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Mtn Island is one of the toughest lakes around to catch fish. Unless you are willing to make the run up river to fish behind the dam, I would recommend just about any other lake around. Not much...

I think the stripers stay up in the river on Wateree this time of year. I haven't fished it in years though.

I believe I would stick to the lower end if I were you. The Catawba looked pretty muddy when I went over it today.

I fished it too. Prefished it multiple times with no luck. That lake is full of bait but no fish. I reached out to NC Wildlife to complain about how pitiful NC striper fishing is when compared to...

I have been there 4 times in the last month looking for stripers. Havent been able to catch one yet. It is about the muddiest lake I have ever fished.

It has stayed muddy longer than I would have ever expected. The rain today will prob mud it up for the next month.

Fished High Rock yesterday. The main body of water was a muddy mess. For striper fishing, I thought it was not fishable. Ive been 3 times this fall and it looked bad every time.

As someone...

Please tell me the whole lake doesn't look like that.

I pull crankbaits from February till mid June. Mainly fish Wylie where there are only black crappie. They are great for targeting big fish. I don't catch as many small ones as the long liners, but...

Does anybody longline on Lake Norman? I tried trolling it last year and didn't have good results.

Looks like a prop got him.

Yes, you can fish them with leadcore or on downriggers. They don't go too deep without some weight. You can use umbrella rigs instead of Alabama rigs if you don't want to use leadcore. The umbrella...

Color is most important. Speed also. Then depth. Get those things right and you will catch fish.

I'll run Alabama rigs with swimbaits at 2.0-2.4 on leadcore. Or I'll run bucktail jigs with snakewoms on 25# mono at 2.7 on weighted 6 arm umbrella rigs. I never caught any much outside this range....

Is June Creek access deep enough to use?

What kind of baits are those? Don't think I have seen them before.

Thanks for the update!

How muddy is high rock since the last rain?

I troll cranks in Wylie all the time. 1.3-1.5 works for me. Any faster slower doesn't seem to do as well. Bandit 300's. I usually stay away from pink this time of year as the catfish love that...

I never saw any results posted from the hybrid tournament on Norman a couple weeks ago. Does anyone know how it went?

Thanks for the responses. I'm a troller, so I'll just have to figure out how to deal with that debris. Pine needles are the worst.

Thinking about going this weekend. Does anybody know whether the water is muddy?

I pull cranks all the time on Wylie. The catfish are real pests. Used to pull 6 pound test but had to switch to braid with 10 pound leaders to keep the cats from breaking off with my plugs. I have...