Lake Environment: The Rusty Crayfish

We often talk about invasive species in our posts, most often plants. However, a new invader crustacean is threatening North Carolina and Virginia waters. The Rusty Crayfish, an invasive crayfish, has invaded the Catawba and Broad Rivers and associated water bodies in...

Lake Environment: The GRASS Carp

If I told you that a creature nearly 5 feet long, up to 80 pounds, and capable of eating nearly 150% of it’s body weight A DAY was lurking in Lake Gaston (and now Kerr Lake), you would likely be concerned…. Well, in actuality there IS a creature such as this...

America’s Top 10 Flyfishing States

Source: Forbes As trout season opens around the U.S., a thought experiment on the top 10 flyfishing states in the country, listed in no particular order…The piedmont area [of North Carolina] is dotted with reservoirs (like Kerr Lake) and thousands of farm ponds...

Lake Environment: Winter to-do list

It’s winter and many of you are spending much more time indoors. That warm summer sun certainly seems like a distant memory. Lounge chairs have been stacked, floats deflated and tucked away in the shed, and the busy sounds of summer have been quieted by the...