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Bonneau Ferry offers family fishing in a relaxed, less-crowded setting, and it's open for adult-youth fishing through October.

Bonneau Ferry WMA opened for adult-youth fishing through October

The South Carolina Department of Natural Resources’ Bonneau Ferry Wildlife Management Area (WMA), located near Cordesville in Berkeley County, opened for another season of fishing on March 1, 2017. […]

Crappie on Kerr Lake are usually spawning in April, but this year’s crop may be finished when April arrives.

Catch Kerr crappie on their way out

Dan Kibler

Crappie fishing in April is usually a spawning deal, but according to Chris Bullock of Kerr Lake Crappie and Cats Guide Service, 2017 isn’t shaping up as the usual deal. […]

April 1 marks the beginning of trout season in 25 counties featuring hatchery-supported trout waters in western North Carolina.

Hatchery-supported trout waters opening on April 1, 2018

NCWRC Release

The N.C. Wildlife Resources Commission will open Hatchery-Supported Trout Waters in 25 western counties at 7 a.m. on April 1. The season will run through Feb. 28, 2018. […]

Plenty of big bass will be in Lake Wateree’s shallow water throughout April, including prespawn, spawning and post-spawn fish.

Shallow season at Lake Wateree

Pat Robertson

Bass angling professional Dearal Rodgers loves fishing Lake Wateree in March, and he shares his reasons why, and what he uses to catch them this time of year. […]

Smallmouth bass are losing ground in Fontana Lake to their spotted bass cousins, but they still provide anglers with plenty of enjoyment.

Fontana Lake is a bass buffet for anglers

Tony Garitta

Bass anglers on Fontana Lake have a lot to choose from this month. Spotted bass, smallmouth bass, and largemouth bass are all active and hungry this month on the western N.C. lake. […]

Jonathan Grady knocked off these two shad in the swift waters below Lock and Dam No. 1 in the Cape Fear River upstream from Wilmington.

Run, shad, run

Jerry Dilsaver

The Cape Fear River has a variety of fishing opportunities, and one of the spring highlights is shad, striper and catfish action in the tailwaters of Lock and Dam No. 1 about 20 miles upriver from Wilmington, N.C. […]

Guide Andy Fox likes a variety of baits for prespawn bass on Lake Hickory, and jigs and soft-plastics when bass begin to spawn.

It’s big-bass time on Hickory

Tony Garitta

Andy Fox of Fishers of Men Guide Service changes tactics during April as largemouth bass transition from staging areas to their spawning grounds on North Carolina’s Lake Hickory. In either phase, Fox (828-312-8711) said plenty of bass from 4 to 7 pounds will be caught this month. […]

Guide Seth Owens likes to fish stinkbaits for Lake Hartwell channel cats in 20 to 30 feet of water in April.

Try Hartwell’s cats

Pat Robertson

April is when the last vestiges of winter become just memories, the days get longer and the water temperature rises into that magic range in the low 60s that puts the catfish in Lake Hartwell on the move. That’s when the fishing starts to get good, according to guide Seth Owens of Anderson, S.C. […]

Hydro Glow offers a line of submersible, battery-powered lights that erase the need for noisy generators when flounder gigging and night fishing.

Battery-powered submersible lights make flounder gigging quieter, more enjoyable

Brian Cope

In the early days of flounder gigging, participants were just about bound to a boat, and while plenty of fish have been gigged from boats, lots of flounder tucked themselves away in areas of water that were only inches deep, safe from the drone of the generators that were necessary to power the lights used for gigging. […]