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August 26, 2026

Keeping a logbook of fishing adventures will help anglers increase their success ratio by noting conditions and times as they relate to catches.

Keep and learn from log books

Before Christmas, I was talking to a friend, Jamie McCallum of Dillon, about an upcoming coastal striper fishing trip for January or February. […]

Many lures will catch largemouth bass during the spring, including floating worms.

April is hawg huntin’ time

Davy Hite

The key to being able to go bass fishing and consistently locate fish is to pay attention to season patterns, and one pattern that is dominant across South Carolina in April is the spawn. […]

It’s important for an angler to shorten the fighting time with a fish he knows he’s going to release.

Please release me, let me go

Jerry Dilsaver

I’m all about releasing undersize, oversize or fish not intended for the dinner table. […]

Largemouth bass will hit just about any type of lure during March, but most fish will orient themselves near wood or rock structure at big impoundments — and warmer water.

Bass, anglers get Marching orders

David Fritts

March is a great month to bass fish, and it’s not just because I’ve been stuck inside for a couple of months or because I’m getting tired of bundling up like an Eskimo to get out on the water. […]

Backlashes

Sunday hunting in the living room

Craig Holt

The 10,000-pound elephant has sat down in the living room of N.C. sportsmen and the N.C. Wildlife Resources Commission. […]

Kacie Michael of Welcome (left) and Thomas Fritts of Lexington, son of fishing pro David Fritts, qualified for the N.C. CastingKids Championship to at Bass Pro Shops in Concord.

Coble earns Classic spot at Florida

Tony Garitta

Jeff Coble of Manson earned the final spot in the 2006 CITGO Bassmaster Classic, Feb. 24-26, at Lake Tohopekaliga, Fla., by winning the Jan. 19-21 ESPN Outdoors Bassmasters Series Championship. […]

This brown trout is typical of the large specimens anglers can encounter at Swain County’s Deep Creek.

Great streams of western N.C.

Robert Satterwhite

North Carolina has approximately 4,000 miles of trout waters spread across 25 western counties, and during 40 years of fishing, I’ve fished at least two-thirds of those streams. […]

All anyone needs to make a working turkey blind is a square piece of camouflage cloth with three “casings” (pockets sewn in) and four 3-foot-long wooden dowels, sharpened on one end to stick in the ground.

Don’t let price blind you

Dan Kibler

About 30 years ago, my father hauled me out of bed on Christmas morning for a plane ride to south Texas to duck hunt with an uncle who was working for NASA. […]

Taking time to teach a youngster about fishing is an investment in preserving for future generations the natural resources we enjoy today.

Can you see fishing’s future?

Richard Bernabe

The seeds for a lifetime of fishing are sown at an early age.

In fact, 90 percent of adult freshwater anglers started at age 12 or younger. 96 percent started before the age of 18. Only 4 percent of adult anglers actually picked up the sport as adults. […]

No month matches March because that’s when the chance to stick a monster largemouth is tops at South Carolina lakes.

March is hawg heaven time

Davy Hite

I like to call March the “you-pick-it” month.

What I mean by that is, literally, this is a month when you can pick the lures you want to catch bass, and you can have an awesome day in March with almost any of those lures — a Carolina-rigged lizard, a jig and craw, a pig ‘n’ jig, a crankbait or a spinnerbait. […]