Inshore Fishing
Paddle up a paycheck
In mid-November last year, Crappie USA, a major national crappie-fishing tournament circuit based in Benton, Ky., announced that it would add a kayak division to its 2015 tournament events. […]
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Stripers have turned off at Wateree, but a great blue catfish bite has taken over
A funny thing happened during a hunt for schooling stripers on Lake Wateree for veteran fisherman Chuck Porter. […]
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Forget the bluefins! The drum are biting around the Cape Lookout rock jetty
Noah Lynk of Noah’s Ark Charters in Harkers Island said it’s hard to ignore the lure of chasing huge bluefin tuna within a few miles of the beach at Cape Lookout, but for fishermen who don’t have the heavy duty equipment or the desire to get pulled around by a 700-pound fish, the inshore fishing around the Cape has been good. […]
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Offshore wahoo bite has been great around Winyah Scarp
The season of giving continues into the New Year for anglers willing to brave the 60-mile journey to the blue waters at the Winyah Scarp, as fishermen are finding monster-sized wahoo and lots of them. […]
Greener Pastures
Look for big duck moves
While it may be the first month of the year, it is the last opportunity to sit in a blind and take down a limit of ducks. […]
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Lake Norman anglers welcome great cold-weather hybrid bite
Lake Norman’s fishery has changed for the better, according to one guide, and the winter bite is showing exactly how, with a lot of hybrid bass being caught from the 32,510-acre reservoir on the Catawba River. […]
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Back-to-back bluefin add up to more than 1,500 pounds for Fuquay-Varina captain
The crew of the Grady Bunch, fishing the first two days of 2015 just outside Beaufort Inlet, may not have landed a state-record bluefin tuna, but the three men and a boy almost certainly accomplished a feat no other North Carolina saltwater crew has duplicated, two bluefin tuna that combined to weigh more than 1,500 pounds. […]
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Kid’s big day at Lake Moultrie includes two big citation catches
A good day on Lake Moultrie is catching a 2-pound crappie. A 25-pound catfish also makes for a memorable day. […]
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Cramerton youngster decks huge blue catfish on New Year’s Day trip
An “horrible day of fishing” is how Dieter Melhorn of Cramerton described a New Year’s Day catfishing trip to South Carolina’s Lake Wateree. […]
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Young NC angler lands 60-pound blue cat from Lake Wateree
An “horrible day of fishing” is how Dieter Melhorn of Cramerton, N.C., described a New Year’s Day catfishing trip to Lake Wateree. During the outing, he and his 8-year-old son, Gracen, only got six bites. […]