Evening folks, some quick questions for you NC folks on some places / lakes to stay for the winter. Wife and I are about to be full time teleworking due to the covid and we are from Pennsylvania and thinking for next year we are going to rent a apartment/condo somewhere in the NC area, some place where the lakes do not freeze for the winter and I can fish from November till April. We have been looking in the Jordan Lake area and wow, what a sticker shock we had when the closest places to the lake were right around $1800 a month to rent.

I was thinking maybe this is so expensive because of it being so close to a major metropolitan area and looking to see if any of you folks have some suggestions on a few lakes, good for crappie, that are maybe a little bit further from the metropolitan areas? We are coming from the Harrisburg PA area and for us to get to Jordan it would take around 7-8 hours drive. We wanted to stay around that drive time from home in case for some reason we had to drive back due to work.

Thanks for your time, it is greatly appreciated.