A full stringer-limit of slab crappie will make a “crappies are biting” believer out of anyone, and guide Brad Taylor of Batesburg is making that crappie-catching connection at Lake Murray. […]
Red and black drum are in the backwaters around Morehead City and in the ocean at the Cape Lookout and Fort Macon rock jetties, and it shouldn’t be long before the parade of spring fish marches into the area, according to Matt Lamb at Chasin’ Tails Outdoors in Atlantic Beach. […]
One of the simplest and most-effective set-ups for bass fishing is the Carolina rig. […]
If there is one thing Capt. Buster Rush and his family enjoy more than catching crappie, it’s eating them. […]
One thing Robert Munn likes about crappie fishing is that it doesn’t take a lot of expensive gear. While he does use depth finders, these electronics are the extent of his high tech arsenal. The rest, is old school. […]
Capt. Lee Parsons does most of his fishing along North Carolina’s coast from a large, center-console boat, but when he pulled up to the Turkey Creek boating access area near Holly Ridge in Onslow County, he backed a 21-foot, flat-bottomed skiff down the ramp. […]
When brush piles aren’t producing, and the bite is really tough, Robert Munn abandons his cane poles for jigging with fly rods under boat docks. […]
Using a rubber net to land red drum helps prevent injury to the fish and saves fishing time. Other important pieces of gear include a mushroom anchor and a carbon-fiber push pole. […]
At times, red drum will go crazy for topwater lures. This is especially true in the shallow marshes of North Topsail Beach. […]
Flounder are often found in the same, shallow areas where red drum abound, and it is not unusual for these fine-dining fish to strike the same soft-plastic lures that fishermen use to catch red drum. […]
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