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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

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. […]

Weather changes should cause anglers to change their lures to catch more Broad River smallmouth bass.

Try river smallies

Brian Cope

April can be a tough month as far as weather goes. A string of warm days can be interrupted by just as many cold days, and this has an impact on the smallmouth bass fishing on South Carolina’s Broad River. […]

False albacore are often mistaken for Atlantic bonito. Albacore have wavy lines down their backs, while bonito have solid stripes in the same places.

Bash those bonito

Jeff Burleson

During spring, the saltwater fishing arena changes on almost on a weekly basis as water temperatures rise. And for a brief intermission during April, a strong push of Atlantic bonito arrive along the coast of the Grand Strand well within reach of anglers with small boats. […]

Guide Richard Andrews of Bath targets Roanoke River’s striped bass this month with soft-plastic paddletail baits fished on leadhead jigs.

Roanoke stripers running

Craig Holt

If it’s April, dogwood blossoms in North Carolina must be “as big as a squirrel’s ear” and striped bass will migrate inland — or at least that’s what old-time Roanoke River anglers say. […]

Morgan Watt puts the death grip on a flounder he caught in Fripp Island’s Turtle Creek.

Wade for flounder

Brian Cope

It’s tough to pick a fish species that won’t bite in South Carolina’s Lowcountry waters this month, and flounder are no exception. One of the most-consistent ways of catching flatfish is by stranding yourself at low tide and fishing shallow, isolated pockets of water that turn into ponds between tide cycles. […]