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July 15, 2026

Deep jigging spoons is Tony Alexander’s favorite way to catch January stripers on Lake Murray.

Spoon-feed Murray’s stripers

Some folks call it bottom-bumping, some perch-jerking, and some just call it spooning. No matter your preference, the technique of vertically jigging a spoon is definitely something striped bass fans should be doing this month on South Carolina’s Lake Murray. […]

Guide Jot Owens targets stripers in the Cape Fear River around Wilmington, N.C., with a variety of hard and soft baits.

Cape Fear stripers hit the river in good numbers this month

Jerry Dilsaver

Once the water and weather cools, striped bass become the primary target of fishermen in the Cape Fear, Northeast Cape Fear and Brunswick rivers around Wilmington, N.C. […]

Guide Preston Harden seines the water around and under docks and bridges for Hartwell’s winter crappie .

Lake Hartwell crappie bite is a delicate one

Pat Robertson

When winter sets in and water temperatures drop below 48 degrees in South Carolina’s Lake Hartwell, stripers, hybrids and black bass pretty much shut down, with a few exceptions. […]

Work Shearon Harris Lake depths for best winter crappie fishing

Dusty Wilson

Guide Greg Griffin of Holly Springs, N.C., can count on two things in January: falling water temperatures and a consistent, deep-water bite for slab crappie on Shearon Harris Lake. […]

Winter reds will move into shallow water to avoid encounters with bottlenose dolphin, and they’ll actively feed.

G’town reds are on

Jeff Burleson

January can bring blustery conditions even to the south. But that doesn’t mean the redfish won’t be biting, and the backwaters around Georgetown are ground zero for winter reds. […]

Noah Lynk targets big speckled trout around the Cape Lookout rock jetty during winter.

Rock jetty is the ticket

Craig Holt

North Carolina winters often are unpredictable, but one spot doesn’t seem to be affected much by roller-coaster mercury readings: the Cape Lookout rock jetty. […]

Guide Rodger Taylor catches some of his biggest blue catfish of the year at Lake Wateree during the winter.

Winter Wateree means great action on blue catfish

Pat Robertson

Winter is a great time for catching blue catfish on South Carolina’s Lake Wateree, and it’s an excellent time for targeting trophy fish, according to guide Rodger Taylor of Rock Hill, S.C. […]

Guide Gus Gustafson catches Lake Norman’s winter crappie by fishing vertically around deep brush, bridge pilings and covered boat houses.

Lake Norman slabs are deep

Tony Garitta

Quality crappie can be caught in bitter, cold weather at Lake Norman with the use of visual aids. […]

Guide Mark Stacy looks for trout around Little River in deeper holes where the water temperature is stable and food is available.

State-line trout are hungry

Jeff Burleson

Falling closely behind redfish, speckled trout are one of the most sought-after inshore gamefish. While most anglers look to score a limit during the fall flurry, few visit the coast during the winter because the weather is too cold or the fish aren’t available. […]

LIVETARGET got things right when they introduced their new line of soft plastic swimbaits.

New swimbaits sure to raise eyebrows among anglers and fish

Brian Cope

Soft plastic swimbaits have been some of the top-producing fishing lures for bass during certain months over the last several years, and more recently, saltwater anglers have caught on to their effectiveness for speckled trout, redfish, and a number of other species. But a swimbait is a swimbait is a swimbait, right? I mean, all swimbaits are pretty much the same, aren’t they? […]