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June 26, 2026

Fishing delayed-harvest streams gives all varieties of anglers chances to catch trout.

Delayed harvest helps all anglers

Robert Satterwhite

Opening day of the catch-and-keep season always attracts a distinct group of trout fishers. […]

Largemouth bass are hungry and ready to chase just about anything during May, including topwater lures.

The best month to catch bass

David Fritts

If there’s a month on the calendar that every bass fisherman should have circled, it’s May.

Why? Largemouths are everywhere. […]

Using a jig, Patrick Rose caught this 8-pound, 8-ounce largemouth bass during a spring fishing trip.

The jig is up (and down) in May

Dustin Wilks

Across most of North Carolina, May brings the post-spawn time for bass.

A few late spawners still will be on beds at the state’s northern- and western-most lakes, but for the most part, anglers will be dealing with post-spawners. […]

Michael Jacobs (pictured) and Bobby Jacobs, both of South Hill, Va., won the March 1 Southern Crappie Association tournament at High Rock Lake with 15.50 pounds.

Ledbetter/Jimmy V field was huge

Tony Garitta

A huge field of 270 teams from six states turned out to support the March 8 Jim Ledbetter Memorial/Jimmy V Foundation Charity Bass Tournament at Lake Norman.

The benefit event raised more than $40,000. […]

Weakfish remain in the ocean during winter where they’re targeted by commercial fishermen. Each spring they move inshore where hook-and-line anglers get a chance.

The Other Spring Trout

Bob Goldstein

Weakfish don’t get any respect.

Tar Heels get more excited about spotted sea trout, probably because anglers catch lots of them from the grass beds of Pamlico Sound during the warm season and get runs of big specks at Cape Point each winter. […]