Rather than packing the truck and making a long drive to the Upstate, the lower Saluda River offers trout fishermen a unique opportunity in the Midlands. Stocked during the winter by the S.C. Department of Natural Resources, the lower Saluda in and around Columbia is filled with quality browns and rainbows. […]
Striped bass are one of the success stories of fishery management, and their spring spawning run up the Roanoke River is the jewel in North Carolina’s crown. […]
Mondays are my favorite days to fish the Roanoke in spring. Every Monday, N.C. Wildlife Resources Commission and N.C. Division of Marine Fisheries do their electrofishing survey. […]
Fort Mill native Mitchell McConnell was fishing in Greenfield Lake in Wilmington, N.C. when earlier this month, and he broke the Tarheel State’s brown bullhead record with a 4-pounder he caught with live bait. […]
Kerr Lake will be a top-drawer location for slab seekers in April, but it will take a versatile angler to stay in the strike zone. […]
April 2 marks the beginning of trout season for North Carolina’s approximately 1,000 miles of hatchery-supported trout waters across 25 counties in the western part of the state. […]
Wilber Marsh of Goose Creek loved to fish, and went several days a week before having a stroke in 1996. And while most people understand that having a stroke and losing the use of your dominant arm and hand is an acceptable excuse for giving up fishing, Marsh doesn’t. […]
Kerr Reservoir was one of the best striped and largemouth bass lakes in the country for 25 years after the lake opened for public use in 1952. […]
In 2010, two Nashville, N.C. anglers set state records for white crappie at Tar River Reservoir. […]
Selecting the correct jig size depends on the conditions, with wind and water depth major players. […]
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