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Black-water Redbreasts
Drifting slowly through Marion County along the oil-black vein known as the Lumber River, swollen cypress trees line its banks draped with gray beards of Spanish moss. […]
Freshwater Fishing
Freshwater Fishing
Light is right
Like most panfish, fishing for redbreast sunfish is a light-duty affair. Four-pound test monofilament on a 5-foot spinning or spincasting outfit is plenty of backbone for sunfish that rarely push a pound. […]
Freshwater Fishing
Trophy ‘management’
It’s hard enough to catch a trophy striped bass these days to risk ruining the trophy with poor handling. […]
Freshwater Fishing
Striper Sniper
In 2003, Troy Roberson, a former Jordan Lake State Park ranger, founded the fishing-guide service Striper Sniper Adventures. […]
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Mitchell County’s Cane Creek produces good summer fishing for mountain trout
One of the many small creeks throughout western North Carolina, Cane Creek is proof that big things come in small packages. […]
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Upcoming full moon will mean bream, shellcracker heaven
Bream and shellcrackers are heading to their spawning beds on the Santee Cooper lakes, and they’re at their most vulnerable as they protect their territory. […]
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Thurmond striper fishermen loading the boat with summer-pattern fish
Lake Thurmond, aka Clarks Hill, has always been a place to catch big stripers, and guide William Sasser said it’s been producing both good fish and good numbers in recent days. […]
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Catfish action heating up at Kerr Lake
July usually is too hot and humid for anglers to chase most varieties of freshwater fish except two — mountain trout and catfish. […]
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Santee Cooper crappie are biting around deep brushpiles
Summertime can sometimes mean that fish aren’t as active as they are in cooler months. The heat also moves fish that would normally hold in coves have a tendency to move to deeper, cooler water. […]
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Get out early for Lake Wateree catfish
When Chuck Porter goes fishing early, he’s not talking about dawn. During the sweltering heat of late July and August, he’s talking about being anchored up on a hump or ledge on Lake Wateree while it’s still dark. […]