There’s no shortage of fish ready to bite in the Cape Lookout area in June: flounder, speckled trout and redfish, for example. But when Noah Lynk of Noah’s Ark Fishing Charters steers his boat out of its Harkers Island. N.C., home base this month, he’s got Spanish mackerel on his mind. […]
Guide Jerry Hill of Lexington, N.C., has swapped striper boats three or four times in recent years, and he’s back on the water in his latest vessel just in time for some of the best striper fishing that High Rock Lake has to offer. […]
Summer is in full bloom this month along South Carolina’s coast, with inshore options wide open. Among the best locations are the sprawling marshes around Georgetown, where it’s ground zero for some of the best action of the season on spot-tail bass, aka redfish. […]
Flounder numbers increase in June around nearshore artificial reefs, rocks and wrecks south from North Carolina’s Bald Head Island to the state line, and after a mild winter, they are getting a head start this year. […]
June has never been a great month for catching catfish on Lake Wylie, because blue catfish are spawning and mayflies are hatching, according to guide Rodger Taylor of Rock Hill. […]
Summer fishing wouldn’t be complete without Spanish mackerel on the menu. From the middle of May through Labor Day, Spanish call the nearshore waters along the coast home, and for anglers in South Carolina’s Grand Strand, the tide lines extending from two major inlets create a fish-in-the-barrel situation where a 15-fish limit is almost a piece of cake. […]
Guide Joel Richardson of Kernersville, N.C., said bass fishermen not only can find top-to-bottom action in June at Buggs Island Lake, aka Kerr Reservoir, but they can also catch fish in a variety of ways. […]
South Carolina’s harvest season for oysters and mussels will close on Monday, May 15, 2017 at one half hour after official sunset, according to South Carolina Department of Natural Resources (SCDNR) officials. Clam season will close on Wednesday, May 31, 2017 at one half hour after official sunset. […]
A legal question has caused the N.C. Marine Fisheries Commission to change part of its new cobia regulations, removing the mandatory reporting of recreational cobia landings and replacing it with a request that anglers report their catches. […]
Seeing a school of crappie on your side-imaging electronics is one thing: Getting those fish into the boat is quite another. […]
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