehead City and in the ocean at the Cape Lookout and Fort Macon rock jetties, and it shouldn’t be long before the parade of spring fish marches into the area, according to Matt Lamb at Chasin’ Tails Outdoors in Atlantic Beach. […]

South Carolina Sportsman’s saltwater fishing school hasn’t flled up yet

South Carolina Sportsman

A few spaces remain in the Saltwater Fishing School put on by North Carolina Sportsman and South Carolina Sportsman. […]