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Cold weather has cleared the North Inlet marshes of fishermen, but the redfish are still there and biting up a storm.

North Inlet marshes are full of reds, but not of fishermen

Despite the bitter cold, anglers are taking advantage of a strong redfish bite in the marshes North Inlet are reaping the rewards with daily double-digit catches. […]

Steve Pack and Jacob Chalmers show off the kind of blue catfish that have been biting on the upper end of Lake Marion.

Blue catfish bite kicks off in upper end of Lake Marion on rising water

Terry Madewell

It’s only takes a few inches of rising water for the catfish action to go from okay to great in the upper end of Lake Marion, and according to Andy Pack at Packs Landing, the water is rising and the catfish action is on. […]

Fishermen have been catching plenty of speckled trout, and a mixture of smallish to large fish, in and around the Neuse River.

Guide said 2014 trout closure has been a boon for Neuse River specks

Jerry Dilsaver

Joe Ward of FlyDaddy Charters in New Bern is looking at the closure of speckled trout fishing last year as a godsend – a key factor in the excellent fishing that anglers have enjoyed along the Neuse River since the season re-opened last Sunday. […]

Alabama's Chris Lane is wrapped up tight as he fishes a Lake Hartwell boat dock during Wednesday's practice for this weekend's Bassmaster Classic.

Gray hopes Buggs Island background helps out in Hartwell Bassmaster Classic

Dan Kibler

At 56,000 acres, Lake Hartwell is a little bigger than Brandon Gray’s home lake, Buggs Island, aka Kerr Reservoir. And it’s a little bit clearer, and it’s got spotted bass. […]

Bass pro Andy Montgomery of Blacksburg was wrapped up like a mummy for Wednesday's final practice day for this weekend's Basssmaster Classic on Lake Hartwell.

Bassmaster Classic pros will be fighting the weather as well as Hartwell’s bass

Dan Kibler

Besides bass and each other, the pro fishermen who kick off competition in the Bassmasters Classic on Lake Hartwell on Friday will have another opponent: Mother Nature. […]

Rather than battling the elements out in the main lake, wintertime crappie anglers can find fish stacked up under deep water boat docks that provide both shade and cover for the fish.

Forget deep brush, go to deep docks for dead-of-winter Hartwell crappie

Phillip Gentry

According to guide Doug Youngblood, one of the most-productive patterns crappie fishermen can count on in the dead of winter is targeting boat docks in deep water. […]

Charlie Cone of Newport and his son, Chris, landed this enormous, 78.66-pound king mackerel, in a Florida tournament three weeks ago. The fish is a pending line-class world record for king mackerel.

Newport angler’s huge Florida king mackerel is pending line-class record

Jerry Dilsaver

Charlie Cone of Newport was looking for a little downtime three weeks ago when he headed to Key West, Fla., to fish the Stock Island Marina Village King Mackerel Tournament with his son, Chris, who is station at Key West in the U.S. Coast Guard. […]

Not all anglers need huge boats. And, as pro anglers Scott and Marty Glorvigen know, smaller electronics better fit the smaller crafts most families use.

One size doesn’t fit all

Allan Tarvid

Every now and then, as I poke along through life, I’m hit with small blasts of clarity. […]

Most fishermen have all they need to build a homemade downrigger in their tackle box or shop.

Hold onto that hard-earned money; make your own downrigger

Tony Garitta

With striped bass, hybrid bass, spotted bass and white bass in many North Carolina lakes, downriggers have become standard equipment to get baits down to these open-water fish, but they aren’t a poor-man’s fishing tool, with most systems costing more than $200. […]

Commission postpones four public meetings because of weather

North Carolina Sportsman

Due to anticipated inclement weather across North Carolina, a handful of public meetings scheduled for discussion of fishery and wildlife issues have been postponed, but a meeting to discuss the replacement of an important buoy off Wrightsville Beach will remain on schedule for Tuesday night. […]