The best month to catch bass
May 2008
If there’s a month on the calendar that every bass fisherman should have circled, it’s May.
Why? Largemouths are everywhere.
Bass fishing is pedal-to-metal
April 2008
I like to call April the “plastic month.” It’s also the month when you really have to put the pedal to the metal.
What does that mean? Well, April actually is a tough month for me because I’m happier when fish are in deeper water, and during April, they’re as shallow as they’ll be all year.
I’d love to focus on something else — maybe how to rig your new boat or how to get your tackle ready for the season — but I just can’t. That’s because bass fishing in North Carolina is just too good in March. It’s absolutely the best month of the year if you’re looking to catch the biggest bass of your life.
Use a s-l-o-w approach this month
February 2008
Describing the kind of bass fishing at most North Carolina lakes during February is fairly easy and can be done with one word — slow.
First electronics rule: Do no harm
February 2008
Every now and then, I’ll hear someone at a tackle shop or out at a launch ramp give advice on caring for electronics that stands my hair on end. The most frequent category of advice is how to clean LCD screens or, more accurately, the protective lenses that cover them.
Three ways to handle cold months
January 2008
January is a tough month for fishing in North Carolina. It’s really winter now, and January and February are the two coldest months of the year.
Try stripers, crappie this winter
December 2007
December is a great month to do a lot of things, not the least of them being hunting deer, organizing your tackle and cleaning up your boat.
But I have to admit December always has been a month when I could just sit back for two or three days and fish for fun. And for me, that’s fishing for stripers and crappie.
Low water levels have high side
November 2007
I love to go deer hunting in November, and the way our lakes are drying up across North Carolina, that may be my only option.
The weather’s usually more bearable and bass are biting a lot better. It’s probably my second favorite month of the year to fish — after June — and it’s a month when I can count on being able to fish the way I like with a crankbait.
September a Jekyll-Hyde month
September 2007
The page on my calendar for September has only 30 days, but I’d swear sometimes it feels like there should be two months there.
Backlashes 
Lunker Lines 
