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Docks with plenty of pilings, cables, cleaning tables and shade will often hold more flounder than others.

What’s up, dock?

Many docks hold fish, and there are thousands of docks along the Intracoastal Waterway and the rivers and creeks that intersect it. […]

Trolling motors enable fishermen to operate from the bow in shallow water, unlike having to pole from a platform.

Stop poling and start trolling

Mike Marsh

Mike Taylor uses a 36-volt Minn Kota trolling motor with a remote-control piloting device when he is fishing for red drum in shallow water. […]

A shallow-water anchoring device makes stopping your boat almost immediately when you contact fish a big weapon in the marshes.

Minn Kota’s Talon is a shallow-water anchoring system that makes it easy to stop the boat when an angler hooks a fish. This type of anchoring system is a staple on redfish tournament boats because it is so effective. […]

Location, location, location

Jerry Dilsaver

Much like for a successful business, the key to productive offshore bottom-fishing is being in the right location. Once the preferred, rock, wreck or reef is found, the captain must anchor so the boat is positioned just right to get the baits down to the fish. Bottomfish are very specific to their chosen structure, and missing it by even a few feet will result in a lot of waiting rather than catching. […]

Black sea bass regulations differ between waters north and south of Cape Hatteras, just one example of bottomfish regulations that are somewhat complex and often confusing.

A plethora of piscatorial regulations

Jerry Dilsaver

Regulations for offshore bottomfish species are complex and include several closed seasons and several seasons that close when the annual allocation is caught. […]

Crappie fishermen have dozens of styles and hundreds of colors from which to choose.

A jig is a jig is a jig, right? Wrong!

Dan Kibler

A fishermen could get overwhelmed or confused looking at the selection of crappie jigs in a tackle shop — or in Danny Sisson’s tackle box. […]

Federal fisheries managers will close the recreational season on several species of porgies, including this knobbed porgy, on Wednesday, Sept. 17, because of overharvest.

Feds will close recreational season on several porgy species on Sept. 17

Jerry Dilsaver

Federal fisheries managers announced last Friday that the recreational season for a number of species in the popular porgy family will close on Wednesday, Sept. 17 and not reopen until Jan. 1, 2015. […]

A fish kill took place the weekend of Sept. 6 on Lake Hartwell close to the Anderson Regional Joint Water Authority's intact facility on Six & Twenty Creek.

Localized fish kill confirmed on Hartwell after chemical treatment of water

Phillip Gentry

The S.C. Department of Natural Resources has confirmed a fish kill on Lake Hartwell that took place the weekend of Sept. 6 near the water intake facility operated by the Anderson Regional Join Water Authority a few days after chemical treatments of water in an attempt to battle algae blooms believed to be responsible for poor taste and water quality that has plagued Anderson County residents this summer. […]

The N.C. Division of Marine Fisheries attempted to close a loophole that allowed commercial fishermen to sell more red drum than daily limits allowed. Whether the loophole has been completely sealed remains to be seen.

Latest attempt to curtail commercial sale of red drum may have hit snag

Craig Holt

An attempt by the N.C. Marine Fisheries Commission to curtail the sale of over-limit red drum by commercial netters lost a lot of its punch last week when officials with the N.C. Division of Marine Fisheries determined that new restrictions might very well violate state statutes. […]