As the water warms, fishermen who love to target redfish in ankle-deep water are in luck. A decent set of afternoon tailing tides arrive next week, just in time for many vacationers to hit the South Carolina coast, fishing rods in hand. […]
Caleb Adams, an 11-year-old from Summerville, almost doubled the Folly Beach Fishing Pier record with an 8-pound, .96-ounce spadefish that he caught on Memorial Day. […]
Kyle Lewis at Island Tackle and Hardware in Carolina Beach said more fish are arriving daily in area waters and action is picking up from the backwaters to the Gulf Stream. […]
Scott Hammond, who manages Haddrell’s Point Tackle Shop in Charleston, said he can tell summer vacation is fast approaching by the questions he fields daily as soon as schools let out and families start heading for the beaches. […]
“You’re gonna have to horse him out of there. Don’t give him any slack,” said Capt. Addison Rupert of Charleston’s Lowcountry Outdoor Adventures, coaching a client who was hooked up with a bull redfish around some wooden structure in the Wando River. […]
Anglers ready to test their tackle during the late-spring redfish offensive can get all the action they can stand within a 10-mile or 100-yard boat ride from Carolina Beach. […]
The tide was low as Capt. Mark Stacy headed to Tubbs Inlet to spend an hour or two fishing for redfish and flounder while waiting for the tide to rise enough to reach a section of marsh near Calabash where he had plans to chase redfish on the incoming tide. […]
The sun was barely glowing over the horizon as Capt. Richard Andrews of Tar-Pam Guide Service headed out one June morning, looking to get an early start on speckled trout in the Roanoke and Croatan sounds around Manteo. […]
The N.C. Marine Fisheries Commission turned down the opportunity to open commercial netting of red drum at its meeting last week in Pine Knoll Shores, but it will allow netters to put large-mesh gill nets back in the water on June 1 in areas that haven’t traditionally been home to either reds or endangered sea turtles. […]
Accounts of large alligators are becoming more common in many of our coastal areas. Not to be outdone, Capt. Ricky Kellum of Speckled Specialist Inshore Fishing Charters landed a “gator” speckled trout in the New River near Sneads Ferry on May 23 that stretched 29 inches and topped the 8-pound mark. […]
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