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June 17, 2026

Bays and small creeks of the ICW between Surf City and Swansboro have been full of redfish lately, but they've been a little spooky and choosy at times.

ICW creeks, bays producing redfish from Surf City to Swansboro

Some of the abundant shallow bays and creeks along the Intracoastal Waterway between Surf City and Swansboro are holding big schools of winter redfish. […]

Crappie in Lake Moultrie moved almost overnight from deep water to the shallows as the water warmed and the spawn began to kick in.

Lake Moultrie’s slab crappie turn on almost overnight

Terry Madewell

The migration to the shallows for Lake Moultrie crappie has begun and slab crappies are being caught in skinny water. […]

Bulls Bay is producing a lot of nice redfish for anglers who are willing to fish slowly enough.

Bulls Bay redfish rewarding patient anglers

Brian Cope

Anglers looking for numbers of redfish and good-sized fish are getting what they want in Bulls Bay north of Charleston. […]

Big bass are starting to stir in reservoirs around North Carolina, especially Shearon Harris.

Big bass welcome fishermen to Shearon Harris Lake

Craig Holt

Muddy water from recent winter storms has slowed down fishing on bass fishing on lakes around North Carolina, but a couple of fishermen showed this past weekend just how good it can be – even when things look bad. […]

Limits of big black sea bass like this one have been common on offshore reefs out of Murrells Inlet, especially The Parking Lot.

Big black sea bass cover up offshore reefs out of Murrells Inlet

Jeff Burleson

Bottom-fishing aficionados looking for a 2-handed thrill can find it not too terribly far out of Murrells Inlet. Heavy stringers of big black sea are lurking about 30 miles off the beach and are gobbling up just about anything dropped onto their dinner table. […]

Bass pro Casey Ashley finished 11th in last week's Bassmaster Classic on Alabama's Lake Guntersville.

Bass pro Ashley pleased with performance in Bassmaster Classic

Taylor Pardue

Rain muddied the water at last weekend’s Bassmaster Classic, but it couldn’t stop South Carolina’s Casey Ashley from a finish among the leaders. […]

At its latest meeting, the N.C. Marine Fisheries Commission backed off an earlier proposal to immediately reduce by-catch from shrimp trawling.

N.C. Marine Fisheries Commission keeps trout closure, changes shrimp by-catch stance

Jerry Dilsaver

The N.C. Marine Fisheries Commission kept in place at its Feb. 19-21 meeting a ban on all commercial and recreational speckled trout fishing through mid-June and kept in place the current creel and size limits, but it changed course when it came to reducing by-catch from shrimp trawling. […]

North Carolina deer hunters are just a few days away from the annual Dixie Deer Classic, scheduled for Friday through Sunday in Raleigh.

Dixie Deer Classic will open this Friday in Raleigh

From News Reports

Can the Dixie Deer Classic possibly be 34 years old? Well, it’s difficult to remember a time when North Carolina’s best bucks weren’t on display at the N.C. State Fairgrounds, but the 34th annual Dixie Deer Classic is indeed at hand, scheduled for Feb. 28-March 2 at the fairgrounds in Raleigh, specifically the Jim Graham Building, the Exhibition Building and Dorton Arena. […]

Arkansas angler Jerry McCready discovered a crappie bite in the spillway below Lake Greenwood that produced better fish than the winning weights in Saturday’s Crappie Masters event there.

Lake Greenwood spillway bite is producing lots of big crappie

Phillip Gentry

Several days of boredom led Jerry McCready of Cabot, Ark., to discover a phenomenal crappie bite right under the noses of local anglers. […]

Larry Stauch and Jack Watts caught this 20-pound stringer of bass at Badin Lake this past Saturday.

Badin’s late-winter bass fishery is among state’s best

Walter Taylor

Bass anglers can pick easier lakes than Badin to fish in February, especially those with warm-water discharges from power plants. […]