Bass Fishing
Try mid-lake areas for prespawn fish
Joel Munday likes to fish the mid-lake area of Falls of Neuse during the prespawn. […]
March 2014
Freshwater Fishing
Fishing bridges is a priority in March
Numerous bridges cross Lake Wateree’s tributary creeks, and while some of them do not permit fishing from the actual structure because of safety reasons, some do have designated areas for fishermen. […]
Bass Fishing
Colors are secondary at Falls Lake
Former guide Richard Szczerbala said that finding the correct water temperature — 55 to 58 degrees in March — is the most-important factor in catching prespawn Falls of Neuse bass. […]
Freshwater Fishing
Side-scanning electronics helping crappie fishermen
Ken Boone and Rick Ingle, regular fishing partners, use a side-scan graph that Boone said that has opened up a whole new underwater world for him. […]
Freshwater Fishing
Badin produced state-record blue catfish
North Carolina’s state-record blue catfish weighed 89 pounds and was caught in Badin Lake on Nov. 25, 2006, by Eric Fincher. It replaced an 85-pound fish that had been caught in Lake Norman in 2004. […]
Freshwater Fishing
A banner year for Clarks Hill crappie?
This should be an excellent year for crappie numbers and size on Lake Thurmond, according to Dan Rankin, a fisheries biologist with the S.C. Department of Natural Resources, which conducts annual trap-net surveys for the lake’s crappie. […]
Freshwater Fishing
Badin Lake and the Yadkin River system
Badin Lake is part of the Yadkin River system that was formed by impounding sections of the river to support an aluminum-smelting plant in the town of Badin operated by Alcoa. […]
Freshwater Fishing
Location, design critical when creating brushpiles
Guide William Sasser can almost always find a place to catch crappie in Clarks Hill Lake. He estimates that he has about 200 brush piles in the lake. […]
Freshwater Fishing
Blue catfish in North Carolina
The blue catfish, Ictalurus furcatus, is the largest species of North American catfish and has potential to reach 150 pounds. […]
Bass Fishing
Go over to the dark side
For many anglers, night time is the right time for catching bass, and March is a great time to doing it in the dark on Wylie. […]