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September 6, 2026

If you locate a school of trout, you can easily catch multiple fish by casting a jighead dressed with a soft-plastic lure.

Some Lowcountry places to find fall trout

In the Port Royal Sound area, anglers generally choose the landing where SC 170 crosses the Chechessee River or the Broad River, depending on where they will fish. […]

Planer boards work in conjunction with free lines to spread lines so they don’t get tangled behind the boat.

Freelines, planer boards are a big part of striped bass anglers’ arsenals

Phillip Gentry

Free-lining is a very natural presentation of live bait, with baits allowed to free swim behind the boat, often with enough line out to allow the bait to decide the chosen depth. Rigs can be as simple as a line with a hook on the end. Boat speed should be adequate to maintain a tight line back to the bait. […]

Typical rod storage options on a kayak require placing rods vertically behind the angler, often necessitating the skill to cast sidearm accurately.

Take it up a notch

Phillip Gentry

Fishing from a kayak is a work in progress. Everyone gets into the sport at different levels and skill sets, and some progress faster or slower than the rest. Developing skills is essential to advancing both your enjoyment and proficiency in catching fish from a plastic boat. […]

Using a neoprene reel cover helps protect your reels, and you can do it in style with these covers from SportFish.

Protect your fishing reels in style

Brian Cope

I had a friend show up for a fishing trip recently with two spinning reels. He couldn’t turn the handle or open the bail on either one of them. The problem? He’d failed to clean them after his last saltwater trip from two weeks earlier. […]

Weedless topwaters?

Brian Cope

Using topwater lures in a walk-the-dog fashion over oyster shell banks, especially in smaller creek mouths that meet larger channels, is a great way to catch speckled trout this time of year. […]

Walker Baldwin, Shane Smith, Clay Walker, and Ross Carroll were fishing out of Masonboro Inlet with they caught this big wahoo while trolling.

Hampstead angler boats 108-pound wahoo out of Masonboro Inlet

Dusty Wilson

Walker Baldwin of Hampstead, N.C., had high hopes for a big day of wahoo fishing as he and the crew aboard the Kool-Aid, a 31-foot Cape Horn owned and operated by Shane Smith of Wilmington, N.C., left Masonboro Inlet and headed for the Gulf Stream on Oct. 20. […]

Capt. Rod Thomas, a/k/a Capt. Ponytail poses with a bull redfish he caught on a popping cork/swimbait combo in Winyah Bay.

VIDEO: Catch more bull redfish with this tip

Brian Cope

This time of year, anglers up and down the coast of both Carolinas can find trophy redfish much closer to shore than any other time of the year. These big bulls, which can range in size from 35 to over 50 pounds, come inshore to spawn, then head back out to the bluewater until next fall. […]

Learn about foxes, fishing, hunting, and more at these free workshops offered by PIsgah Wildlife Education Center throughout November.

Pisgah Wildlife Education Center offering free November workshops

NCWRC Release

The N.C. Wildlife Resources Commission’s Pisgah Center for Wildlife Education is offering free outdoor-related workshops for people of all ages and skill levels throughout the month of November. […]

Capt. Todd Vick shows off two crappie from a recent trip on the Waccamaw River.

How to catch more Waccamaw River crappie

Brian Cope

Anglers looking for some hot crappie fishing can find it on South Carolina’s Waccamaw River, and even though the fish are hungry and biting, this river is widely ignored by anglers who like to catch these paper-mouthed panfish. […]

Bradford Beavers of Ridgeland, SC secured his biggest win at the 2017 Costa FLW Series Championship.

SC angler Bradford Beavers wins Costa FLW Series Championship

Brian Cope

Bradford Beavers of Ridgeville, S.C. was the only angler in the Costa FLW Series Championship on Kentucky Lake to catch a 5-fish limit on day three of the tournament, and that pushed his total weight for the event to 45 pounds, 12 ounces, which earned him his biggest win of his young career. […]