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September 7, 2026

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

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. […]

Sample the buffet line

Phillip Gentry

While many bass anglers don’t distinguish between threadfin shad and blueback herring when they refer to the “shad spawn,” knowing the differences between baitfish species could pay off at weigh-in time. Here’s a run-down of what prey species are likely to be sharing water with bass this month: […]

The proper way to hook a live shrimp for use on a float rig for speckled trout is by pushing one barb through just under the shimp’s horn.

Speckled trout: the people’s favorite

Jerry Dilsaver

Spotted seatrout, Cynoscion nebulosus — aka speckled trout or specks — are found in the surf from Hilton Head, S.C. to Corolla, N.C., and beyond. They gather in schools and feed on shrimp, minnows, smaller fish and crabs on the bottom and suspended in the water column. […]

Veteran angler Luke Horn shows off a bragging-sized Oak Island pier trout.

Oak Island Pier: MIA

Jerry Dilsaver

The Oak Island Pier, one of two piers on North Carolina’s Oak Island, was closed in mid-March because of damage from Hurricane Matthew in 2016. […]

Spinnerbaits are great lures to fool redfish in the stained waters of coastal rivers.

Good vibrations are important for catching Carolina redfish

Dusty Wilson

Spinnerbaits and spoons have long been staples in a bass fisherman’s tackle box, and they are leaned on heavily in the Mississippi Delta for bass and redfish. Their flash and vibration make them an unmistakable target in low-visibility water and a great search bait. […]

Redfish love crawdads and the brackish water that the tasty crustaceans inhabit.

Cape Fear River is prime territory for brackish water reds

Dusty Wilson

North Carolina anglers looking to capitalize on a redfish’s compulsion for crawfish should look first to areas where the tasty crustaceans live. Although Louisiana may turn mudbugs out by the bushel, many Tarheel State rivers have their fair share. […]

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. […]