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“He’s winning or placing high in most of the tournaments at Harris,” Thomas said. Hooks is working on a graduate degree in lunker hunting at Harris, and he’s caught the eye of Thomas - and there’s no better authority on Harris bass than Thomas. I’d walk (into class) and say, ‘Well, I’m going fishing for two weeks.’ I told everyone I graduated in Bass Fishing 101.” “They also had to let us make up tests and turn in homework later. “It was great being in the BassPack, because we were an official, school-sponsored group, so the teachers had to give us time off for tournaments,” he said. State - where he earned a degree in Fisheries/Wildlife and Conservation Biology, Hooks spent five years as a member of the BassPack fishing team, finishing sixth in the 2012 national collegiate championship. Long-time guide and pro fisherman Jeff Thomas of Broadway calls Hooks “the best tournament bass fisherman at Harris right now.”īarely wet behind the ears, Hooks, 25, already has a list of fishing accomplishments much older anglers would be proud to claim. Josh Hooks of New Hill, which is almost literally in the shadow of the Harris nuclear plant’s cooling tower, rarely zeros on the lake because he’s so often a hero. But a lot of anglers come away from a day at the lake wondering, “Laude, how cum I didn’t catch one?” If bass can become educated about lures, Harris’s chubs should belong to the magna cum laude fish club. However, as one can imagine, the little Y-shaped impoundment within a few crankbait casts of Raleigh gets hammered. What makes Harris so much fun to fish, especially in May, is that it appears to have perhaps three times the number of largemouths as Falls and Jordan and only God knows how many more magnum-sized bass.Īnd in May, these fish are as hungry as a pack of wolves, so if you want to load up on lunkers this month, Harris is the place to be. Even though the spawn is largely over, Harris bass still tend to be chubs.Īsk a Triangle-area bass fisherman what North Carolina lake he’d fish if he had one day on earth to throw a Texas-rigged worm, and nine of 10 probably would choose the smallest major impoundment within driving distance of Raleigh.Īt 4,100 acres, Shearon Harris Lake, a Duke Energy impoundment is one-third the size of nearby Falls of the Neuse and Jordan lakes. Josh Hooks puts a big Shearon Harris bass into his boat.
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