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July 13, 2026

Stripers and hybrids are headed up into Lake Hartwell's rivers and are beginning to hit topwater baits.

Topwater bite is on for Lake Hartwell stripers, hybrids

Lake Hartwell’s hybrid and striped bass have started to move up the rivers for their false spawning run and are hitting topwater lures, according to Capt. Steve Pietrykowski of Fishski Business Guide Service. […]

This flounder was fooled by the spinning of a weedless spoon designed for inshore casting.

Spoon feed inshore fish

Jerry Dilsaver

I don’t remember exactly when I became such a big fan of using spoons for inshore and nearshore fishing, but it was a good day and a great choice. […]

Lowell Brannan took a 30-minute saltwater sleigh ride before boating and releasing this blacktip shark near Beaufort.

The open ocean beckons

Phillip Gentry

As a student in high school, Ernest Hemingway’s The Old Man and The Sea was required reading. Without sounding unappreciative of classic literature, who wouldn’t love to be pulled around in a small boat by a massive blue marlin? […]

John Gornto won $100 for catching the first king mackerel off Ocean Crest Pier -- the first of 12 since Friday.

King mack attack begins on Ocean Crest Pier

Jerry Dilsaver

Vance Courson of Ocean Crest Pier on Oak Island said the king mackerel waited until May to make an appearance, but it didn’t take long once the calendar page flipped. […]

Candace Stanton of Conway has sampled some of the excellent fishing for dolphin off South Carolina's coast.

As water warms, dolphin action heats up off South Carolina coast

Jeff Burleson

For most of the spring season, Old Man Winter has kept on showing his ugly face – until now. But with temperatures creeping into the 80s, dolphin are beginning to show up off the South Carolina coast, and they’re biting. […]

Kathie Brown caught this Spanish mackerel on April 30 on the Ocean Crest Pier on Oak Island.

Oak Island fishing picking up; Spanish beginning to arrive

Jerry Dilsaver

Paul Anderson of Island Fishing Center in Oak Island said it appears spring has finally arrived and fishing is improving around the moth of the Cape Fear River. […]

Glenn Finley and Dodd Wood won the IFA Redfish Tour event in Charleston this past weekend, bagging almost $30,000 in cash and prizes.

South Carolina anglers take all of the top spots in IFA Charleston tournaments

South Carolina Sportsman

South Carolina fishermen dominated both halves of an IFA Redfish doubleheader this past weekend in Charleston, with Glenn Finley and Dodd Wood of Belton winning the IFA Redfish Tour’s Atlantic Division event on Saturday and David Jaskiewicz, of Wando winning the IFA Kayak Fishing Tour event the next day. […]

Plenty of big cobia stay around nearshore reefs, never moving into the Port Royal Sound or Broad River during the annual run.

Leave the cobia crowd

Bryan Bowers

Every spring, especially in May, boats and anglers literally line up in the Broad River in hopes of catching a cobia. […]

Stanton McDuffie (left), a former N.C.State BassPack member, and Todd Nixon, a SGM from Pinehurst and Fort Bragg, display their three bass at the Warriors on the Water tournament at Jordan Lake.

Ninth Warriors on the Water tournament draws 150 angler teams to Jordan Lake

Craig Holt

The ninth annual Warriors on the Water Bass Tournament – the idea came from three military retirees – drew 150 two-man teams last Friday at Jordan Lake, with 2013 winners Will Blanton of Fayetteville and Cory Kidwell of Alariogordo, N.M., defending their title with a 5-bass limit that weighed 20.13 pounds and included the day’s big fish, a 7.60-pounder. […]

To prevent discards of red drum caught in large-mesh gill nets next month, the N.C. Division of Marine fisheries has ordered that commercial gear out of all inshore waters on Monday.

Fisheries group wants red drum re-opened, gets only gill-net closure instead

Jerry Dilsaver

Banned from selling red drum until at least September because of overharvest, commercial fishermen in North Carolina requested on Tuesday that the N.C. Division of Marine Fisheries reopen the commercial season on a limited basis after taking nets out of the water for the rest of May. […]