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May 14, 2026

Cover: May 2010 (SC)

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Delicious flounder and crappie are on the menu for anglers this month. […]

May is an excellent month to catch blue catfish at Santee Cooper. Drifting different kinds of cut bait is a tried-and-true tactic.

Take your pick; it will be biting

If there’s any month of the year when you can expect just about everything to be biting on the Santee Cooper lakes, it would be May. […]

Jon Smith (left) and Jarrett Freeze won the Feb. 27 Yadkin Team Tournament event at Badin Lake.

Cherry, Lineberger win in Ledbetter

Hank Cherry of Maiden and Shane Lineberger of Lincolnton topped a field of 189 teams in the March 14 Jim Ledbetter Memorial Team Bass Tournament at Lake Norman, a tournament that raises money for The V Foundation for Cancer Research. […]

Bite-Sized Lakes, Slab-Sized Crappie

When talking about crappie fishing at Great Falls, most anglers are referring to two hotspots, not just one. […]

Santee Cooper ‘Crackers

“Polly want a cracker?” I don’t know who Polly was, but it almost seems like she must have spent some time on the Santee Cooper lakes during the spring. […]

A gorgeous brown trout is a reward for the work it takes to get off the beaten path and into the wilds of Hazel Creek.

Hiking Hazel

Traveling up the Hazel Creek Trail into the Great Smoky Mountains National Park affords excellent trout fishing and so much more. […]

Featured

Santee Cooper blue catfish regulations extended three more years

SCDNR News Release

Gov. Mark Sanford and the S.C. General Assembly have extended the law limiting the harvest of Arkansas blue catfish in the waters of Lake Marion, the Diversion Canal, the Rediversion Canal above St. Stephen Dam, and Lake Moultrie.
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Guide Heath Rayfield of Buchanan Shoals Sportsman's Preserve south of Wadesboro said catfish like this 45-pound blue are not uncommon on the Pee Dee River.

Pee Dee River catfish are latest example of great cast-and-blast action

Until last Thursday, when I heard the phrase “cast-and-blast”, I thought about a morning turkey hunt along the Roanoke River and an afternoon fishing trip on the river for striped bass. […]

The state record for white crappie fell for the second time in less than a month on April 6, when Nashville angler Ray Patterson landed this slab.

Another Nashville angler reels in white crappie state record from Tar River Reservoir

From News Reports

For the second time in less than month, a Nashville angler has reeled a state-record white crappie from the Tar River Reservoir. […]

Rod King has good success fishing for Falls Lake crappie during the spawn, which is nearing its end.

Falls Lake crappie are shallow-minded

Falls of the Neuse Lake crappie are the shallowest now they’ll be all year as the spring spawn winds down. […]

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