Freshwater Fishing

Wylie Wonderland

Tarheel State fishermen have a big choice during the winter: stay home and watch television and see guys catch fish from the phosphate pits of Florida or go fishing. […]

Freshwater Fishing

Have a holiday striper

I make my living fishing for bass, and I certainly love to fish for them, but sometimes I like to fish for other species of gamefish. I love to fish for bream, crappie and striped bass, and December is the time I fish for stripers and hybrids in Lake Murray and Clarks Hill and Wateree and even Santee Cooper. […]

Freshwater Fishing

Having and beating those ‘winter blues’

With winter upon us and cold weather as harsh and brittle as a dried twig, most outdoors-minded people are enjoying warm, cozy fireplaces, while the true fishermen are challenging the cold.

Putting on their cold-weather survival gear and attaching the enclosures around the cockpit of their boats, they continue doing what they do the best: catching catfish on the Santee Cooper lakes.

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