Sight-Fishing for Largemouth Bass: What to Expect on a Spring Trip
Pre-spawn, spawn, post-spawn, bluegill beds: what each stage looks like from the bank, and what to throw.

Notes from the water
Longer pieces than a caption allows: what the fish tend to be doing, month by month, and how I fish for them, from the small water around Greenville to the smallmouth rivers of Western North Carolina.
Rivers and regions get named here. The spots do not.
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Pre-spawn, spawn, post-spawn, bluegill beds: what each stage looks like from the bank, and what to throw.
Big redbreast, largemouth, a few big bass, and public access all along the Swamp Rabbit Trail.
The overlap of heavy feeding and tight wintering water is what puts the biggest smallmouth of the year in reach.
Guided through Mt. Yonder Fly Fishing
Trips book through Mt. Yonder, and their checkout cannot pick a guide. The sure way to get me is the phone.
864.816.0506. Choose the walk and wade trip, then put Taylor and the trip name in the order note.
Not ready to book? One short email a month on where the fish tend to be in the Upstate. About a three minute read. Get The Water Report.