East Central NC Archives - Page 36 of 112

Good electronics are essential for navigation and keeping tabs on baitfish during after-dark bass-fishing expeditions.

After-dark electronics are particularly important

Good depth-finding equipment is critical to bass fishermen who spend time on lakes at night. […]

The New River’s fishery is among the best along all of North Carolina’s coastline for redfish, trout and flounder.

New River is a unique coastal estuary

There are two New Rivers in North Carolina; one wanders through the mountains in the northwestern corner of the state, and the other begins and ends within the boundaries of Onslow County on the coast. […]

Guide Andrew Tubbs’ bait tank is aerated and oxygen infused well enough to keep dozens of herring alive all day during the summer.

Bubble up

Mike Marsh

Keeping baitfish alive is one key to catching stripers and hybrids at J. Strom Thurmond Lake. […]

Guide Andrew Tubbs taps the bottom of his boat with a shovel handle to attract the attention of hybrid or striped bass.

I hear you knocking

Mike Marsh

One of guide Andrew Tubbs’s tricks is to tap on the deck of his boat with a shovel handle when hybrids and stripers are biting slowly. […]

Andrew Tubbs nets a Thurmond Lake striper for Justin Marsh with a rubber-coated landing net.

Rubber nets won’t rub fish the wrong way

Mike Marsh

A rubber net is one of the best pieces of gear to conserve fish and fishing time. […]

Guide Rick Patterson has been putting plenty of flounder into his livewell in the waters around Swansboro.

Inshore bite great around Swansboro for flounder, redfish

Jerry Dilsaver

According to Capt. Rick Patterson of Cape Crusader Charters in Cape Carteret, summer has been good for fishing along the Crystal Coast. […]

Nice upper-slot drum aren't in big schools, but they're plenty aggressive in the waters around Sneads Ferry.

Red drum, trout action is topping out around Sneads Ferry

Jerry Dilsaver

Capt. Allen Jernigan of Breadman Ventures in Sneads Ferry said the inshore fishing is as hot as the weather, and that the summer heat has fired up flounder, red drum and speckled trout in the area. […]

Capt. Allen Jernigan has found that red drum and trout are apt to hit topwater baits in the middle of the day on the New River.

Top drum beat – Mid-day topwater bite is great summer feature for New River anglers

Jerry Dilsaver

The morning was so calm the fishermen could hear the clacking of the rattles in the topwater lures they were working across the shallow bay off the Intracoastal Waterway a few miles south of Sneads Ferry. Capt. Allen Jernigan was coaching the fishermen on correct speed and the “walking-the-dog” motion when he noticed a small wave appear behind one of the lures. […]

The author shows off the kind of fish anglers can expect to catch at Thurmond Lake on a summertime striper/hybrid outing.

Hot-weather headliners – When summer arrives, good fishing doesn’t leave as far as Thurmond Lake stripers, hybrids are concerned

Mike Marsh

The dawning sun winked pink against a pastel sky, promising another hot, humid, windless day. Andrew Tubbs had already launched his boat and was waiting at the dock at Clarks Hill Recreation Park, one of several U.S. Army Corps of Engineers recreational facilities along the more than 1,000 miles of shoreline encircling J. Strom Thurmond Lake. […]

Bass pro Davy Hite of Ninety Six feels like bass wait until the water cools off after dark to do most of their feeding once the summer heat sets in.

Lunkers after dark – For great summer bass fishing at Lake Murray, wait until the sun goes down to wet a line

Pete Rogers

More than 30 years ago, Davy Hite and I crossed paths for the first time. It wasn’t on Lake Murray or any other lake for that matter; it was on a basketball court in middle school. […]