East Central NC Archives - Page 28 of 112

Alton Jones of Waco, Texas, won the Bassmaster Classic in 2008 on the tournament’s first visit to Lake Hartwell.

2015 Bassmaster Classic Preview What will it take to win the Bassmasters Classic on Lake Hartwell this month?

Texan Alton Jones won the 2008 Bassmaster Classic on South Carolina’s Lake Hartwell with three daily limits of five fish each that averaged slightly under 3 1/2 pounds per fish. […]

Winter bass fishing doesn’t have to be slow, and South Carolina’s Lake Wateree is a perfect example.

Solve a winter bass puzzle – Follow the signs to great February bass fishing on South Carolina’s Lake Wateree

Brian Cope

Frost is on the ground, waiting for the sunlight to warm it away; it’s a brisk 42 degrees, and the wind is whipping. […]

Gary Wicker’s 160-inch 10-pointer will likely move into the South Carolina records books as the third-largest buck ever taken in Newberry County.

New Newberry No. 3

Jeff Burleson

Newberry County may not be the county with the most record-book bucks reported, but it has produced 167, which ranks 11th among all of South Carolina’s counties. […]

Ashley Mills’ big buck has 17 points, including three different drop tines.

For an old buck, it was his time

Pat Robertson

Ashley Mills of Blair first saw the buck with the huge rack of unusual antlers on opening day of deer season in Fairfield County. […]

Jeff Manning's 82-pound Lake Wylie blue catfish, caught last Saturday, is the unofficial lake record for the species.

North Carolina angler lands unofficial lake record blue catfish from Lake Wylie

Phillip Gentry

What started out as a trip to the lake to test his outboard motor after some routine maintenance ended up being the fishing trip of a lifetime for Gastonia, N.C., angler Jeff Manning when he hauled an 82-pound blue catfish into his boat on Saturday, Jan. 24, that is believed to be the biggest ever taken at Lake Wylie on the North Carolina-South Carolina border. […]

Anglers needn’t fear winter’s cold water, relying instead on white perch and crappie to fill their coolers. Panfish, which feed more frequently in cold water, will be keying on dying schools of bait on deep water flats through the winter.

Forget the cold! Catch white perch, crappie around schools of threadfin shad

Phillip Gentry

Freshwater anglers who think the recent cold snaps have signaled the end of fishing until spring need to set their sights on white perch and crappie. […]

For the best red drum fishing the winter has to offer, seek out creeks with dark bottoms that get a lot of sunlight.

Why go to school in the winter?

Dan Kibler

Lee Paramore, a biologist for the N.C. Division of Marine Fisheries who specializes in red drum, said said they are a schooling fish for a variety of reasons and will school year-round, but they’re not as noticeable as in the winter. […]

A bait-keeper spring allows anglers to rig a soft-plastic bait weedless on a standard jighead.

Making it weedless

Jerry Dilsaver

Guide Allen Jernigan said that many times he gets far-enough up creeks looking for winter drum and speckled trout that he fishes water that features many layover trees, limbs and other potential snags. […]

Relatively low numbers of bass and lots of blueback herring contribute to an equation that makes for trophy bass like this one.

How do bass grow so big in Jocassee?

Pat Robertson

Although it is the most-infertile of all the major reservoirs in South Carolina, Lake Jocassee in the Upstate mountains has produced the state records for three of the four black bass species recognized by the S.C. Department of Natural Resources. […]