Bass Archives - Page 51 of 52 - Carolina Sportsman

Spotted bass from Lake Norman like this nice fish caught by Carson Orellana are actually a species known as Alabama bass.

Are spotted bass really Crimson Tide fans?

When is a spotted bass not a spotted bass?

Apparently, when it lives in Lake Norman. […]

Marc Deschenes of VIP Adventures shows off a typical cold-weather bass he targets near brush piles.

Top 2 lures for catching cold-weather bass

As lake temperatures cool across the Carolinas, the largemouth bass make some changes in their eating behavior, but they will still bite for anglers who know where to find them and what they are biting. For some bass anglers, this time of year is their favorite. […]

Using his boat’s electronics, Paul Gettys found this overturned car and driver, missing for 16 years, on the floor of Lake Greenwood.

Advanced sonar helped bass guide locate driver and car missing for 16 years

Phillip Gentry

This past spring, fishing guide Paul Gettys’ extensive knowledge of sonar technology was enlisted by enforcement officers with the S.C. Department of Natural Resources to try to locate a missing fisherman. […]

Nice largemouths, like this chunky specimen landed by Lee Lanier, are becoming more plentiful in the Neuse River.

Crayfish bloom blows up Neuse River bass

Craig Holt

Hurricanes have affected largemouth bass in many North Carolina rivers, especially the Neuse River near Kinston. […]

Mike McSwain shows off the type of bass that is typical along the Devils Elbow stretch of the Lumber River.

Catch more Lumber River bass with these tips

Brian Cope

Just below Fair Bluff, N.C., and above Nichols, S.C., a place known as Devils Elbow sits on the Lumber River. This series of sharp turns on the river has the Lumber running parallel to itself, and the flow of the water here offers fish an abundance of what they’re looking for in a place to make their home. […]

Snow Hill’s Lee Lanier loves to fish the Neuse River for chunky largemouth bass like this one that hit a spinnerbait.

Rollercoaster river bass – Neuse River bass go on a feast when the water is the least

Craig Holt

The water gauge on the US 70 bridge over the Neuse River in Kinston ends about a foot below the guardrail. Just above that 27-foot mark, someone painted a vertical arrow and one word: “Floyd.” […]

Catch more bass in surface weeds with these 3 tips from a seasoned bass angler.

Top 3 tips for catching bass in heavy vegetation

Brian Cope

Noah Tackett lives near the border town of Play Card, South Carolina, and his job as an advertising salesman takes him all over North and South Carolina. He pulls his bass boat right behind him everywhere he goes. […]

Guide Marty Schaffner shows off a nice New River smallmouth bass that hit a topwater popping bug.

Fish North Carolina’s “river of bronze”

Craig Holt

Last July, the New River appeared similar but also different than 42 years earlier, the last time I floated the stream in a canoe. It was 1974, and local residents and conservation organizations were fighting a plan to dam the pristine river that crosses the northwestern corner of North Carolina. Back then, no guides carried fishing parties on the river, and no businesses catering to anglers and paddlers had sprouted along its banks. […]

Regulations that require fishermen to release all bass between 16 and 20 inches, like this one, has helped build Shearon Harris Lake into one of the Southeast’s top trophy fisheries.

Shearon Harris’s slot limit has made it a top trophy bass fishery

Dusty Wilson

For most bass fisherman, the slot limit under which bass at Shearon Harris Lake are managed means little. They’re just looking to get their line stretched and not keeping bass anyway, so it’s no big deal that you can’t put any bass between 16 and 20 inches in your livewell.

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