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May 1, 2026

Winter bass fishing can be productive, especially if the right lures are used and anglers take note of the weather.

Bassin’ can be hot when it’s cold

When the trees become bare, the last of the Thanksgiving leftovers are gone, and the water temperature falls below fifty degrees, bass fishing can become a supremely challenging task. […]

“Old” drum, for some reason, are more likely to bite at night, as Lynn Bost discovered.

CALO Fish Tales

Terry Shive

A crescent moon set against a starlit sky, while beautiful to behold, provided scant illumination to the night.Ghost-like gray images of anglers, clad in chest waders, barely were distinguishable as they cautiously inched their way into the rising, turbulent waters of South Core Banks at the point of the island — Cape Lookout. […]

Cover: December 2006 (NC) – Fishing

North Carolina Sportsman

Sure, it’s December, but anglers from Cape Fear to Cape Lookout will be having as much fun as their deer-hunting counterparts are in more inland areas. […]

Largemouth bass have been reduced to 11 percent of the Lake Keowee population.

A Current Affair

Dan Kibler

The water needs to move. It doesn’t matter which way, as long as there’s a strong current carrying it in one direction or the other, and it doesn’t hurt if there’s a nice breeze blowing, even one hard enough to dot the surface of Lake Keowee with whitecaps. […]

Ralph Phillips hoists an American shad at the Tail Race Canal at the Cooper River while Adam Ridgeway, foreground, works his line.

Christmas Shad

Jack Horan

They’re known as “Christmas shad” because American shad, starting their annual migratory spawning run, can be caught at the lower Cooper River during Christmas week. […]

Using 10-pound-test line to tie to a jighead lure works well with a three-way swivel trolling rig (tight lining) because the heavier line allows the lure to float higher than the weight while being pulled through crappies’ strike zones.

Confounded by Crappies?

Dan Kibler

Lake Murray is, by all estimates, a big reservoir.

It stretches more than 41 miles from the dam near Columbia past the forks of the Big Saluda and Little Saluda rivers, covers 50,000 acres and has 520 miles of shoreline. […]

Fishing guides such as Capt. Jeff Yates suggest anglers study creeks and look for potentially productive “bends” of the streams.

Speckled December

Walt Rhodes

It was that perfect kind of a winter day that makes living in the Lowcountry so enjoyable. […]

Captain Dennis Starke (L) and Jay Higgins hoist the winner's $150,000 check form the Wal-Mart FLW kingfish Tour Championship.

Sea Bandit Filches Wal-Mart FLW Kingfish Tour Championship

Jerry Dilsaver

MOUNT PLEASANT, S.C. – Team Sea Bandit headed by Dennis Starke of Pine Bluff, N.C. made a move from third place after the preliminary rounds of the Wal-Mart FLW Kingfish Tour Championship, held November 9 to 11, to catch the second largest king of the final day and secure the championship win and a check for $150,000. […]

Aggressive spots biting at Keowee

Scott Keepfer

Rocky Wells compares the spotted bass at Lake Keowee to “a bunch of lions.” […]

Billy Ray Lucas (R) sizes up his double record 116.5 pound cobia.

NC Record Cobia Recognized as World Record

Jerry Dilsaver

On Sunday June 11, Billy Ray Lucas, of Wilson, Capt. Troy Crane and a group of close friends fought their way through a nasty Outer Banks thunderstorm to land a 116.5 pound cobia and earn a N.C. State Record for Lucas. […]