Alligator
Gator Getting
“There’s another one,” guide Jay Iadonisi announced, illuminating the alligator’s red eye 50 yards starboard. […]
Articles by Phillip Gentry
Bass Fishing
Herring, shad make Hartwell a ‘2-story’ fishery
For folks who remember the days before blueback herring became established in Lake Hartwell, striped bass were often forced to choose between invading the shallows to feed on threadfin and gizzard shad or going on diets in the deeper, cooler waters where shad preferred not to tread. […]
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Kayaks for fishing
What makes the perfect fishing kayak? That’s a question debated daily on kayak-fishing forums and web sites. Wilderness Systems, an Easley, South Carolina-based company, has earned its status as one of the most recognized names in paddle sports by listening to what their customers want in a fishing kayak. […]
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Fins to the Left, Fins to the Right
The only thing missing was the lonely ringing of the bell on the buoy marking the entrance to the South Edisto River. […]
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Sizzlin’ Stripers
Summer is here, and the fishing is hot. Everything is hot. The air is hot. The water is hot. Stand on the open deck of a boat at mid-day and pretty soon, you’ll be hot too. […]
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Outer Banks ’Yakking
Matt Landrum get to work and play at the same time. Standing in a parking area at the base of the Mann’s Harbor Bridge, surrounded by vehicles carrying colorful kayaks, Landrum prepared to join a small armada of paddlers heading out on a beautiful morning. […]
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Kiss-ing Triggers
The order of the day was bottom-fishing when Capt. Devin Cage steered The Poacher out of the Oregon Inlet Fishing Center and into the ocean. […]
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Stripers on the Darkside
It was an odd place for a reunion — the former bass pro, the dedicated sponsor, and the newspaper man who often wrote about both of them. […]
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Slab Shooters
The spawn is over and done, and the crowds of perch-jerkers have gone home, so it must be time to get back to crappie fishing at Lake Hickory. […]
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The Wright Stuff
Just after the turn of the 20th century, two brothers from Dayton, Ohio — Orville and Wilbur Wright — converged on the then-obscure coastal town of Kitty Hawk. […]