East Central NC Archives - Page 44 of 112

Anthony Gagliardi of Prosperity finished fifth when the FLW Tour visited Lake Hartwell in 2011.

FLW Tour visits Lake Hartwell for 4-day tournament this week

The Upstate will once again play host to 150 pro bass fishermen s and 150 co-anglers when the Walmart FLW Tour visits Lake Hartwell March 6-9. […]

When striper guides swap over to crappie fishing on Lake Hartwell, you know the crappie bite is on. These two big slabs came aboard guide Steve Pietrykowski’s boat on back-to-back casts.

Crappie fishing on Hartwell is so good it’s drawing striper guides

Phillip Gentry

You know the crappie are biting when striped bass guides are taking time off from chasing linesides to go do some perch jerking. […]

Guide McMcSwain said smallmouth bass have really been biting on the Broad River the past several weeks -- despite changing weather patterns.

Broad River bronzebacks putting on quite a show

Brian Cope

Water levels and temperatures have fluctuated greatly on the Broad River for the past few weeks, but the smallmouth bass are still biting, and adventurous anglers are having success reeling in good numbers of bronzebacks and some big ones, too. […]

Bass fishing gets cranked up on Lake Wylie about as early as on any other South Carolina reservoir, but fish are usually on the move.

Wylie’s wandering whoppers – Learn how to fish both Marches for Lake Wylie bass

Brian Cope

Gastonia’s Mike Stone was casting a jerkbait across a point near Lake Wylie’s Buster Boyd Bridge; he gave the bait another twitch, let it settle, then a smile spread across his face as he set the hook and began to reel in a 3 1/2-pound bass. […]

Rod Wall of Ninety Six looks for crappie to move out of deep water and enter the prespawn phase this month at Lake Greenwood.

Crappie in the Crosshairs – Lake Greenwood is long-line trolling paradise in March

Phillip Gentry

Despite some occasional cold and rainy weather, March ushers in the spawning ritual for crappie on Lake Greenwood, and Rod Wall of Ninety Six can think of no better place to spend the month. […]

Hyde County creeks, rivers and bays offer great inshore saltwater habitat.

Seek reds where they Hyde in western Pamlico

Jerry Dilsaver

Just a few yards into a small creek off Rose Bay, near Swan Quarter in Hyde County, the mud trails of several puppy drum that spooked from Capt. Richard Andrews’ boat passing nearly silently overhead gave away their presence. […]

Crappie are biting all over Lake Wateree this month.

Lake Wateree is a slab supermarket

Terry Madewell

If you’re looking for a lake that can produce a 20-fish limit of crappie that weighs more than 30 pounds this month, there’s some good news for fishermen: it’s one of the best times of the year to target slabs on Lake Wateree, but experts also agree it can be also one of the more complex times in terms of crappie fishing strategy. […]

Guide William Sasser shows off the kind of crappie he said is regularly caught at Clarks Hill Lake during March.

Peak slab season? Veteran Clarks Hill guide looking forward to spring crappie fishing

Pat Robertson

Guiding on Clarks Hill Lake is a business for William Sasser, but crappie fishing takes him back to his childhood. Although most of the business of his guide service and bait shop centers on fishing for stripers and hybrids, it was his ability to catch crappie on the sprawling Savannah River reservoir that got him into guiding. […]

Arkansas angler Jerry McCready discovered a crappie bite in the spillway below Lake Greenwood that produced better fish than the winning weights in Saturday’s Crappie Masters event there.

Lake Greenwood spillway bite is producing lots of big crappie

Phillip Gentry

Several days of boredom led Jerry McCready of Cabot, Ark., to discover a phenomenal crappie bite right under the noses of local anglers. […]

Eighty flounder a year for the next four year will be tagged as part of a study funded by CRFL funds.

Flounder-tagging study gets boost from CRFL grant

Jerry Dilsaver

This summer, a research team from UNC-Wilmington and N.C. State will begin a second study on the movement of southern flounder, funded by a $150,000 grant from Coastal Recreational Fishing License funds to study. […]