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July 1, 2026

Guide Rob Alderman is holding a summer-long kayak tournament to benefit the Heroes on the Waters program.

Kayak event helps vets

Professional kayak angler and guide Rob Alderman of Norfolk, Va., has always been about the military. Alderman, who operates Outer Banks Kayak Fishing, was never a member of the armed services due to a history of sports injuries in his youth, but he is surrounded by relatives who have or are serving. […]

The Anglr Tracker device on Mike Whitty’s rod recorded plenty of details about this largemouth bass catch.

New app logs your trips

Brian Cope

Keeping a fishing log is one of the best ways to become a better angler. The more days we spend on the water, the more often we encounter situations we’ve seen in the past, but realizing you’ve been in a certain situation before doesn’t help you catch more fish, unless you’ve kept a good record over the years. […]

Flounder make great meals in all kinds of dishes, but this taco pasta salad is a new take on a familiar fish.

Add flounder to pasta

Jerry Dilsaver

Welcome to summer. Yep, that’s right. The days are long, and the temperatures are already rising. The weather isn’t the only thing that’s heating up; so is fishing, and one of the coastal favorites is flounder. […]

Hunting season is right around the corner, so it's time to lock up your lease before it's too late.

Time to lock up leases for hunting season

Jeff Burleson

The days for sitting in an elevated perch overlooking a green garden of tasty treats or a highly-traveled bottleneck will soon be a normal afternoon delight for outdoorsmen in the Carolinas. […]

June is a fantastic month to catch largemouth bass across the Carolinas as fish recover from the spawn, move out on dropoffs and ledges and feed again.

June is a bust-out month

David Fritts

June is a month I really look forward to. In most lakes in the Carolinas, you’re going to be able to catch bass a bunch of different ways, because 85 percent of them have finished spawning, moved out and are feeding again. […]

The Cajun Lures Cooyon Croaker is made to have maximum disturbance during the retrieve.

The Cooyon Croaker

Don Shoopman

Zach Dubois, 24, has a highly successful crappie grub on the market and recently introduced the Cooyon Croaker, a plastic frog sure to appeal to bass fishermen wherever bass eat frogs. […]

Lowrance’s latest software update includes a surface clarity filter upgrade that allows the fish arches in the top third of this screen to be seen at the low filter setting. The previous filter technology would have required a high enough level of filtering to eliminate them.

What’s in a software update?

Allan Tarvid

Lowrance’s latest software update reminded me that it has been a while since I mentioned how important updates are to all of us — no matter what brand of electronics we run. […]

Stabilizers that fit between the split limbs of a bow will quiet the bow substantially and cut down on vibration.

Get things stabilized

Sammy Romano

When I first started shooting a compound bow almost 30 years ago, many archers shot without a stabilizer. Bows were generally longer and heavier, and they didn’t generate nearly the torque and power of today’s bows. […]

An angler fishes a North Carolina mountain stream that’s not designated as a trout stream but can still hold plenty of trout.

So much water to fish

Robert Satterwhite

The early Cherokee marked the beginning of the trout fishing season when trout lilies began blooming along mountain streams in early April. […]

Shellcrackers will be in the shallows in early May before moving to their deeper, summer spots by the end of the month.

May is on around Santee

Terry Madewell

The Santee Cooper lakes will show anglers a lot of love this month. Almost every species worthy of piscatorial pursuit is active, and combined with the typically pristine weather of May, it’s a perfect time to not only go fishing, but the catching part is simply sensational. […]