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July 13, 2026

Brian Shinn loves to fish a Senko for shallow Tuckertown bass.

I thought it was water, but it’s ‘snot’

A major problem for anglers at Tuckertown Lake isn’t finicky fish but a disgusting, smelly, lure-fouling substance that covers most of the shoreline wood and rocks and the lake’s bottom. […]

Fishermen targeting Spanish mackerel in May often run into a cobia or two that are shadowing schools of baitfish.

Look for black submarines

Jeff Burleson

Nearshore waters fill up this month, with big pods of baitfish bringing in predators by the thousands. From bluefish to Spanish mackerel, the action can pick up in shallow-water places just outside of the breakers. […]

This chartreuse/green crankbait color became known around Yadkin system lakes as “Homer” after a fisherman, Homer Biesecker, who used it exclusively.

The story of the “Homer” color

Craig Holt

Bass fishermen are creatures not so much of habit but of expedience. Another way of saying that is, “If it works, don’t mess with it.” […]

Jason Burton pays close attention to current and trolling direction, and it pays off with better catches of Spanish mackerel.

Following directions

Jeff Burleson

Catching Spanish mackerel can seem very easy during the spring and summer when fish are mauling a school of menhaden or glass minnows. […]

Dennis Barbour has dozens of hooks and leaders ready because so many need to be replaced when flounder fishing around structure.

Hook holster

Mike Marsh

Capt. Dennis Barbour uses gold Kahle hooks when he fishes for flounder, and he makes up dozens of rigs before a trip. […]

Cobia that move into the Broad River to spawn each spring are a different sub-species from those that spawn offshore in deeper water.

Cobia facts

John Gribb

Cobia were recently added to the listing of gamefish by the S.C. Department of Natural Resources, joining spot-tail bass (red drum) and speckled trout. […]

Toby Grantham of Knightdale caught this potential state-record African pompano this past weekend on the Continental Shelf out of Morehead City.

Knightdale angler has another state record in his pocket

Brian Cope

Few anglers ever catch a state-record fish, but Toby Grantham of Knightdale has now done it twice. He caught the record scamp grouper two years ago on a trip aboard Capt. Dave Tilley’s Continental Shelf out of Morehead City, and last weekend, he caught a potential record African pompano on another trip with Tilley. […]

Spanish mackerel are being caught in good numbers off Cape Lookout.

Great Spanish mackerel bite kicking off Cape Lookout fishing

Jerry Dilsaver

Capt Noah Lynk of Noah’s Ark Charters in Harkers Island said there is a lot of fishy activity in the waters around Cape Lookout, with Spanish mackerel and bluefish are around the jetty, cobia cruising the waters inside and outside the hook and some flounder are starting to show on the bars and channel edges inside the hook. […]

Hilton Fulmer said that Lake Marion shellcrackers have really been biting over the past week.

Shellcrackers on the feed in a major way in upper Lake Marion

Terry Madewell

The shellcracker fishing in the upper end of Lake Marion is red hot, producing some of the best action in years, according to several experts, among them Hilton Fulmer from Summerton, who has been targeting shellcrackers on upper Lake Marion for 35 years. […]

Guide Maynard Edwards of Lexington said largemouth bass have moved out of the shallows and are headed to deep water.

All kinds of fish really biting at Badin

Craig Holt

Anglers anywhere in the Piedmont who are looking for a “reel good” time should try Badin Lake. Over the past week or so, fishing on the Yadkin River system’s oldest lake has been outstanding. […]