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June 26, 2026

Applying lime and/or fertilizer will give your food plots a leg up on reaching their maximum growth and production.

Food-plot success is hard work

Jeff Burleson

Typically, wildlife move back and forth to the best and most-available emerging food sources throughout the year. […]

Guide Pete Pritchard said crappie will be around sunken brush or logs in fairly deep water this month.

Fall: Opportunities, decisions abound

Terry Madewell

September offers plenty of action around the Santee Cooper lakes, and it’s not all about fishing. […]

One problem with September bass is that they’re often suspended, but if you find them relating to cover, a spinnerbait might draw a reaction bite.

September won’t give up too much

Davy Hite

Bass fishermen make it through the summer, through the 85-degree surface temperatures and 95-degree, breezeless days, just waiting for the fall to arrive. […]

Jeff Woods of Waterloo won the ABA Division 96 tournament on Clarks Hill and caught the biggest fish of the day, this 6.02-pound bass.

Woods edges Anderson in ABA

Glenn Corley

Jeff Woods of Waterloo won the first American Bass Anglers Division 96 tournament of the season on Clarks Hill Lake in mid-July, edging Phillip Anderson of Saluda by less than an ounce. […]

A special lure filled with glow sticks from Night Fighters Lures is deployed at dusk for swordfish.

Spend the night with a swordfish

Jeff Dennis

Not everyone wants to spend the night on the ocean fishing for swordfish. It is a discipline that requires special tackle, glow-in-the-dark lures and a confident captain. […]

Dielectric grease helps keep plug and socket contacts free of corrosion.

Plug and play beats plug and pray

Allan Tarvid

Bad connections can cause your electronics to do things that are science-fiction strange. […]

Fishermen have been using some of the same flies to catch trout in North Carolina streams for hundreds of years.

Traditional flies will still catch trout

Robert Satterwhite

Long before the first settlers arrived in Western North Carolina mountains, and long before “gentlemen” fly fishers discovered the fine trout waters of the Southern Appalachians, the Cherokee were using flies to catch trout, not for sport, but for food. […]