Rock for Rocks — How to catch striped bass on Badin Lake

Guide Jerry Hill has turned his attention from Badin Lake to High Rock Lake, where he says the average size of fish is much better.

High Rock Lake is making a play to become the Yadkin system’s best striper fishing lake.

For years, Jerry Hill lived and fished — and guided fishermen for striped bass — on Badin Lake. He moved up Rt. 8 from one end of Davidson County to the other two years ago, settling on High Rock Lake, and now he’s doing most of his fishing on High Rock — but not because of proximity.

He admits there’s no way he’ll catch as many striped bass, aka rockfish, at High Rock as he normally would at Badin, but he’s decided that the prospects for catching trophy striped bass are so much better at High Rock than Badin, that he’s staying home — literally — more often, and especially in the late fall.

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Dan Kibler is the former managing editor of Carolina Sportsman Magazine. If every fish were a redfish and every big-game animal a wild turkey, he wouldn’t ever complain. His writing and photography skills have earned him numerous awards throughout his career.

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