T_boy
06-25-2009, 03:25 PM
Lake Norman: Limits of stripers on live baits worked 40 feet deep along the river channel ledges. The area near Marker 7 has been most productive. Scattered largemouth bass and crappie at night.
Lake Wylie: Catfish in the 10-pound range on cut baits drift-fished 20 feet down toward the backs of coves. White perch 15-25 feet deep around underwater humps on minnows. Largemouth, mainly at night, on buzzbaits, artificial lizards and worms. Crappie at night around lighted docks on minnows.
Mountain Island Lake: Mainly bream and catfish, including by anglers casting from the banks.
Union County Lakes: Largemouth are striking well at Lake Monroe, taking mainly artificial worms.
Lakes Badin, Tillery, Blewett Falls: Plentiful bream and catfish on traditional baits. Also, white perch and scattered crappie.
Lake Hickory: Mainly bream and catfish. However, there are signs that the striper bite will be picking up soon as the fish move uplake to cooler water flowing from the dam at Lake Rhodhiss.
Lake James: Smallmouth bass on shiners worked fairly deep off the points. Walleye off clay shoreline on crawlers.
Fontana Lake: Nighttime fishing continues to produce walleye and trout. They're hitting crawlers and ice jigs worked 50-60 feet deep under floating lights.
Lake Wateree: Lots of white perch near the dam around humps and hard sandy bottom on earthworms, minnows. Crappie 15-25 feet down around brushy cover and at the mouths of creeks. Stripers are showing increasingly in surface-feeding schools from the dam to Clearwater Cove on a variety of lures cast to the jumps.
Lake Murray: Excellent for catfish from 2 to 8 pounds on crawlers and cut herring. Crappie around brush 15-20 feet deep on minnows.
Lake Hartwell: Stripers, hybrids on live herring fished 20 feet deep off main channel points. They're also hitting Redfin lures. Largemouth in surfacing schools on popping plugs and a lure named the Ima Skimmer, a thin version of the famed Zara Spook.
Lake Jocassee: Trout, beginning to concentrate 20-60 feet deep in the reservoir's main body, on trolled spoons. Also on crawlers fished at night under the lights at the intake.
Santee-Cooper Reservoir: Catfish, mostly at night, on crawlers and cut shad drift-fished 10-25 feet deep.
Outer Banks: Nags Head area: Good for whiting in the surf and at piers, which also are yielding blues, cobia, Spanish mackerel and spot. Oregon Inlet: Big yellowfin tuna, bigeye tuna and gaffer dolphin for parties trolling offshore. Trolling closer in is producing blues and Spanish mackerel. There are blues, flounder, Spanish mackerel and speckled trout in the backwaters. Hatteras Island: Billfish, including several sailfish, and dolphin offshore of Hatteras Village. Blues and Spanish mackerel closer to shore. Black drum, blues, cobia, Spanish mackerel in the surf and at piers. Triggerfish at the jetties near Buxton. Ocracoke Island: Cobia, dolphin offshore. Black drum, keeper-sized flounder and pompano in the surf. Morehead City area: Billfish, dolphin offshore near Big Rock. Blues, king mackerel, Spanish mackerel just off the beach. Blues, flounder, pompano, Spanish mackerel, spot and whiting in the surf and at piers.
Southeastern N.C. Coast: Dolphin, cobia and king mackerel 10-20 miles offshore. Fine bottom action offshore for gag, red and scamp grouper. Flounder at the near-shore artificial reefs. Trout in the Cape Fear River near Southport and Oak Island during early morning on live shrimp. King mackerel, scattered flounder, pompano, Spanish mackerel, spots and whiting at piers.
S.C. Coast: Blackfin tuna, lots of dolphin, king mackerel and yellowfin tuna for parties trolling offshore. Grand Strand area: Very good flounder bite in Murrells Inlet on trolled mud minnows. Black drum and sheepshead around all rock jetties on fiddler crabs. Some limits of Spanish mackerel, croaker, pompano, spot and whiting at piers. Spadefish around the artificial reefs; Charleston area: Spottails around creek mouths and docks on live menhaden and shrimp. Trout at shell rakes on live baits. Scattered flounder, sheepshead, spottails and trout at piers. Beaufort area: Sight-casting to tailing redfish, feeding in the marshes on low tide, is very good using fiddler crabs for bait. Trout in the creeks on mud minnows, live shrimp. Tarpon are starting to move in as cobia migrate to near-shore reefs and wrecks.
Lake Wylie: Catfish in the 10-pound range on cut baits drift-fished 20 feet down toward the backs of coves. White perch 15-25 feet deep around underwater humps on minnows. Largemouth, mainly at night, on buzzbaits, artificial lizards and worms. Crappie at night around lighted docks on minnows.
Mountain Island Lake: Mainly bream and catfish, including by anglers casting from the banks.
Union County Lakes: Largemouth are striking well at Lake Monroe, taking mainly artificial worms.
Lakes Badin, Tillery, Blewett Falls: Plentiful bream and catfish on traditional baits. Also, white perch and scattered crappie.
Lake Hickory: Mainly bream and catfish. However, there are signs that the striper bite will be picking up soon as the fish move uplake to cooler water flowing from the dam at Lake Rhodhiss.
Lake James: Smallmouth bass on shiners worked fairly deep off the points. Walleye off clay shoreline on crawlers.
Fontana Lake: Nighttime fishing continues to produce walleye and trout. They're hitting crawlers and ice jigs worked 50-60 feet deep under floating lights.
Lake Wateree: Lots of white perch near the dam around humps and hard sandy bottom on earthworms, minnows. Crappie 15-25 feet down around brushy cover and at the mouths of creeks. Stripers are showing increasingly in surface-feeding schools from the dam to Clearwater Cove on a variety of lures cast to the jumps.
Lake Murray: Excellent for catfish from 2 to 8 pounds on crawlers and cut herring. Crappie around brush 15-20 feet deep on minnows.
Lake Hartwell: Stripers, hybrids on live herring fished 20 feet deep off main channel points. They're also hitting Redfin lures. Largemouth in surfacing schools on popping plugs and a lure named the Ima Skimmer, a thin version of the famed Zara Spook.
Lake Jocassee: Trout, beginning to concentrate 20-60 feet deep in the reservoir's main body, on trolled spoons. Also on crawlers fished at night under the lights at the intake.
Santee-Cooper Reservoir: Catfish, mostly at night, on crawlers and cut shad drift-fished 10-25 feet deep.
Outer Banks: Nags Head area: Good for whiting in the surf and at piers, which also are yielding blues, cobia, Spanish mackerel and spot. Oregon Inlet: Big yellowfin tuna, bigeye tuna and gaffer dolphin for parties trolling offshore. Trolling closer in is producing blues and Spanish mackerel. There are blues, flounder, Spanish mackerel and speckled trout in the backwaters. Hatteras Island: Billfish, including several sailfish, and dolphin offshore of Hatteras Village. Blues and Spanish mackerel closer to shore. Black drum, blues, cobia, Spanish mackerel in the surf and at piers. Triggerfish at the jetties near Buxton. Ocracoke Island: Cobia, dolphin offshore. Black drum, keeper-sized flounder and pompano in the surf. Morehead City area: Billfish, dolphin offshore near Big Rock. Blues, king mackerel, Spanish mackerel just off the beach. Blues, flounder, pompano, Spanish mackerel, spot and whiting in the surf and at piers.
Southeastern N.C. Coast: Dolphin, cobia and king mackerel 10-20 miles offshore. Fine bottom action offshore for gag, red and scamp grouper. Flounder at the near-shore artificial reefs. Trout in the Cape Fear River near Southport and Oak Island during early morning on live shrimp. King mackerel, scattered flounder, pompano, Spanish mackerel, spots and whiting at piers.
S.C. Coast: Blackfin tuna, lots of dolphin, king mackerel and yellowfin tuna for parties trolling offshore. Grand Strand area: Very good flounder bite in Murrells Inlet on trolled mud minnows. Black drum and sheepshead around all rock jetties on fiddler crabs. Some limits of Spanish mackerel, croaker, pompano, spot and whiting at piers. Spadefish around the artificial reefs; Charleston area: Spottails around creek mouths and docks on live menhaden and shrimp. Trout at shell rakes on live baits. Scattered flounder, sheepshead, spottails and trout at piers. Beaufort area: Sight-casting to tailing redfish, feeding in the marshes on low tide, is very good using fiddler crabs for bait. Trout in the creeks on mud minnows, live shrimp. Tarpon are starting to move in as cobia migrate to near-shore reefs and wrecks.