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April 29, 2026

You can choose your poison for inshore fishing for red drum or specks, whether it’s a Zara Spook, a Ghost minnow, Excalibur’s Shallow Runner, a paddle-tail or minnow-type grub.

The Great Bait Debate

John E. Phillips

Artificials or live baits:

Which catches the biggest or the most redfish and speckled trout?

The answer may surprise you. […]

The South Carolina Department of Natural Resources manages 18 public ponds across the state for public fishing.

Power of the Pond

Scott Keepfer

South Carolina is loaded with private ponds that often provide better action than big lakes, not to mention state-record catches. […]

Trophy deer and speckled trout are just two of the topics that fill our pages this month.

Real rabbit hunters are fit and rugged sportsmen. […]

Jerry Lowder said Badin’s clear water is the main reason bass put on an early spring feed bag.

Visit Badin Lake for late-winter North Carolina largemouth bass

Dan Kibler

It’s deep and clear, tucked in some of the world’s most ancient, worn-round mountains. It has no warm-water discharge, no hot hole, and it’s not a particularly big reservoir. […]

Offshore anglers — and that’s from a few hundred yards to 3 miles out — look for “gannet showers” (flocks of birds) to lead them to big schools of striped bass.

Secret of North Carolina’s Coastal Stripers

Bob Goldstein

All one needs to know about striped bass is most of them swim between Cape Cod and Cape Hatteras nine months of the year, and the remaining three months aggregate within 5 miles east of N.C. 12 on the Outer Banks from Rudee Inlet to Hatteras inlet. […]