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June 25, 2026

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. […]

Trout fishermen enjoy a stretch of the Tuckasegee River managed under delayed-harvest regulations.

Tuckasegee River is an underrated gem

Robert Satterwhite

It’s an early weekday evening, and I’m on my way home from work, driving along North River Rd. between Webster and Dillsboro in Jackson County. […]

GPS units normally found on automobiles have applications on boats, also, with just a little ingenuity.

One if by land — and one if by sea, too

Jerry Dilsaver

I always thought that as boaters, we were generally a little more savvy about GPS navigational units, but the recent onslaught of optional equipment and standalone automotive GPS units has the general public using them for many trips longer than to the neighborhood grocery store. […]

Applying herbicide to food plots will eliminate competition from aggressive weeds when desired plants have taken root and are just beginning to thrive.

Perform CPR on your food plots

Jeff Burleson

June unravels the last few layers of spring, marked by warm, moist nights and longer days. […]

New technology in marine electronics has shortened the learning curve for many fishermen. Advanced units can do a tremendous amount of “homework” that used to take fishermen hours upon hours.

Electronics are turning lakes into video fishing arcades

Davy Hite

I don’t want to make any of the younger pros who are fishing the bass tournament trails mad, but I realized a while back that the learning curve is much shorter nowadays, making it much easier to cash in on one’s fishing ability without necessarily having to put in your time. […]

Kim Henderson and Tim Farris won the Cabela’s King Kat Tournament on Santee Cooper in mid-March with a catch of more than 120 pounds.

April is high-to-low month for BASS pro Casey Ashley

Pat Robertson

Casey Ashley of Donalds went from the high of finishing second in the BASS Elite Series tournament on Alabama’s Wheeler Lake April 5 to the low of finishing far down in the field three weeks later at Virginia’s Smith Mountain Lake, where he had notched his first BASS win in 2007. […]