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April 30, 2026

Big stripers are lurking on the “humps” at High Rock Lake and taking slow trolled live bait.

Stripers hanging out at High Rock ‘humps’

Just before re-injuring his knee and shelving his fishing activities at High Rock Lake for the summer, guide Maynard Edwards of Lexington discovered a hot striped bass bite. […]

Saltwater Series: Atlantic Beach

Jerry Dilsaver

Atlantic Beach and Morehead City have been favorite fishing destinations for many North Carolina fishermen for many years. Atlantic Beach is the eastern end of Bogue Banks and has an ocean beach, while Morehead City is located across the Intracoastal Waterway and Bogue Sound on the mainland. […]

Terry Madewell with a 20-pound 9-ounce blue catfish

Lake Wateree catfish on the move

Dan Kibler

Terry Madewell is one of my good buddies, a writer for South Carolina Sportsman who is good at catching or killing just about anything that appears in the SCDNR’s regulations digest. […]

Tom Blevins displays a large sheepshead caught with a fiddler crab.

Spanish, flounder, sheepshead fishing sizzling at Crystal Coast

Craig Holt

Inshore anglers are having a good time catching Spanish mackerel, flounder and sheepshead at the Crystal Coast. […]

Capt. Mike Taylor landed this flounder while fishing a jig on the hard bottoms near Bogue Inlet.

Heavy rigging for deep jigging in Bogue Inlet

Mike Marsh

The Bogue Inlet rocks (Keypost rocks) and Bogue Inlet artificial reef are in much deeper water than the places most flounder anglers go to find fish. […]

Crankbaits are catching bass at Randleman Dam Reservoir in 10 to 12 feet of water, along with plastic worms.

Randleman Dam kicking along strong for bass

Craig Holt

Although some bass anglers are saying fishing at Randleman Dam Reservoir, piedmont North Carolina’s newest bass impoundment, has slacked off after its hot first year, at least one largemouth guide thinks that’s not the case. […]

New book a godsend for SC redfish anglers

Todd Masson

South Carolina’s coast features some of the best redfish action in the entire U.S. The fish are beloved in the Palmetto State because they’re brilliantly crafty, ridiculously powerful and delightfully delicious. […]

Captain J Baisch of Fishfull Thinking shows off a spadefish of average size

Spadefish schooling up on reefs along coast

Jeff Dennis

There’s rarely a sure thing in saltwater fishing, but it’s a safe bet that the spadefish are biting this June. […]

July magazine preview

Dan Kibler

Live bait is the bait of choice for most serious flounder fishermen, but a guide who fishes out of Bogue Inlet has found a different way to bag big flatfish: a bucktail jig/plastic shrimp combination. […]

‘Famous’ fishing holes like the Grillage produce big bull redfish beginning in June and lasting through the fall.

Salwater Series: Charleston Harbor

Dan Kibler

The Charleston Harbor area is arguably the center of South Carolina’s coastal fishery, and in more ways that just geography. […]