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June 29, 2026

Davy Hite uses a Mop jig when he locates bass feeding on spawning blueback herring.

Time for a herring high

We have had a cold winter and a very up-and-down spring, but there’s one thing that South Carolina bass fishermen can count on this month: May is the month of the herring bite. […]

The Elite 8 has all the fish-catching qualities of the Rogue, but it’s designed to get deep quick.

Smithwick Elite 8 Suspending Rogue

Don Shoopman

It wasn’t too long ago that the Elite 8, the eight best college basketball teams in the country playing in the NCAA’s “Big Dance,” were thrilling fans and television audiences in a hopeful waltz to the Final Four and, ultimately, to the title game at the center of every bracket in the U.S. […]

There are so many choices in boat batteries — which one is right for you?

Marine batteries 101

Allan Tarvid

Learning that all batteries are not created equal can be an expensive lesson. Power your trolling motor with batteries designed to start your engine and they will last for weeks rather than years. […]

Delayed-harvest sections of the Tuckasegee River offers fly anglers some great May opportunities.

Don’t miss May’s offering

Robert Satterwhite

May is an ideal time to be on a mountain trout stream. Wildflowers are in bloom, dogwoods and rhododendron are flowering and a multitude of mayfly, caddis and stonefly hatches are coming off — more hatches than any other time of the season. […]

Guide Chris Orvin said the Santee Cooper lakes and the Santee and Cooper rivers are blue catfish hotspots this month.

If it swims, it’s biting

Terry Madewell

There are times when almost anything worth catching is biting, and May is one of those months at Santee Cooper. […]

Lowell Brannan took a 30-minute saltwater sleigh ride before boating and releasing this blacktip shark near Beaufort.

The open ocean beckons

Phillip Gentry

As a student in high school, Ernest Hemingway’s The Old Man and The Sea was required reading. Without sounding unappreciative of classic literature, who wouldn’t love to be pulled around in a small boat by a massive blue marlin? […]

This flounder was fooled by the spinning of a weedless spoon designed for inshore casting.

Spoon feed inshore fish

Jerry Dilsaver

I don’t remember exactly when I became such a big fan of using spoons for inshore and nearshore fishing, but it was a good day and a great choice. […]