Thread: Need Info On High Rock Lake

My fishing buddy and I are going to High Rock Lake in May to do some bass fishing. I was advised on several spots to fish since I am fairly new to the lake. I have found all of them but one. An area called the "gap." Can anyone give me an idea of where the spot is?

Thanks

Here is his article:
The Gap

35 37 397 N/80 14 800 W

This is one of High Rock's better-known "community holes" for largemouth bass, and with good reason. It's easy to find and almost as easy to fish.

The "gap" actually refers to the back of a creek channel where it runs under railroad tracks that cross the back of a wide bay. Edwards said the creek winds out to the main river, but the channel is not the drawing card. A set of abandoned railroad tracks, now submerged, spans the bay from north to south - it's the same submerged railroad bed that's marked with buoys just outside the N.C. Wildlife Resources Commission boating-access area at the NC 8 bridge over Abbotts Creek.

"This is part of the old, original railroad," Edwards said. "There's some kind of break where there used to be an old bridge over the creek that goes back into the Gap. It's really just a big, long rock pile.

"It's a great bass place," said Edwards, noting that both David Fritts and Kevin Van Dam fished it extensively when the Bassmaster Classic visited High Rock several times in the 1990s. "You can sit out and cast up on it and retrieve back down the drop, but my favorite way is to get on top of it and throw right down the edge and keep my crankbait in that 12- to 16-foot range."

Edwards said you can fish the old railroad bed with a Carolina rig, but it's the perfect depth to hit with a deep-diving crankbait, which has always been a favorite bait on High Rock.

"It will be hot in June and July," he said. "Some stripers like to get on it early in the morning; it's one of the best striper-schooling places on the lake, because the river sweeps past the mouth of the bay and they can get on it." Hope this helps