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May 4, 2026

Topwater baits will often produce all day long — not just during early-morning of late-afternoon hours — on Clarks Hill Lake, and Lesley Childers has no problem keeping a big bait walking on the water for extended periods of time.

Top Heavy

On a summer afternoon 10 years ago, fishing with her husband in one of her first-ever club bass tournaments, Anderson’s Lesley Childers got a wild introduction to the ways of the topwater lure. […]

The buck fawn grows into a button buck, and is recognized by its shorter neck and square head. They have small little nubs on top of their heads that are covered with hair.

The Life of a Fawn

Tommy Kirkland

Spring gives way to warm days as the summer season nears. […]

Lake Hickory isn’t known for producing a lot of huge, slab crappie, and neither is it known for giving up huge numbers of fish, but it’s a good lake to catch some nice fish.

Slab Shooters

Phillip Gentry

The spawn is over and done, and the crowds of perch-jerkers have gone home, so it must be time to get back to crappie fishing at Lake Hickory. […]

Cover: May 2010 (SC)

South Carolina Sportsman

Delicious flounder and crappie are on the menu for anglers this month. […]

Cover: May 2010 (SC) – Inshore

South Carolina Sportsman

Delicious flounder and crappie are on the menu for anglers this month. […]

The author caught this fine speckled trout on a topwater plug cast from his kayak.

When he’s not working at the Great Outdoor Provision Company in Wilmington, Will Huffine can usually be found fishing —from land, pier and boat — but he is especially fond of fishing out of his kayak. […]

Flat-water Flounder Fiesta

Jeff Burleson

Located at the southern tip of the Grand Strand, North Inlet is a sportsman’s paradise, loaded with crabs, small fish, shrimp, and the inshore angler’s trifecta — flounder, redfish, and trout. […]

Signs of Spring

Dan Kibler

Lots of people keep calendars on their desks or somewhere on a wall — maybe held to the side of the refrigerator by a magnet. […]

Spring and fall are the best times to catch a yellowfin tuna off the Outer Banks.

24-Carat

Jerry Dilsaver

One of the great things about Hatteras is the proximity of the fishing grounds to the inlet. […]

Dan Williams shows off one of the many striped bass that pack the Roanoke River in April and May on their spawning run.

Cast and Blast

Jerry Dilsaver

The dew was heavy enough to wet your pantlegs, but there was an upside; it made a quiet sneak through the woods much easier — and quiet was required to get close to a roosted gobbler at daylight. […]