Charlotte area spotted bass and striper action

Freshwater fishing has actually heated up about the Charlotte location with the rise in local water temperatures prompting largemouth and spotted bass, striped bass, crappie, and the numerous panfish to become extremely lively.

The largemouth and spotted bass bite at Lake Norman has been strong. Bass are prowling the shallows around any shoreline structure—rocks, logs, docks, etc—that is keeping modest fish. They are striking aggressively, with a quite powerful bit in the early morning and ahead of sunset.

Spotted bass are busting the prime of the drinking water and can be caught on topwater plugs, which is a great deal of fun. They will smash brightly colored topwater lures near any variety of cover or shoreline.

Right here is Thai Lor with a three lb spotted bass he caught yesterday on Lake Norman employing a topwater plug:

The other massive bite is the striped bass on Lake Norman. I was able to get into some of that motion last night. The stripers are running up into the hotholes and can be taken by fluke lures on jig heads or by bloodworms fished on the bottom.

Here are the stripers I caught very last evening, just right after sunset:

Crappie in the region also hitting in the shallows of the lakes and ponds, and they can be caught on live minnows or modest jigs all around shoreline structure now. The bream and yellow perch are going shallow also, so it’s a excellent time to be a shore-bound fisherman as an early spring has arrive this fishing time.

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