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May 4, 2026

Earn Your Stripes

The bad news about September on Clarks Hill is that the water is warm — borderline hot — which makes tough customers out of cool-loving striped bass. […]

A good boat driver can keep the person throwing the cast net in position to make perfect casts to the spot where bait balls were dropped in front of marking pole.

Secrets to Shrimping Success

Terry Madewell

South Carolina sportsmen have a penchant for loving “Opening Day,” and during the fall, there are many such opportunities in the Palmetto State. […]

Guide Jay Iadonisi (right) and Scott Emery secure a 10-foot alligator after it was harvested. Iadonisi is part of a “cottage industry” of guides and meat processors that has been spawned by the state’s open season.

Gator Getting

Phillip Gentry

“There’s another one,” guide Jay Iadonisi announced, illuminating the alligator’s red eye 50 yards starboard. […]

Not every hunter has access to private land. With development encroaching on wilderness at an alarming rate, there’s less acreage out there available for the hunter who doesn’t have the right connections. […]

During the late summer and early fall, thunderstorms with high winds can cause whitetails to take to the woods seeking out leaf snags blown to the ground. Usually there are premature clusters of acorns on the leafy debris.

Deer Dynamics: Hard Mast

Tommy Kirkland

A white-tailed buck leaves his bedding site in a stand of small pines. Instead of heading to the clover plot, he scales up a small ridge to seek out what is beneath the trees. […]

Late-summer or early-fall bluefish can weigh anywhere from one to five or six pounds.

Singing the Blues

Mike Marsh

David Franklin of Carolina Beach was heading out of Masonboro Inlet for an evening of fishing for speckled trout, red drum, flounder — or anything else that would bite. […]

Mountain Island Lake has a healthy population of largemouth bass, and it provides fishermen with a decent chance to do battle with an occasional trophy fish like this one.

A Star ‘Role Player’

Paul Rose

Many great teams have a superstar or two who account for 90 percent of the attention, popularity and identity. […]

Cover: August 2010 (SC)

South Carolina Sportsman

Deer season opens this month in the Lowcountry, giving hunters the opportunity to take a nice buck in velvet. […]

Fins to the Left, Fins to the Right

Phillip Gentry

The only thing missing was the lonely ringing of the bell on the buoy marking the entrance to the South Edisto River. […]

Largemouth bass are a species that the SCDNR manages for on almost all of its smaller lakes. Along with bluegill, shellcrackers and channel catfish, they rank high on fishermen’s wish lists.

Public Lakes = Summer Fun

Jeff Samsel

Big things really do come in small packages — sometimes. Any fisherman who doubts that needs only to look at the S.C. Department of Natural Resources’ “State Managed Lakes” program. […]