Fishing North Carolina Style

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Comment by Jeffrey D. Abney on March 10, 2012 at 5:23pm

There was a couple guys catching quite a few small bass on the creek I fished today.....I thought about you.....They never caught anything big though.....Bass have to be 14 inches here so they were throwing quite a few back.....They said they had three keepers when I left.......

Comment by Derrick Bustle on March 10, 2012 at 5:18pm

in the 60's by me but went out and caught about 30 bass today in 3 hours im happy. no big ones.

Comment by Jeffrey D. Abney on March 10, 2012 at 5:16pm

Got out for a little while this afternoon...Kind of chilly and a pretty strong North wind wasn't helping any.......Caught some nice gills including a few nice coppernose......Water temperatures were @ 56 degrees and still stained a bit from recent rains.....Caught the fish near bottom in three to four feet of water.......Had to be patient today...bite was slow but just a few days in the 80s and some mild nights and business will pick up........

Comment by Derrick Bustle on March 9, 2012 at 3:43pm

caught some crappie yesterday on a finesse worm but nothing huge

Comment by Derrick Bustle on March 9, 2012 at 3:41pm

if the weather stays on the same course i think i can catch a few 7+lbers this week..or die trying

Comment by Jeffrey D. Abney on March 9, 2012 at 3:38pm

I agree Derrick....I only saw a couple bass moving this afternoon and the two I caught were small.....We are facing back and forth temperatures right now but that's how March usually is anyway....We're alot closer than we were in December right! 

Comment by Derrick Bustle on March 9, 2012 at 3:36pm

I didnt go out ..the bass are so confused right now. but a good week to come

Comment by Jeffrey D. Abney on March 9, 2012 at 3:22pm

Had a great time this afternoon fellow members but it didn't look good early on with the passing cold front.....High winds and rain hung around all morning so I took my wife to our local hot dog restaurant and had a delicious lunch.....Got to love those crinkle cut fries!
Got home a little after noon and the sun peeked out an the winds dropped off a bit as they transitioned to the north behind the passing front....I loaded up a couple telescopic poles and my crickets and headed for a local creek....Water was down a bit and temperatures were @ 56 degrees as we got near 80 here in the Elizabeth City area yesterday.......Got positioned in an area to fish the grass beds as I have been doing the entire month....I added a picture in which you can see my floats in or near the grass beds....One of the bass I caught hit first and just about took my pole away as I was setting my other rig out.....Then the bluegill took over and the bite was pretty decent for several hours and I wound of with 26 Bluegill total including several more Coppernose which is a good sign for the weeks ahead......All we need is a few days in the eighties and a couple mild nights and the fishing is going to pick up....The fish are staged and ready to go shallow already.....

Comment by Jeffrey D. Abney on March 8, 2012 at 8:05pm

It was late July last year and I was having an amazing Summer for Bluegill with awesome creels while family was in during June and early July...A friend and fellow submariner had been wanting to go with me for quite some time and it had never quite worked out before......We celebrated my wife's birthday on 7/26 and I suggested to Don that we fish on the 27th because of great forecasted weather....He agreed and we took leave from work and made plans for a great July day.....I went down to Bassackwards Bait Shop and my friend Doug hooked me up with some big lively crickets for the morning run....Don and I met up for a Hardees steak biscuit and headed for the launch.....We set out on a beautiful July morning with an 83 heat index at 6:00 a.m........I pulled in the first hole and the big Yeopim River Coppernose delivered.....We started slamming the gills right away and when it was all said and done, Don had experienced what North Carolina has to offer first hand and he has been hooked ever since........The photos in this comment section are all from our memorable trip last Summer....It was brutally hot but so was the Gill action....What a trip it was and it just made me happy to hook yet another angler on what bluegill fishing is all about.....I don't fish bait Don, I fish Big Bluegill and now you know the rest of the story!

Comment by Jeffrey D. Abney on March 8, 2012 at 3:55pm

Nice picture Mark....I was sitting in the shipyard listening to the wind whistling around my building thinking it would be tough out there today but I look forward to having the option....I had a couple deer close to the river's edge a few weeks ago and they pretty much ignored me and went about there business.....Tomorrow looks brutal from a wind stand point and then another cold front....March is definitely up and down in our region.....

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