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September 13, 2026

Diving gulls and other birds can disclose the location of feeding schools of trout that are pushing bait and shrimp to the surface.

For the birds

Fall is a bad time to be a shrimp or a baitfish, but the bait buffet feeds more than just finned predators lurking below the surface. […]

A hopper-dropper right with a big topwater plug and soft-plastic trailer fished on a short leader is a killer fall rig for speckled trout.

Fish a dropper

Jeff Burleson

The hopper-dropper rig is a very popular technique used across the nation to catch trout, but it is usually for the freshwater version swimming in the fast-flowing streams in the mountains. […]

Fishermen have literally thousands of places to fish for trout in the waters around Georgetown, but guide Jordan Pate concentrates on shorelines with plenty of oyster shells close to deep water.

Watch out for October winter blast

Jeff Burleson

A lot of things can happen in October, but the most-drastic game changer is the weather; it can be hot like summer or bone chilling the next day. […]

The horizontal orientation of the hook on Betts’ Flounder Fanatic jig heads allows the fish to get the hook in its mouth more easily.

Fanatic is flounder unfriendly

Phillip Gentry

The correct bait for flounder fishing is, well, a live mud minnow, mullet, menhaden or even larger baitfish, or any one of a number of soft-plastic baits that can be threaded onto a jighead or a swimbait hook. […]

The premier bass fishing tournament series is coming to Georgetown in April 2016.

Bassmaster Elite Series coming to Georgetown in 2016

Brian Cope

The Bassmaster Elite series is coming to Georgetown in 2016. This will be the first stop ever for the Elite Series, and Georgetown has been making improvements to the Carroll A. Campbell Marine Complex on the Sampit River over the past several years, hoping for such an event in the near future. […]

Berkley’s Cutter is a jerkbait that comes in three different sizes.

Try these 6 crankbaits for late October bass

David Fritts

October is the best month of the year to fish a crankbait for bass. Fish will be on sharp drops, and a lot of them will have moved up into that 7- to 10-foot range, especially toward the end of the month. Y […]

Retired guide Don Drose said cloudy fall days are best for striper schooling action.

October is for everyone

Terry Madewell

October gets a lot of love in the Santee Cooper area, and not all of it has to do with fishing. […]

Doormat flounder are plentiful on the wrecks and reefs nearshore of Carolina and Kure Beach.

Top 4 tips to catch more flounder

Brian Cope

Take a horse-carriage tour through Wilmington and you’ll learn that no Civil War battles took place in the city; the battle for this town happened on the ocean. […]

This 8-point buck was spotted swimming more than 1/2-mile offshore out of Carolina Beach.

Went on a fishing trip and a deer hunt broke out

Brian Cope

Capt. Dennis Barbour of Island Tackle and Hardware was heading to a nearshore reef to do a little fishing when he encountered a deer swimming far from shore. […]

Choosing the right equipment and using the proper technique can take your crankbait fishing to a new level.

5 tips for crankbait fishing

Brian Cope

Crankbaits are great baits for largemouth bass, and the fall is a great time to use them. These lures don’t require any special techniques when reeling them in, they cover lots of water quickly, and crankbaits are available to cover any water depths. […]