The NCWRC began stocking Bodie bass fingerlings in Hyco Lake on June 19, 2019 in an effort to establish a new fishery in the lake, which has been overrun by tilapia in the past several years. […]
The NCWRC hoped to stock redfish a/k/a red drum, in Hyco Lake to help control the population of tilapia, but their studies determined redfish would not survive due to the quality of water hardness in the reservoir. […]
A retired wildlife enforcement officer and former marina owner, Barry Joyce of Leesburg, N.C., has always been in touch with the fishing community at nearby Hyco Lake, and he said cooler water and weekdays are the ticket for summer bass fishing. […]
The NCWRC took another step toward establishing a red drum fishery at Hyco Lake on March 12, when they held a public forum at the Hyco Lake Campground Community Center in Leasburg to hear input from the public on the possibility. […]
The NCWRC is considering stocking red drum into Hyco Lake. It’s okay if you want to read that sentence again. Yes, THAT Hyco Lake. The freshwater one that’s 3-hours away from saltwater. […]
Among outdoors and non-outdoors people, bass anglers are considered, well, a little off kilter. […]
Jimmy and James Wall of Greensboro found an unusual fishing pattern on March 15 at Hyco Lake, a Duke Energy impoundment in Person County, and they landed one of the most impressive sacks of largemouth bass seen this spring in a Piedmont Bass Classic tournament. […]
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