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May 1, 2026

Since Noland Creek is in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, a basic North Carolina or Tennessee fishing license is valid while fishing inside the park’s boundaries. Special trout-fishing licenses aren’t needed.

High-Country Heaven

Noland Creek in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park in Swain County is typical of hundreds of prime trout streams that crisscross the park — remote, scenic and full of trout. […]

Wreckfish normally live in 300 to 2000 feet of water along walls, caves or shipwrecks where the only way to fish them commercially is with electric or hydraulic deep hooks and lines with a pound or more of weight.

Deeper Shades of Pale

Bob Goldstein

A few years ago, Dink Shull, skipper of the Storm Petrel out of Wanchese, went deep-drop fishing for blueline tilefish at the edge of the Continental Shelf. […]

Bass often linger inside grass beds formed by parrotfeather at Lake Hickory’s open water areas.

Mid-Summer’s Dream

Tim Mead

Jimmy Campbell moved slowly away from Wittenberg Landing near the mid-point of Lake Hickory. Weather reports predicted a hot summer day, one in a string of such days. […]

Although big flounder are caught each year at other areas, the most consistently-producing spots are southeastern coastal inshore and offshore areas.

Wrecked on Flounder

Craig Holt

Like hard-core party-goers who make a night of it by jumping from bar to bar, North Carolina saltwater anglers have options when it comes to getting their fill of big flounders each summer. […]

June and July are the prime “feeding up” months for largemouths at Kerr Lake because its bass population lags behind other lakes relative to the spawning season.

If anyone knows more about catching bass at John H. Kerr Reservoir (Buggs Island) Lake than David Fritts of Lexington or Joel Richardson of Kernersville, they’re doing a good job of keeping it a secret. […]

The best way to find structures that hold red drum is to scout for potential areas during a dead-low lunar tide.

Plan R for Redfish

Mike Marsh

Capt. Jot Owens surveyed the water and sky as clouds moving from the northwest skidded overhead. […]

Cover: July 2007 (SC) – Offshore

South Carolina Sportsman

No South Carolina angler is very far from Charleston’s highly aggressive redfish stocks. […]

Cover: July 2007 (SC)

South Carolina Sportsman

Learn this technique to put plenty crappie in the boat this month. […]

Many South Carolina anglers bow out of offshore action when the hot weather really sets in, but they’re missing some of the best billfish action of the year when sailfish arrive in good numbers.

Taking a Summer Sail

Walt Rhodes

Nipping at the dangling teaser, the dolphin resembled a puppy chasing after someone’s coattail. […]

A colorful Chauga River rainbow trout earns its release back into the river, which is fairly wide in most places and offers good, open-water casting for fly fishermen.

Catching Chauga trout is a wild time

Richard Bernabe

The Chauga River is nestled in the mountains of northwestern South Carolina. Long overlooked by trout fishermen in favor of its more famous and bigger brother, the Chattooga, the Chauga is quietly garnering a local reputation as top destination for feisty rainbow and trophy brown trout. […]