Last weekend produced perhaps the best largemouth bass action in years on Lake Norman. Anglers in two major tournaments caught limits of five bass each.
Elsewhere, bluefin tuna off Oregon Inlet and Hatteras Village and crappie on the Piedmont lakes are providing lots of enjoyment.
Several parties boated multiple bluefin during the past few days, keeping the limit of one and releasing the rest.
Lake Norman: Largemouth along the banks and on shoals, hitting mainly soft plastic lures. Crappie around brush and docks, biting minnows fished 5 feet deep.
Lake Wylie: Crappie around docks and shoreline cover on jigs and minnows. Largemouth bass, moving to the banks to spawn, on shallow-running crankbaits, jigs and spinnerbaits. White perch in the upper sections of major feeder creeks.
Mountain Island Lake: Good catches of crappie and catfish, along with improving numbers of largemouth.Union County Lakes: Largemouth on a variety of lures at Lee, Monroe and Twitty, plus catfish on chicken livers. Crappie at Cane Creek Park.
High Rock, Tuckertown, Badin, Tillery and Blewett Falls: Good for crappie on jigs and minnows as the fish move shallower. Improving for largemouth on spinnerbaits, soft plastic lures.
Lakes Hickory, Rhodhiss: Fair for crappie on minnows.
Fontana Lake: Good to excellent for smallmouth and spotted bass along the shoreline on jerk baits and shiners. Walleye, returning downlake after spawning in the Little Tennessee River, on No.5 Shad Rap lures worked in running water well up the creek arms.
Lake Wateree: Excellent for crappie, which are very shallow back in the creeks and around docks. Improving for largemouth in shoreline cover on crankbaits, rattling lures, spinnerbaits and soft plastics. Catfish in the creek arms on crappie heads, gizzard shad and cut white perch.
Lake Murray: Excellent for striped bass. Stripers up to 38 pounds have been caught in recent days, mainly on cut baits. Largemouth on artificial worms. Shellcrackers 2-10 feet deep on points on earthworms.
Santee Cooper Lakes: Very good for largemouth around shallow cover on crankbaits, soft plastics. Stripers, including some keepers measuring 26 or more inches, on the flats on cut and live herring. American shad in the tailrace canal at Pinopolis Dam near Moncks Corner on twister-tail grubs.
Lake Thurmond: Stripers, hybrids during the evening near the dam on cut baits. Pulling live herring behind weighted planer boards also is producing. Largemouth, moving to the shoreline to spawn, on jigs, soft plastics and spinnerbaits.
Lake Hartwell: Stripers, hybrids on gizzard shad and herring. Large blue catfish around the points on cut baits. Crappie 4-10 feet deep around sunken trees.
Lake Jocassee: Trout in the creek arms on live shiners and trolled Sutton 31 spoons.
Outer Banks: Oregon Inlet - Bigeye and scattered yellowfin tuna in addition to the bluefin. Hatteras Island - Toadfish in the surf at Ramp 45. Blues, gray trout in the shallows at Hatteras Inlet.
Ocracoke Island - Small blues, puppy drum in the surf at the south point. Morehead City area - Bluefin, yellowfin and wahoo offshore at Big Rock and the Swansboro Hole. Blues, whiting in the surf and at piers. Reds in the marshes.
Southeastern N.C. Coast: Blues, whiting at piers. Reds and scattered trout in the backwaters.
S.C. Coast: Grand Strand area - Black drum at the Murrells Inlet jetties. Scattered spottails in the creeks. Charleston area - Black drum and sheepshead at the near-shore artificial reefs, around bridge pilings and jetties. Spottails around docks and rock piles on live baits and a variety of lures. Improving for trout, mainly on soft plastics. Beaufort area - Spottails on the flats on a variety of lures, including flies.
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