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The waters of Morehead City and practically all the Piedmont lakes appear to offer good fishing possibilities during the next few days.Blue marlin up to 600 pounds, blackfin tuna and dolphin have been boated this week near the Gulf Stream out of Morehead City. And catches of king mackerel have been reported 10-20 miles at sea. Spanish mackerel and blues have arrived in schools along the shoreline, and puppy drum continue to hit in the marshes.
The Piedmont lakes are yielding big catfish, plus good numbers of crappie, largemouth bass and spotted bass. Fishing Forecast | Tom Higgins
The Report
1. Lake Norman: Limits of spotted bass on lures jigged 30 feet deep, with the Davidson Creek Arm producing best. Large mouth bass along the shoreline on artificial worms, crankbaits. Crappie 8-12 feet deep around brush and piers, mainly on minnows. Catfish on cut baits. Stripers in the creeks on live baits.
2. Lake Wylie: Largemouth along the banks on floating artificial worms, crankbaits, spinnerbaits. Crappie on jigs, minnows around brushy cover, boat docks. Bream and shellcrackers are starting to hit crickets and other traditional baits very well.
3. Lakes Badin, Tillery, Blewett Falls: Extremely productive for crappie, mainly on minnows. White perch also are hitting well, especially at Tillery.
4. High Rock Lake: Crappie around brush, docks on minnows. Also on trolled grubs, jigs, sliders. Largemouth on skirted spinnerbaits, pig-and-jig combinations.
5. Lakes Hickory, Rhodhiss: Much improved catches of crappie at Hickory, and continuing good numbers of the fish at Rhodhiss. Scattered stripers up lake at Hickory toward Rhodhiss Dam on live baits.
6. Lake James: Smallmouth bass around points and rocky shoreline on shiners. Walleye off clay banks on crawlers. Catches of bream are picking up.
7. Fontana Lake: Smallmouth are coming off their spawning beds and feeding voraciously along the shoreline and underwater humps. Shiners and small crankbaits are working best, along with the Pop R topwater lure. Anglers fishing crawlers 25 feet down off points are boating limits of walleye.
8. Lake Wateree: Catfish to 40 pounds on cut baits, live baits. Stripers at the lower end of the reservoir on topwater lures, herring, shiners. Scattered largemouth on artificial worms.
9. Lake Hartwell: Large stripers, hybrids up river and in the major creek arms on gizzard shad worked 8-15 feet deep around points. Largemouth along the banks on soft plastic lures. Plentiful crappie in very shallow cover -- 2-8 feet deep -- on jigs and minnows.
10. Lake Jocassee: Trout, some quite large in the 8-pound range, on spoons and other lures trolled from the surface down to 55 feet. Also, trout on drift-fished shiners.
11. Lake Keowee: Excellent for largemouth along the shoreline on artificial worms. The Cane Creek, Crooked Creek, High Creek and Mile Creek areas producing best. Spotted bass on buzz baits, jerk baits and shiners.
12. Lake Murray: Lots of bream and shellcrackers along the shoreline. Largemouth 5-15 feet deep off the banks on artificial worms. Scattered striped bass on live baits.
13. Lake Thurmond: Stripers in the mid-lake area on live baits. Crappie around brush and boat docks on minnows. Largemouth on crankbaits, spinnerbaits.
14. Santee-Cooper Reservoir: Lake Marion: Largemouth up to 10 pounds around shallow structure on soft plastic and topwater lures. Catfish on cut baits in only 2-6 feet of water. Crappie around deep cover and bridge pilings; Lake Moultrie: Largemouth along the shoreline on floating artificial worms and shallow-running crankbaits. Catfish on cut bait. Shellcrackers very shallow on crickets, earthworms.
15. Outer Banks: Oregon Inlet: Yellowfin tuna, gaffer-sized dolphin offshore. Small blues inshore. Tautog, tilefish for bottom fishermen; Hatteras Island: Scattered big red drum and flounder, good-sized whiting in the surf. Ocracoke Island: Large reds, blues, puppy drum in the surf; Portsmouth Island: Trophy-sized red drum, big blues in the surf.
16. Southeastern N.C. Coast: Dolphin, wahoo are showing increasingly offshore. Puppy drum and trout are being caught in the backwaters. Black drum, blues, sheepshead and whiting are hitting at piers.
17. S.C. Coast: Wahoo up to 73 pounds and dolphin to 25 pounds are striking offshore, along with good numbers of blackfin tuna. King mackerel to 34 pounds were caught at Grand Strand piers during the past few days, along with black drum, blues, Spanish mackerel and whiting. Cobia are starting to migrate into the Beaufort/Hilton Head area.
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