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April 29, 2026

It’s Spanish mackerel time along the N.C. coast

The Spanish mackerel bite is hot along the North Carolina coastline. Clark spoons, Got-cha plugs, and other similar lures are catching them. […]

The author (left) caught this nice Lake Murray striper fishing with guide Brad Taylor.

Lake Murray stripers begin to stir

Pat Robertson

With winter’s chill finally being to be replaced by warmer weather, March is a strong month for striped bass on Lake Murray, according to guide Brad Taylor. […]

Hickory shad — like this one the author caught — fill the Roanoke River and its tributaries this month.

Annual shad run sparkles in river

Dusty Wilson

For anglers in the know, fishing the March shad run offers one of the first opportunities since the deep freeze of winter to catch a pile of fish. The Roanoke River will be brimming with hickory shad, and guide Mitchell Blake of Chocowinity, N.C., will be there. […]

Reef sheep herded up

Brian Cope

Sheepshead are biting in March around many of the reefs off the coast of Charleston, S.C, including the 4KI, Charleston 60 and Edisto 40. If they’ve got 25 to 60 feet of water on top of them, they are prime sheepshead holes this time of year. […]

March redfish will be in deep holes in the marshes west of Shallotte Inlet, normally feeding around oyster rocks.

Southern North Carolina redfish begin their spring feed this month

Jerry Dilsaver

The coastal marshes of southern Brunswick County are the southernmost saltwater areas in North Carolina and are often home to the first hearty bite to fire up when the water starts warming in the spring. […]

Regan Norris caught this beautiful rainbow trout in the waters of South Carolina’s Lower Saluda River.

Try Saluda for surprise rainbows

Brian Cope

The lower Saluda River, which begins just below Lake Murray Dam outside of Columbia, S.C., is stocked with rainbow trout, and because the water in the river comes off the lake’s bottom and stays cold, they don’t die during the summer. […]

Guide James McManus targets smallmouth bass on gravel and chunk-rock banks this month on Fontana Lake.

Prespawn smallmouth starting to stir at Fontana Lake

Tony Garitta

The signs are out that fishing is about to pick up on Fontana Lake in North Carolina’s extreme southwestern corner. […]

Big wahoo are a common bluewater catch late in the winter and early in the spring in bluewater areas of South Carolina’s northern coastline.

Wahoo have bluewater covered

Jeff Burleson

Spring will finally arrive this month, and it will be a great time to plan a bluewater trip for wahoo, a top-of-the-food-chain opponent and a premiere target for offshore anglers. […]

Guide Wendell Wilson catches Lake Russell crappie shallow and deep in March, when fish are moving in and out at different stages of the spawn.

Lake Russell slabs on the move

Pat Robertson

If catching slabs is your thing, March is the best month to fish for crappie on South Carolina’s Lake Russell, according to guide Wendell Wilson of Elberton, Ga. […]

Tournament promoter Bo Russell expects Badin Lake’s big bass to bite this month.

Badin Lake to rebound?

Tony Garitta

Last March, when unreasonably warm weather drove the big-bass bite to explode on North Carolina’s High Rock and Tuckertown lakes, the trophy bass at Badin Lake just downstream didn’t get the message. Few bruisers were caught, which was shocking, because Badin historically has been the best of the Yadkin River lakes for giant bass. […]