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October 21, 2026

Cover: August 2014 (SC)

Deer season is just around the corner, and visions of big bucks are clearly on the minds of many hunters across South Carolina. Learn what the season may hold. […]

Gray triggerfish are just one of a handful of bottomfish species commonly caught on long-range summer trips out of Little River.

Bottoms up! Summer bottom-fishing is best well offshore for anglers around Little River

Mike Marsh

Little River Inlet enters the Atlantic Ocean just below the state line between North Myrtle Beach, S.C., and Sunset Beach, N.C. Anglers from both states use the inlet to gain access to fabulous fishing, the most notable of which may be summer bottomfish action. […]

Early morning is the best time to target Shearon Harris’ magnum white perch in the summer, but good fish and good numbers can be caught throughout the day.

Perched for success – Don’t miss out on a cooler full of Shearon Harris white perch this summer

Dusty Wilson

It’s no secret that Shearon Harris Lake between Raleigh and Sanford is a hot spot for trophy bass and slab crappie. […]

Former guide Stanley Correll gets excited about Tuckertown Lake flathead catfish, even when they’re only 25-pounders like this one. His biggest from the Yadkin River reservoir weighed 58.

Just cattin’ around – Best flathead catfish action of year is just around the bend at Tuckertown Lake

Dan Kibler

For years, a trip to Tuckertown Lake was a busman’s holiday for Stanley Correll. Now it’s just pure pleasure. […]

Brian Lockwood puts some muscle into fighting a nice bottomfish from the seat of his jet ski.

The jet set

Bill Howard

Something seemed out of place. While it’s not uncommon to see a personal watercraft, aka jet ski, putting in at the Newport River boat ramp near Radio Island, this one was different. […]

The author took this nice bonnethead shark from shallow water in a marsh off Winyah Bay.

A different kind of bonnet – Shallow-water sharking is a summertime adventure in South Carolina waters

Jeff Burleson

During the middle of the summer along South Carolina’s beautiful shores, the mercury bubbles toward the very top of the scale, with water temperatures sky-rocketing to the mid-80s. […]

A little closer to home, the waters of the western side of Pamlico Sound hold some great late-summer and fall flounder fishing.

Western flats

Jerry Dilsaver

Guide Mitchell Blake pointed out riprap scattered up and down the bank and how the tide was concentrating the water as it flowed around the edge of one particularly large rock. […]

Mac Willis of Walterboro takes a good look at a chunky redbreast sunfish from the Combahee River.

Bream bonanza – Comb the Combahee River for great blackwater fishing for bream

Brian Cope

With its headwaters in Colleton County and ending at St. Helena Sound, the Combahee River — the “C” in ACE Basin — is a relatively short river, but the lack of length isn’t a negative for anglers. […]

North Carolina’s deer herd is increasing slightly, and hunters are taking advantage of opportunities like never before.

2014-15 North Carolina Deer Season Preview

Craig Holt

After last season’s record harvest, hunters might expect to tag fewer North Carolina deer this fall. But the take of 188,130 deer in 2013 isn’t necessarily going to cause a decline this year because of the dynamics of deer reproduction, weather, mast production, Sunday archery hunting and expansive either-sex seasons. […]

Guide Bill Plumley likes to start and finish early for August stripers, but he said the pattern is the most consistent of the year.

Rock around the clock for Lake Hartwell’s summer stripers

Phillip Gentry

Guide Bill Plumley is more of an early bird than a night owl, and he said that when summer settles in on 56,000-acre Lake Hartwell and the recreational boating crowd tends to dominate the mid-day, he’d rather get up early and finish early than stay up all night. […]