![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Now living in Lenior, Correll hasn’t forgotten how to catch the big, yellow catfish at Tuckertown. “I had four that day that weighed 171 pounds total. “The first flathead I caught here was a 58-pounder,” said Correll, who has returned to North Carolina after a handful of years working at the Bass Pro Shops in Fort Myers, Fla. Now it’s just pure pleasure.įor a decade or so, Correll guided fishermen on Lake James, Lake Hickory and Lake Rhodhiss for striped bass, smallmouth bass and walleye, but when he wanted to fish for fun, he packed up the pontoon boat and headed somewhere to catch big whiskered fish.īack before the turn of the century, Correll made his first trip to Tuckertown Lake, drawn by stories about the narrow, little Yadkin River system reservoir being North Carolina’s No. His biggest from the Yadkin River reservoir weighed 58.įor years, a trip to Tuckertown Lake was a busman’s holiday for Stanley Correll. Former guide Stanley Correll gets excited about Tuckertown Lake flathead catfish, even when they’re only 25-pounders like this one. ![]()
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