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September 6, 2026

Bills to adjust creel and size limits for striped bass are bottled up in the state legislature.

What’s next for stripers?

Striper fishing opens Oct. 1 — the keeper season, that is — on the Santee Cooper lakes, but no legislation has been passed to update current, long-standing regulations. […]

Guide Leroy Suggs primarily uses blueback herring for Santee Cooper stripers until menhaden move into Lake Moultrie.

Fall forage shift is key to your best catches of Santee Cooper stripers

Terry Madewell

Guide Leroy Suggs said fishing around forage is always the key to striper fishing, but he also looks for a seasonal change in forage types to impact fishing, usually in a positive manner. […]

Guide Linwood Thornhill said he gets better results when he can find an isolated school of stripers away from other boats.

Finding isolated schools of stripers leads to best Santee Cooper action

Terry Madewell

Guide Linwood Thornhill said his goal is to get some distance between his boat and others chasing stripers when possible. His experience has taught him that a thoughtful and isolated approach to the schooling action is best. […]

When fishing from a kayak in the nearshore ocean, try to fish with at least one other fisherman for safety purposes.

Kayak safety for ocean fishing

Jerry Dilsaver

Part of the fun of tackling big fish from a kayak is fishing with your friends and reliving the experience when telling the story. The first part, fishing with friends, is a key part of safety and the second, reliving the experience when telling the story, means having a safe and successful trip. […]

Using a circle hook allows easier release of big red drum, which can’t be kept longer than 27 inches.

Handling large fish for release

Jerry Dilsaver

The fall fishery off Oak Island for kings and red drum is a fishery for large fish, some of which must be released. Many fishermen keep king mackerel to eat, and that is good as they are very weak after being fought to a kayak and their odds of healthy survival are not good. […]

Artificial, soft-plastic shrimp have proven deadly on a variety of inshore gamefish, especially speckled trout.

Perfect artificial shrimp retrieve and feel the thump

Jeff Burleson

Everything living in or out of the water loves the sweet taste of shrimp, and speckled trout, redfish and flounder can’t let one of these scrumptious critters pass by without trying to make a snack out of it. […]

Tight-line trolling from the bow (above) and long-line trolling from the stern both have specific applications for crappie fishermen.

Tight-line or long-line? What’s the difference?

Phillip Gentry

Newcomers to crappie fishing often hear about tight-lining and long-lining when crappie fishermen in the Carolinas discuss trolling techniques. […]

South Carolina’s Lake Secession and North Carolina’s Shearon Harris Lake are both sleeper picks for crappie fishing in the fall.

Fall Sleepers: Harris and Secession

Phillip Gentry

When asked to pick a sleeper lake for fall crappie in North Carolina, Ed Duke recommended Shearon Harris, just southeast of Jordan. Duke said the lake is not big by reservoir standards, around 4,000 acres, and it’s not really deep, which makes it easier to fish that other lakes. […]

Capt. Rod "Ponytail" Thomas is catching bull redfish in the Georgetown, S.C. area, and takes great care to release them properly.

VIDEO: How to revive a sluggish redfish

Brian Cope

It’s bull redfish time across the Carolinas. Anglers are catching them from the piers, the beaches, and while fishing from boats. While some anglers target these trophy fish this time of year, others catch them while going after slot-sized fish. Anglers fishing for sharks also hook a bull redfish from time to time. […]

Manufacturer’s repair kits are a great place to start when kayak anglers prepare for those “What ifs?” that so often pop up on trips.

Prepare for repairs

Phillip Gentry

Afew years ago, while on an extended fishing trip to the coast with some buddies, the chain assembly on my kayak’s pedal-drive system broke. Facing two more days of long runs to the fishing grounds from the put-in, the three of us set out to find some suitable hardware to make repairs, lest the two of them should have to tow my sizeable craft or leave me sitting on the dock. […]