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May 14, 2026

Cover: July 2010(SC) – Freshwater

South Carolina Sportsman

The Betsy Ross Reef is a great spot for summertime bottom-fishing, and Lake Murray’s stripers wake up at night. […]

Crappie will feed more at night, and in shallower water, on full-moon summer nights.

Carolina crappie easy to catch on full-moon nights

Jeff Burleson

Crappie fishing is almost always better with the light as low as possible. […]

Drifting cut baits on a Carolina rig or Santee rig is the preferred method for catching Kerr Reservoir’s blue catfish.

Whiskered Whoppers

Craig Holt

If you like heated arguments, it only takes one question: which North Carolina lake has the most and biggest catfish? […]

Little Cataloochee Creek is a beautiful trout stream in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park.

No trout dinner, but a wonderful day

Robert Satterwhite

Hunkered under the wide limbs of a huge spruce, I waited out an early summer rainstorm, a hard, pounding, gully-washer kind of rain. […]

Cover: June 2010 (SC) – Freshwater

South Carolina Sportsman

Lunker bass and line-stripping redfish. Is there any better month than June? […]

Spring marks the peak of the annual mating ritual for a majority of freshwater gamefish species in South Carolina, with the almighty crappie being one of the first to rush into the stump-laden shallows. […]

Summer heat is very tough on stripers, which is why the Santee Cooper fishery is closed from June 1-Sept. 30. State officials also discourage catch and release, as many fish die within days because of stress during the fight.

Seasonal Santee Cooper striped bass fishing closure begins June 1

SCDNR News Release

The seasonal closure of the Santee Cooper system striped bass fishery begins June 1 and extends through Sept. 30, during which time no striped bass may be harvested or possessed for any reason, the South Carolina Department of Natural Resources announced. […]

Striped bass are attempting to spawn in the Yadkin chain of lakes, especially behind the Tuckertown dam.

Stripers backed up at Tuckertown dam

Craig Holt

May is a transition month at most central North Carolina lakes as fish are spawning, bedding or moving off beds. […]

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State record for brook trout changes hands three more times

SCDNR News Release

South Carolina’s brook trout record, which until 2010 had stood for more than 30 years, was recently broken three times in less than a week as mature brood fish from the Walhalla State Fish Hatchery were stocked in Upstate streams. […]

With the removal of the Dillsboro Dam, the Tuckasegee River has an uninterrupted flow from Cullowhee to Fontana Lake.

Dam removal expected to enhance fishing on Tuckasegee River

Robert Satterwhite

The historic Dillsboro Dam in Jackson County has been demolished, creating approximately 32 miles of free-flowing water on the Tuckasegee River from Cullowhee to Fontana Reservoir. […]