June 2013 Archives - Page 5 of 7

The author almost likes catching big bream more than big bass; sometimes, it’s a toss up.

It’s bream time across SC

I make my living catching bass, but I love to catch all kinds of fish, and nothing brings back good memories like bluegills. […]

Neil and Patrick McDonald of Thomasville won the Adam & Eve Trail’s April 13 tournament on Badin Lake with this 16-3 limit.

The 99 teams fishing the April 20 Carolinas Bass Challenge N.C. Division tournament knew they would need a stringer of 20 pounds or more if they wanted to take the top prize at Falls of the Neuse Lake. […]

Chip Hamilton will be geared up to take advantage of any topwater schooling action, but his go-to pattern is live-bait fishing.

Stripers are on the move at Lake Hartwell this month, and action can be great.

Terry Madewell

You’ll need eyes in the back of your head when fishing Lake Hartwell for stripers and hybrids this month. […]

Paul Cleveland of Charlotte puts the squeeze on big catfish like this flathead up and down the Yadkin River system.

Using your noodle – Pulling huge blues, flathead out of his hand-made “boxes” is Charlotte man’s joy

Tony Garitta

Paul Cleveland of Charlotte doesn’t fit the preconceptions of a guy who grabs for catfish. […]

Cover: June 2013 (NC)

North Carolina Sportsman

Outer Banks headboats target everything from grouper to black sea bass to croaker, while bass fishermen find plenty of action at the Piedmont Triad-area municipal lakes. […]

South Carolina bream are made for kayaks and fly-fishing equipment.

Bream, buggy whips and kayaks – Paddle your way to some great Upstate bream fishing with a fly rod in hand

L. Woodrow Ross

The fly rod curved like a limber buggy whip, and the fly line curled lazily over the morning mist rising from the stained water. It propelled the leader and popping bug accurately, dropping softly under the overhanging limbs along the shoreline. […]

Doormat flounder are common June catches along the ICW from Wrightsville Beach to Carolina Beach and into Snow’s Cut.

Flat Out Fun – It’s ‘doormat’ time for Cape Fear flounder fishermen, and docks are a good place to start

Jeff Burleson

June brings real change to inshore waters with spring coming to a close. The perfect storm brews in the creeks and sounds along southeastern North Carolina’s coast; local estuaries boom with life: floods of crabs, slurries of small fishes and shrimp and boatloads of jazzed-up gamefish, including America’s favorite fluke. […]