South Central NC Archives - Page 62 of 124

Be careful not to get too close before casting to spring reds.

Be stealthy and keep your distance

During the spring, redfish, trout and flounder step up to the plate and really begin to gather up the groceries. […]

Freshwater mussels of all sorts will attract shellcrackers, which can crack open the shells of the small clams with tooth-like grinders in their throats.

The redear sunfish: nature’s perfect nutcracker

The redear sunfish, known scientifically as Lepomis microlophus and informally as bream, stumpknocker, cherry gill, rouge ear sunfish, Georgia bream and shellcracker, is a slab-sided fish with a red or orange edge along its ear flap, a characteristic that distinguishes it from other sunfish. […]

Guide Maynard Edwards of Lexington said largemouth bass have moved out of the shallows and are headed to deep water.

All kinds of fish really biting at Badin

Craig Holt

Anglers anywhere in the Piedmont who are looking for a “reel good” time should try Badin Lake. Over the past week or so, fishing on the Yadkin River system’s oldest lake has been outstanding. […]

Glenn Finley and Dodd Wood won the IFA Redfish Tour event in Charleston this past weekend, bagging almost $30,000 in cash and prizes.

South Carolina anglers take all of the top spots in IFA Charleston tournaments

South Carolina Sportsman

South Carolina fishermen dominated both halves of an IFA Redfish doubleheader this past weekend in Charleston, with Glenn Finley and Dodd Wood of Belton winning the IFA Redfish Tour’s Atlantic Division event on Saturday and David Jaskiewicz, of Wando winning the IFA Kayak Fishing Tour event the next day. […]

Plenty of big cobia stay around nearshore reefs, never moving into the Port Royal Sound or Broad River during the annual run.

Leave the cobia crowd

Bryan Bowers

Every spring, especially in May, boats and anglers literally line up in the Broad River in hopes of catching a cobia. […]

Stanton McDuffie (left), a former N.C.State BassPack member, and Todd Nixon, a SGM from Pinehurst and Fort Bragg, display their three bass at the Warriors on the Water tournament at Jordan Lake.

Ninth Warriors on the Water tournament draws 150 angler teams to Jordan Lake

Craig Holt

The ninth annual Warriors on the Water Bass Tournament – the idea came from three military retirees – drew 150 two-man teams last Friday at Jordan Lake, with 2013 winners Will Blanton of Fayetteville and Cory Kidwell of Alariogordo, N.M., defending their title with a 5-bass limit that weighed 20.13 pounds and included the day’s big fish, a 7.60-pounder. […]

Josh Hooks puts a big Shearon Harris bass into his boat. Even though the spawn is largely over, Harris bass still tend to be chubs.

Lunker city

Craig Holt

Ask a Triangle-area bass fisherman what North Carolina lake he’d fish if he had one day on earth to throw a Texas-rigged worm, and nine of 10 probably would choose the smallest major impoundment within driving distance of Raleigh. […]

Brian Shinn lifts a hefty Tuckertown Lake largemouth bass.

Uncover Tuckertown’s bass secrets – Don’t let Tuckertown Lake’s size fool you; it fishes plenty big for largemouth bass this month

Craig Holt

The first stop one day last May was Rick’s Restaurant in Denton. It’s a place where loggers, retirees, office workers, telephone linemen, cops, truckers and yes, fishermen, gather for the finest country breakfast in the southern half of Davidson County: scrambled eggs, ham, sausage or bacon, flapjacks, plenty of biscuits or buttered toast, jam, and waitresses who make sure to keep your mug filled with steaming coffee. […]