Anglers and other visitors at Falls Lake in Wake County reported seeing hundreds of dead or dying fish floating in the water or decaying on the shores Monday.

The striped bass population in the Roanoke River Management Area is not recovering, despite state-imposed harvest reductions in years past, state Wildlife Resources Commission officials say.

A fisherman made a “once in a lifetime” catch — to the delight of a North Carolina charter boat captain. “I have tried many years to find a fish of a lifetime and yesterday it happened ...