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July 21, 2026

Previous page: Look for white marlin in offshore areas full of bait but lacking in appreciable current. Below: Smaller baits are the ticket to hooking up with an acrobatic white marlin during the late-summer run off North Carolina’s Outer Banks.

How to rig a circle hook for white marlin

Small ballyhoo or “dink baits” fished with a circle hook through the nose are extremely effective at drawing strikes from white marlin off North Carolina’s coast. […]

Mike Popovich puts the tape on a sand tiger shark that measured almost 8 feet and was caught at night, when serious shark fishermen really like to head to the surf.

Fishermen don’t lure sharks to the shoreline, they catch fish that are already there

Brian Cope

Stan Warren, who founded Requiem Fishing, said his crew does everything it can to avoid fishing around swimmers — including fishing mostly at night — and he emphasized that his anglers are not drawing the sharks into an area, just catching the ones already there. […]

Tiger sharks are common in waters just off South Carolina beaches and are often hooked and landed by surf fishermen.

Fish sharks’ travel corridors

Brian Cope

When fishing for big sharks from the beach, South Carolina anglers have a lot of choices from Little River to Hilton Head Island. […]

Guide Joel Richardson said the bass fishing at Randleman Reservoir has been as hot as the August weather.

Even the heat can’t stop Randleman bass from biting

Craig Holt

No matter how sweltering the heat is in August, one Piedmont lake features a bass bite that just won’t quit, come morning, afternoon or evening. […]

Black drum of all sizes are suckers for live shrimp or pieces of fresh-cut shrimp.

Black drum bite remains great in waters around Ocean Isle

Jerry Dilsaver

Capt. Mark Stacy of Ocean Isle Fishing Charters said much of the fishing in the creeks and marshes of lower Brunswick County has been unpredictable this summer, but the black drum bite has been freakishly consistent. […]

The Fly Fishing Museum of the Southern Appalachians has opened in Cherokee.

Fly-fishing museum has opened in Cherokee

North Carolina Sportsman

The Fly Fishing Museum of the Southern Appalachians opened last week in Cherokee, giving visitors a chance to learn about the history of fly-fishing in the Southeast. […]

Guide William Sasser said the crawfish/hydrilla on Clarks Hill Lake bite for striped bass, hybrids and catfish has been a little late this summer, but has finally come on and is one of the most consistent of the year.

Clarks Hill’s “crawfish bite” for stripers, hybrids has finally kicked in

Phillip Gentry

Fishing weed lines is a no-brainer up north, but few anglers realize that sprawling Clarks Hill Reservoir on the Savannah River along the South Carolina/Georgia border also has plenty of weeds, in the form of hydrilla, that attract tons of fish – particularly striped bass and hybrids. […]

Fishing small, backcountry streams is the key to successful, late-summer fishing.

Adapt for August trout

Robert Satterwhite

Late-summer trout fishing requires a slow hand, patience and endurance. Hatches are fewer, and as water temperatures rise, trout seek cooler places in streams: undercut or overgrown banks and deep pools. […]

More than two dozen kayak anglers participated in a challenge involving three South Carolina kayak-fishing clubs in mid-June.

Paddling up some fun

Phillip Gentry

What started out as a planning meeting for one kayak fishing club ended up being a fun “challenge” event that has not only turned the state’s individual kayak clubs into one brotherhood, it was also a lot of fun. […]

Using a double-dropper rig, a dry fly in tandem with a nymph, is an effective way to target summer trout in mountain streams.

Tandem rigs will double your pleasure when fishing for mountain trout

Craig Holt

Mountain trout don’t act that differently from other freshwater species. They try to hang out in an area protected from the current, and they don’t want to have to work that hard to feed. […]