North Central NC Archives - Page 107 of 113

High Rock Lake is full of crappie, with a good percentage of fish pushing or breaking the 1-pound mark like thes two slab specimens.

Pushin’, Pullin’ & Rockin’

Trolling has become one of the most-effective tactics to catch numbers of crappie and big slabs, but even among trollers, two schools of thought exist as to which presentation is best. […]

Hillsborough's Kenny Snyder found out just how effective his turkey decoys were when an eagle attacked one of the fake birds.

Eagle attacks turkey decoy during Orange County hunt

Craig Holt

Every hunter has had strange things happen while turkey hunting, especially those who use decoys. […]

Bud Haynes of Clarksville, Va., mines crappie treasures from “trash” in Kerr Lake.

Buggs Island has deep, slab crappie

Craig Holt

April is crappie-fishing time at many large North Carolina reservoirs and 49,500-acre John H. Kerr Reservoir on the N.C.-Virginia border produces some of the biggest slabs in the state. […]

Kennon Brown landed this largemouth bass in 2 feet of water with a crappie minnow on April 11 at Falls Lake.

Falls of the Neuse bass, crappie hot

Craig Holt

Triangle anglers couldn’t pick a better spot than Falls of the Neuse Lake right now. […]

Joel Richardson believes a slot limit would help preserve bass sizes at Randleman Dam lake.

Water authority, Commission tangle over lake rules

Craig Holt

The Piedmont Triad Regional Water Authority, which controls access to Randleman Dam Reservoir in Randolph and Guilford counties, wants to set creel and size limits for gamefish on the 3,007-acre lake, but a bill introduced in the state legislature has met with chilly reception from the N.C. Wildlife Resources Commission. […]

Bass anglers are having good luck on prespawn springtime bass at Shearon Harris Lake.

Prespawn bass fishing hot at Shearon Harris

Craig Holt

Largemouth bass fishing fanatics know the best place in North Carolina to catch a trophy lunker right now is Shearon Harris Lake in southwestern Wake County. […]