Fishing

Don’t Bank on Shallow Bite

It’s so easy, sometimes, to fish the bank. You can see everything you want to throw at; you can make shorter, more accurate casts; and when you catch fish, that’s even better. […]

Fishing

April is hawg huntin’ time

The key to being able to go bass fishing and consistently locate fish is to pay attention to season patterns, and one pattern that is dominant across South Carolina in April is the spawn. […]

Fishing

March is hawg heaven time

I like to call March the “you-pick-it” month.

What I mean by that is, literally, this is a month when you can pick the lures you want to catch bass, and you can have an awesome day in March with almost any of those lures — a Carolina-rigged lizard, a jig and craw, a pig ‘n’ jig, a crankbait or a spinnerbait. […]

Fishing

Dance with a jig for stripers

When I was a kid, my buddies and I got into a habit — we’d go deer hunting in October, November and December, and in January, February and March, we’d go striper fishing. […]