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Multiple strategies catching Lake Hartwell stripers

Anglers eager to feel the pull of some good fish can find just what they’re looking for on Lake Hartwell, where the striper bite is heating up with the weather. Smaller pockets of schools are scattered throughout the lake, and Capt. Seth Owens said that means anglers can catch them in a variety of ways, and in a variety of spots on the lake.

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Fishing

Go to the reef, in spades

That’s the fish right there that you want me to hook? I’m gonna yank him straight into the boat,” an angler told guide Robert McCarley one day last May, while fishing a nearshore reef out of Georgetown. […]

Cobia

New cobia regulations seek to rebuild South Carolina fishery

Responding to concerns from the public and data collected by S.C. Department of Natural Resources  biologists, the South Carolina General Assembly has passed legislation to help rebuild the state’s cobia fishery. The new cobia regulations, which are effective for the 2016 season after receiving Gov. Nikki Haley’s signature, include a catch-and-release period in May and smaller bag and boat limits. 

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