Catfish
The cats’ meow
Anglers from throughout the Carolinas make an annual trek to the Santee Cooper lakes in search of trophy catfish, and these enormous cats make it worth the trouble with explosive bites and drag-screaming surges. […]
Freshwater Fishing
Featured
Delayed Harvest trout regulations now in effect for 36 trout waters in WNC
The N.C. Wildlife Resources Commission has implement Delayed Harvest Trout Waters regulations on 36 trout waters in 20 western North Carolina counties as of Oct. 1, 2018. Prior to Oct. 1, Hatchery Supported Trout Waters regulations apply to these waters. […]
Columns
Streamers are made for September trout
Thunderstorms and showers are as much a part of late summer as huckleberries, fireflies and bobwhites. Although summer storms arrive quickly and usually end just as quickly, even high-gradient mountain streams need a little time to calm down. […]
Featured
Spot run on across Murrells Inlet’s estuary
Every year, South Carolina’s coastal estuaries fill up with boaters and anglers, but when the parking lot at Murrells Inlet’s public boat ramp is filled with boat trailers in the fall, it’s not a boaters convention. The spots are biting! […]
Crappie/Bream
Lake Tillery’s slabs are hanging around thermocline
David Diggs of Norwood, N.C., said October is a great time to catch Lake Tillery’s big crappie. […]
Crappie/Bream
Clarks Hill slabs grow up plenty
October usually kicks off a 3- to 4-month period of big crappie, and big numbers of crappie, on South Carolina’s Clarks Hill Lake, according to guide William Sasser. […]
Catfish
New kayak gear reviews
It’s a skiff. It’s a dinghy. It’s a tender. It’s a paddleboard. It’s a BOTE … in a bag. Meet the Rover AeroBOTE, the most-portable paddle skiff on the market. It goes from travel bag to BOTE and back again, easy to store, tags along on any adventure, and stands up to the toughest tests on any waterway — and even baggage claim. […]
Freshwater Fishing
Year-round white perch
While guide Zakk Royce confines most of his perch fishing to Lake Gaston along the North Carolina-Virginia border, you’d be hard-pressed to name any reservoir in North Carolina’s Piedmont or South Carolina’s Midlands that isn’t chock full of them. […]
Catfish
Kayak anglers like catching Pee Dee River catfish
Catching Pee Dee River catfish from kayaks is fun and productive. […]
Features
Solve the perch equation
For those of you who are live-bait fisherman, have you ever been so proud of the job you did catching, storing and presenting the bait that you thought, “That looks so good, I’d eat it myself?” […]