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Small crankbaits might be a good choice for May and the postspawn, but fish likely will be tough to catch early this month.

High Rock in May a real test

I was asked the other night how I think High Rock Lake will fish later this month when the pros fishing the BASS circuit arrive for one of their major tournaments. […]

Bass become aggressive for topwater lures during May, probably because they’re famished after the spawn and will hit anything that looks like food.

Scratchin’ the surface

Dustin Wilks

May means aggressive, shallow bass, and it doesn’t get any better than that. […]

The author demonstrates the results of a shot with his Ruger Super Redhawk in .454 Casull. The bullet was a 335-grain Hard Cast solid lead slug at approximately 1,600 fps from CorBon. Another dedicated hunter, Abbie Pi, daughter of CorBon V-P Peter Pi Jr., sits on the130-pound boar with the author. Abbie made every hunt with her dad, and helped trail several hogs.

Casull dishes it, if you can take it

Gordon Hutchinson

Like a spouse in a dysfunctional relationship, I find myself missing the abuse.

After all, I had developed a really close relationship with the Ruger Super Redhawk over a four-day hunt for European boar and feral hogs at Caney Creek Lodge. […]

Pope captures BFL title at Murray

Tony Garitta

Roger Pope of Statesville won the March 10 Wal-Mart Bass Fishing League South Carolina Division tournament at Lake Murray, S.C., with a five-bass catch weighing 22 pounds, 7 ounces . Pope received $4,691 and a bonus of $827 from Ranger boats. […]

Anglers fear catches of bass may decline at Tuckertown Lake because of black-mat algae.

Snot Grass

Tony Garitta

I tossed a medium-running crankbait across one of my favorite points at Tuckertown Lake while my fishing buddy, Emery Hollar of Lexington, followed suit. […]

Anglers can drift with cut bait but a trolling motor attached to a remote control device is really handy to avoid rocks and blowdowns — and chase the largest hooked fish.

At the Rock Hop

Dan Kibler

If you’re fishing for striped bass at the Roanoke River, April 30 is the last day you can keep any fish for the frying pan or freezer.

Somehow, that doesn’t faze guides George Beckwith and Rod Thomas. […]

If the water is clear, red drum schools can be visible in the surf at the Outer Banks in spring.

Drum Line

Bob Goldstein

Fall drum are predictable, readily located, widespread, and scattered, but that’s when most fishermen pursue them at the Outer Banks during the peak of the fishing season. […]

Go Long for Groupers

Mike Marsh

It was a nearly windless morning and the sun was just turning a black night into the grayness of predawn at Atlantic Beach.

Twin 250 Yamaha four-stroke engines mumbled quietly as they warmed up, and the turbulence of the engines’ vibrations on the otherwise quiet water of the boat harbor foretold which boat was being readied for a day of fishing. […]

The Tuckasegee River certainly can produce some impressive bronzebacks, as evidenced by this whopping fly-rod caught specimen.

Stream Dreams

Jim Casada

Although I cut my fishing teeth casting for trout at small Appalachian high-country creeks, there’s something about bronzebacks that lurk in moving water which always has been enchanting. […]

Use of decoy turkeys often will pull a jealous gobbler several hundred yards to within gun range.

Gobbler Dreams

Craig Holt

One of the tenets of successful trophy deer hunting also holds true for chasing spring wild turkeys — go where the gobblers are. […]