East Central NC Archives - Page 83 of 112

Sam Jones shows off the kind of rainbow trout that Lake Jocassee regularly produces.

Freshwater Series: Lake Jocassee

Sam Jones doesn’t know why trout relate to structural features that are 100 feet beneath them. More important than “why” they do, though, is knowing “that” they do so and learning which structures attract the most fish any given month.

Jones, who operates Jocassee Charters, has learned those lessons through longevity. He grew up fishing Upstate waters with his dad, has fished Lake Jocassee for 30 years and has guided for the past 10 years. Jones specialized in controlled-depth trolling for trout, and he often targets fish that suspend well above structural features. […]

Terry Caulder and Shawn Gearheart show off their bragging-sized stripers from Midlands Striper Club event.

Team Catch 22 wins Midlands Striper Club’s March tournament

South Carolina Sportsman

The Lexington-based team of Terry Caulder, Jacob Caulder and Terry Martin, Team Catch 22, won the March 17 Midlands Striper Club tournament on Lake Murray. […]

State legislators are hurrying to try and revise regulations on deer hunting over bait in the Upstate in light of an attorney general's opinion.

Legislators scramble to address Upstate deer baiting

Pat Robertson

A seemingly contradictory ruling by the state attorney general on Upstate baiting for deer has legislators scrambling to address the issue in time to change the law before hunting season this fall. […]

Brent Ehrler won the FLW Major Tour stop at Lake Hartwell, pocketing $100,000 and taking the lead in the Angler of the Year standings.

Ehrler wins FLW Tour stop on Lake Hartwell

Glenn Corley

It was a dramatic ending to four days of the Walmart FLW Major Tour on Lake Hartwell. Brent Ehrler, who had come in second place at this same event last year, was the winner on the first stop of the 2012 tour with a four-day total weight of 74.13 pounds. […]

Deer Hunting

Legislation addresses deer baiting in Upstate

Pat Robertson

A seemingly contradictory ruling by the State Attorney General on baiting for deer in the Upstate has legislators scrambling to address the issue in time to change the law before hunting season this fall. […]

High Rock Lake fishing is turning on, with crappie showing up in numbers.

High Rock slabs headed to local frying pans

Walter Taylor

An early morning storm left High Rock Lake swollen, muddy and full of hungry crappie this past Saturday. […]

Todd Auten is among the South Carolina bass-fishing pros who will be competing for a check at the Lake Hartwell stop of the FLW Tour this weekend.

FLW Tour stops at Lake Hartwell

Glenn Corley

There are 164 FLW Tour pros from 26 states and Canada coming together on Lake Hartwell this week for the first major tournament of the year. […]

Catch the spring wahoo run from Crystal Coast ports.

Wahoo! Wahoo!

Jerry Dilsaver

The Run Off isn’t the fastest charterboat on the Morehead City waterfront, but Capt. Brian Harrington and mate Marty Hiatt work hard to fill the fish box and usually do it well, even if it means a little earlier departure from port. […]

Wahoo will leave Gulf Stream waters and often move slightly inshore in the spring and fall, putting them in range of plenty of fishermen.

What’s about wahoo?

Jerry Dilsaver

There is not an abundance of information on wahoo, acanthocybium solanderi. […]

A planer bridle allows for the planer to easily be added or removed from the line.

The planer bridle rig

Jerry Dilsaver

While wahoo are often caught by baits and lures running at or just below the surface, a good number are caught well below the surface on outfits designed to fish there. […]