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June 26, 2026

The sun sets on Santee Cooper striper fishing on June 1, but May is an excellent month to catch some quality fish as Santee Cooper anglers like Kevin Davis enjoy a tremendous resurgence in numbers and sizes of stripers.

Santee’s May action is on fire

If the term “wide-open fishing” is ever correctly used, it would be appropriate at Santee Cooper during the month of May. […]

An Ilander lure fished with a ballyhoo is a popular set-up to fish just behind a teaser.

Teaser tactics tempt bluewater battlers

Jeff Dennis

Teaser talk can be very serious at Atlantic Game and Tackle in Mount Pleasant, because literally everybody who goes offshore fishing has one. […]

The Saluda River may not be a trophy bass fishery, but it's a light-tackle paradise. Catches of 50 to 60 fish per day are common.

Set sail on the Saluda’s ‘Kayak Corridor’

Phillip Gentry

On May 8, 2009, the 13.55-mile Greenville Hospital System Swamp Rabbit Tram Trail was opened for business. […]

Hampton Angerson and Harrison Bramlett of Anderson’s T.L. Hanna High School won the TBF state high-school bass-fishing championship on Lake Keowee.

T.L. Hanna wins S.C. prep crown

Glenn Corley

T. L. Hanna High School of Anderson won the inaugural Student Angler Federation South Carolina High School Fishing Championship at Lake Keowee on March 26. […]

Increase your casting distance with these tips

Jerry Dilsaver

No matter what species you’re fishing for, or what platform you’re casting from, you’ll catch more fish if you increase your casting distance. […]

Mayfly hatches through the month of April make for some of the best fly-fishing for trout in North Carolina’s mountain streams.

April is mayfly time on trout streams

Robert Satterwhite

April is truly the trout fisher’s month. The weather is perfect for fishing, wildflowers are in bloom and, best of all, mayfly hatches are emerging. […]

Chris Brown and David Wright of Lexington won the Feb. 12 Yadkin Team Tournament on High Rock Lake.

VanDam makes it four Classic titles

Tony Garitta

Michigan’s Kevin VanDam won his fourth Bassmaster Classic in mid-February on the Louisiana Delta with a record-breaking, 3-day, haul of 69 pounds, 11 ounces to tie Rick Clunn for the most Classic championships with four. […]

Clover is a protein-rich food-plot filler with a tremendous upside in the spring for does nursing fawns, bucks growing antlers and tender forage for turkey poults.

It’s time to refresh clover patches

Jeff Burleson

Food plots have critical periods, with some parts of the year more important than others. In the spring, herbaceous and woody plants end their dormancy and begin competing for available nutrients, sunlight and space. […]

Backlashes

MFC decisions confirm pro-commercial stance

Craig Holt

The N.C. Marine Fisheries Commission is completely broken, always has been broken, and has been willingly corrupted and co-opted by the influence of a small but powerful group of special interests. […]

Small redfish and trout are a perfect way to kick off the spring fishing season.

Start the spring small, and the big fish will come

Jeff Dennis

What’s most important about fishing during the spring is to take what the water gives you in terms of fish, release the small ones and work your way up to bigger fish. […]