September is a month of change on Marion and Moultrie, the Santee Cooper lakes. To be consistently successful, fishing techniques must change to cope with the transition from summer to fall patterns as the month progresses. […]
Floating on the featureless surface of Lake Moultrie reminded me of my honeymoon. My bride and I spent several days fishing in Baja, Mexico. […]
Two of the rods toward the stern of Capt. Ben Lee’s pontoon boat hadn’t jumped around in quite a while. Lee looked at the fisherman charged with keeping an eye on them and said, “I can assure you, if you’re not getting bit, your cricket’s gone.” […]
Ricky Harvell didn’t leave his home in Lexington this past April 19 to catch a big catfish at High Rock Lake; he went to fill a cooler with crappie filets. […]
The hum of the big 4-stroke was a far cry from the outboards of yesterday — the days when trolling open water meant yelling at your buddy if he happened to be standing on the opposite side of the outboard. […]
One hard lesson I’ve learned fishing mountain trout streams in the hottest months of summer is this: how you present a fly is far more important than the type of fly you use. If the fly is sufficiently “buggy” and floats naturally, chances are good that a trout will hit it. […]
Ned Connelly squinted through the smoke-gray dawn, surveying the water intently for the tiniest of splashes. Motoring along the shoreline of Lake Waccamaw, he wiped his forehead with a towel. […]
With hot weather bearing down, summertime fishing patterns are solidly locked into place on the Santee Cooper lakes, but if you have a good plan of action, that’s certainly not necessarily a bad thing. […]
Alan and Jeanne Robinson have owned several watercraft — everything from johnboats to bass boats to Boston Whalers — but none have provided as much pleasure as their $100 float tubes. […]
Preston Harden of Bucktail Guide Service doesn’t book half-day trips for striped bass on Lake Hartwell, but most of the full-day trips he’s taken over the last week have only lasted a short while.
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