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August 27, 2026

Madison’s Glynn Sharon took big-fish honors at the April 25 Carolina Crappie Team Tournament on High Rock Lake with this 1.84-pound slab.

Home-cooking is fine with Young

Tony Garitta

Doug Young, a veteran fisherman from Salisbury, won the May 16 Bassmaster Weekend Series event at High Rock Lake. […]

Remember Loran? You may see a new, improved version on the horizon

Jerry Dilsaver

Do you remember Loran? I’m surprised how many dedicated fishermen don’t, but you might want to take a few minutes and learn a little about the new version. […]

Wilson Creek’s headwaters are on Grandfather Mountain; it runs dozens of miles to its confluence with Johns River in Burke Co.

Addition of section of Wilson Creek is big bonus for delayed-harvest waters

Robert Satterwhite

The acquisition of a section of Wilson Creek in Caldwell County is a double bonus for trout fishers. […]

Making sure the shooting lanes around your stand are clear of vegetation and other obstructions might result in a trophy buck you would have otherwise missed.

It’s time to prepare those shooting lanes

Jeff Burleson

With deer season just around the corner, July is the prime time to prepare shooting lanes and remove problem trees around stand sites. […]

Fishermen need to keep an eye on approaching weather systems or risk a drenching — maybe evn worse.

Multi-tasking: be a weather-watcher as well as a serious fisherman

Jeff Dennis

Summer weather patterns have set in, and afternoon thunderstorms are the norm for July and August. […]

Mark Bollenburg’s efforts to keep alive a 108-pound catfish he caught in early April in the Tailrace Canal below Lake Moultrie included taking it to the hatchery in St. Stephens for a swim in the fish tanks before it was moved to Bass Pro Shops aquarium i

This big one didn’t get away

Terry Madewell

There’s no doubt that catfishing is on the minds of many Santee Cooper fishermen during the summer. […]

Big bass, which are fairly sluggish and feed very little during the daylight hours in summer months, are much easier to catch after dark — if fishermen know how to approach night-time fishing.

Night-time is the right time to stalk summertime bass

Davy Hite

There are a ton of reasons why you ought to try fishing at night during the summer. […]

Big bass like this one propelled Mark Hutson of Monks Corner to a Stren Series tournament win on Santee Cooper that was worth more than $20,000.

Hutson walks away with big payday in Stren Santee Cooper

Pat Robertson

Mark Hutson of Moncks Corner caught four bass weighing 15 pounds, seven ounces, to win the May 1 Stren Series Southeast tournament on Santee Cooper with a 3-day total of 13 bass weighing 49 pounds, 13 ounces. […]

Backlashes

Government officials ignore fish and game

Craig Holt

I think the one aspect of representative government that upsets citizen voters the most is we elect politicians to represent us wisely — hey, sometimes folks want laws passed that aren’t good ideas, and our politicians must make the final call — but too often they ignore us when we’re in the right because we ain’t got the cash to change their minds. […]