August 2012 Archives - Page 7 of 7

Ray Griffin won the BFL Piedmont Division Tournament on High Rock Lake in early June with a catch of almost 20 pounds.

Blankenship good alone

Fishing by himself, James Blankenship of Lexington topped a field of 108 teams to win the Carolina Bass Challenge North Carolina Division at High Rock Lake on June 2. […]

Lumber and Little Pee Dee rivers are heaven for fishermen who like solitude and big redbreast sunfish.

Black-water Redbreasts

Pete Rogers

Drifting slowly through Marion County along the oil-black vein known as the Lumber River, swollen cypress trees line its banks draped with gray beards of Spanish moss. […]

The lemon-lime “snake worm” was Sniper Striper Tackle’s first big seller; it’s used as a bucktail trailer by fishermen who troll for stripers.

Striper Sniper

Phillip Gentry

In 2003, Troy Roberson, a former Jordan Lake State Park ranger, founded the fishing-guide service Striper Sniper Adventures. […]

Light and ultralight spinning or spincast tackle and small spinners such as Beetle Spins will draw plenty of strikes from redbreast sunfish.

Like most panfish, fishing for redbreast sunfish is a light-duty affair. Four-pound test monofilament on a 5-foot spinning or spincasting outfit is plenty of backbone for sunfish that rarely push a pound. […]