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July 12, 2026

Jigging rigs need the best solid rings around

Fishermen tie an awful lot of rigs in an awful lot of different ways, and jigging is no different. Beginning jiggers are often unsure of the correct way to connect their terminal tackle. […]

Rods designed for bottom-jigging will bend all the way to the butt to enable anglers to put plenty of pressure on big fish.

The good ol’ Bimini twist is still the best

Chris Burrows

Anglers have devised a number of methods to create a double line, some easy to tie and some not. But there is probably not a more tried-and-true method of creating a loop than the venerable Bimini twist. […]

Swimbaits, like this one from LiveTarget, are luring more anglers and fish due to their lifelike appearance and swimming motion.

Make your lures match the hatch

Phillip Gentry

Many manufactures have lured a lot of fishermen to the sales counter with paint jobs and swimming action, but none has done it better in recent years than LiveTarget lures. […]

Speckled trout will frequent clean water, white shell banks and deep holes this month around Edisto Island.

Go clean, deep for specks

Brian Cope

Many anglers on South Carolina’s Edisto Island give up on speckled trout in the heat of June, and while they find it’s easier to catch redfish and flounder, they are missing out on some good fishing. […]

Chris Phinney spends much of his time on the water in June fishing channel drops in Falls of Neuse Lake.

Falls of Neuse bass turn on in deeper water this month

Dusty Wilson

June marks a period many bass anglers have anticipated since the spawn. Fish stir from their post-spawn funk, slip into their summer pattern and tie on the feed bag. […]

Guide Preston Harden said stripers and hybrids are hungry and feed aggressively in June on Lake Hartwell once they’ve finished their annual false spawning run up the lake’s main rivers.

Hartwell stripers, hybrids put on the feed bag this month to recover from spawn

Pat Robertson

June is one of the best, if not the best month, to fish for stripers and hybrids on Lake Hartwell, according to guide Preston Harden of Commerce, Ga. […]

Gabriel Petteway, 9, from Rocky Mount, caught his first two Spanish mackerel on a June 2016 trip with Noah’s Ark Fishing Charters.

Cape Lookout speaks Spanish

Dan Kibler

There’s no shortage of fish ready to bite in the Cape Lookout area in June: flounder, speckled trout and redfish, for example. But when Noah Lynk of Noah’s Ark Fishing Charters steers his boat out of its Harkers Island. N.C., home base this month, he’s got Spanish mackerel on his mind. […]

High Rock Lake may not boast the huge numbers or huge fish of other lakes, but its 8- to 12-pound stripers are there for the taking this time of year.

Rock a striped bass

Tony Garitta

Guide Jerry Hill of Lexington, N.C., has swapped striper boats three or four times in recent years, and he’s back on the water in his latest vessel just in time for some of the best striper fishing that High Rock Lake has to offer. […]

The marshes around Georgetown, S.C., will fill up with hungry spot-tail bass during June.

Spot-tails make Georgetown waters a June destination

Jeff Burleson

Summer is in full bloom this month along South Carolina’s coast, with inshore options wide open. Among the best locations are the sprawling marshes around Georgetown, where it’s ground zero for some of the best action of the season on spot-tail bass, aka redfish. […]

Big flounder and lots of them descend on nearshore artificial reefs and wrecks from North Carolina’s Cape Fear to the South Carolina line.

Wreck, reef flounder time

Jerry Dilsaver

Flounder numbers increase in June around nearshore artificial reefs, rocks and wrecks south from North Carolina’s Bald Head Island to the state line, and after a mild winter, they are getting a head start this year. […]