Fishing North Carolina Style

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Comment by Jeffrey D. Abney on March 7, 2012 at 9:38am

You're welcome..I'm looking forward to filling these pages with current results but in the meantime I've added a few things to keep it interesting.....These are sights I see every time I go fishing so I like to share because it gives the reader a better connection in my opinion.....

Comment by Steve Crowder on March 7, 2012 at 9:34am

Thanks Jeff. Truly georgious.

Comment by Jeffrey D. Abney on March 6, 2012 at 7:32pm

We are blessed in North Carolina with beautiful fishing grounds and my favorite is the black water rivers of the Northeast Corner of our state......The entire Albemarle region is a farming belt that is broken up by the sound and the many creeks and rivers that are sprinkled throughout this region.....Most are named after Indian tribes that inhabited this region early on and settled in these regions because of the fertile waterways.... We don't have as many gators as our friends to the south but be advised that gators have been sighted as far north as South Mills, N.C. which is just ten miles from the Virginia state line......I'm thankful for many things but I'm humbled by the great fishing available to us in North Carolina......

Comment by Jeffrey D. Abney on March 6, 2012 at 5:28pm

Spring through September is awesome in Coastal Carolina's brackish waters....Miles and miles of river systems loaded with coves and creeks supply anglers with shelter and the quiet settings that big bluegills look for....Just remember a healthy population of Channel Catsfish will be spawning shallow late summer and the abundant blue crabs will migrate north from the Albemarle sound and pack in to our back waters making for great recreational crabbing....Endless outdoor enjoyment slowed only by the visit of a named tropical system but many years we dodge hurricanes all together....

Comment by Jeffrey D. Abney on March 6, 2012 at 5:03pm

Fall is great fishing for gills in North Carolina also...After the Spring and Summer rush...don't hang up the rods until water temperatures fall below 55 degrees....The month of October can make for some pleasant views and very comfortable fishing after working to beat the heat all Summer.......

Comment by Jeffrey D. Abney on March 4, 2012 at 6:04pm

Thanks again Steve...sometimes you have to use your imagination to figure things out....It worked the last two times I tried it...

Comment by Steve Crowder on March 4, 2012 at 5:59pm

Nice looking pictures Jeffrey. Interesting combination you got going there. Looks like a real bluegill catching lure!

Comment by Jeffrey D. Abney on March 4, 2012 at 1:23pm

I'm not going to dwell on bad weather in North Carolina because so many people are facing the devastation from Friday's tornado outbreak.....We received over two additional inches of rain overnight and through noon today....I had planned to get out on the Pasquotank River today, eager to see what the rising water temperatures would deliver in my seasoned staging areas.....That wasn't meant to be so I met a couple fishing buddies at the local IHOP for a tall stack and morning caffeine as I waited it out...All these guys are retired and will go when Mother Nature cooperates.....Came home and watched some of the highlights from the 2012 Bassmasters Classic held last weekend on the Red River near Shreveport, Louisiana....So the rain finally slowed at noon and I visited the creek I was at Saturday and found it stained a bit more and water temperature was @ 56 degrees....We should stay in the low 50s until later this week when the next warming trend arrives.....Having used the little white maggot successfully yesterday, I decided to up the annie a bit color wise and went with attaching  the 1" chartreuse minnow on the hook shaft and tipping the rig with a live cricket......No weight attached to the line because I wanted a slow fall again because of unstable conditions.....Fished for about two hours and wound up with 14 gills and a small largemouth....The best Surprise today was the fact that I caught a couple solid Coppernose Gills, the first ones of 2012.....I had to show the little largemouth bass to keep our friend Derrick interested...LOL ...Things are improving and this was a difficult weekend for fishing, but in the big scheme of things not bad considering what thousands of people are facing....Maybe some of those folks can look at bluegill fishing soon as a release from the stresses they are facing...

Comment by Jeffrey D. Abney on March 4, 2012 at 7:05am

I stated before that my mom is a twin, thus I always prefer pictures of two...All fishermen have tactics and superstitions and this is just one of mine.....These pairs are all from the month of May last year and all caught in coastal Carolina.....This is when the honeysuckles bloom and the red winged blackbirds are filling the marsh with excitement....Sometimes you must deal with some left over showers and temperatures are approaching the 90 degree mark, but Bluegill are well underway producing the future gills.......

Comment by Jeffrey D. Abney on March 3, 2012 at 11:37am

Got a little break in the weather so I headed down to a creek that's pretty sheltered because the wind was still gusting to 25 mph.....Water temperature was 52 degrees and the creek was stained a little from overnight run off so I adjusted my presentation to suit.....I downsized my hook and added a Berkley maggot to the hook shaft for the white coloring...Threaded a Live Cricket in addition to the maggot and fished a slow fall presentation with no split shot.....Wound up with 16 Gills in which most were hens and 1 Largemouth.....Still no Coppernose gills in this mess......Still releasing all gills right now because I'm more interested in catching right now than eating but that will change soon when business picks up a little more.....I'm just very happy things are getting started earlier this year....I may live to regret scheduling a fishing trip out of town in March....Jury still out on that!

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