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May 1, 2026

A good idea to keep numbers of Spanish mackerel is to release small fish. Live releases are easier when anglers remove all treble hooks from plugs and replace the back treble with a single hook.

Don’t Knock the Rock

Fisher Culbreth found Sheepshead Rock the hard way one May morning two years ago. […]

Bud Haynes lives to catch big crappies at Kerr Lake each spring and he does that by knowing where “trash” piles are located.

Once upon a time, it was a pile of limbs and vines that a guy had cut around the bank of his lakeside lot in Bluestone Creek, one of the many major tributary creeks that feed John H. Kerr (aka Buggs Island) Reservoir. […]

Cover: April 2007 (SC) – Freshwater

South Carolina Sportsman

Lake Wateree is one of several South Carolina water bodies that offer top-notch bass fishing this month. […]

Cover: April 2007 (SC)

South Carolina Sportsman

April’s warm sunshine heats up the water bottoms, and gets flounder in a feeding mood. […]

Wahoos are often one of the offshore gamefish that will hit trolled baits intended for yellowfin tunas.

Kite Bites

Walt Rhodes

James Taylor sang about seeing fire and rain. I don’t know exactly what Taylor saw, but if he was an offshore fisherman, it could have been the scene off the bow of the sportfishing boat I was aboard. […]

Yellow perch congregate at bottom structures, such as submerged aquatic vegetation, weed beds, rock piles, reefs, and along the lee side of land points.

Perched on Top

Richard Bernabe

Yellow perch may not rank high among the hardest fighting fish in the world, nor will they ever be highly regarded for achieving trophy-size status. […]