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July 12, 2026

A hatch of small, grass shrimp has pushed redfish in the Santee Delta to put on their feed bags.

Santee Delta redfish action has been great when conditions are right

Warmer weather has brought redfish out of their winter posture and into a feeding mode along the Santee Delta, but you’d better check the moon phase and water clarity, because it can determine whether a trip is a banner day or an epic fail. […]

Try the Dan, Yadkin rivers for prespawn smallmouth bass

Craig Holt

Try the Dan and Yadkin rivers for some great springtime smallmouth action. […]

Tackle boxes, Nets, etc.

David A. Brown

Winner of the Best Tackle Management award at ICAST 2013, this intuitively re-engineered bag features a molded top that holds a 3700, 3600 or 3500 ProLatch StowAway box in place with elastic straps. Remove the StowAway and you have a handy workspace for rigging tackle. […]

The Yamamoto Chikara is designed to run true right out of the box, and the attention to details — right down to the eyes — is stunning.

Chikara crankbaits

Don Shoopman

Bass fishermen are tying on a hot product from Gary Yamamoto Custom Baits. Surprisingly, it isn’t a soft plastic like the ever-popular Senko. In fact, it’s a hard bait with an attitude. […]

When boats out of Southport can get offshore, they've been greeted with excellent bottom-fishing.

Find a nice day and catch plenty of Cape Fear bottomfish

Jerry Dilsaver

Capt. Butch Foster of Yeah Right Charters in Southport said he hasn’t been able to get to the bottomfish off Cape Fear until he caught a calm, warm day recently and found that the fish were where they were supposed to be – and hungry, too. […]

Maurce Freeze's decision to fish muddy water turned out to be a rewarding one: more than $6,000 worth of rewards.

Concord fisherman strikes it rich at Badin Lake

Tony Garitta

Concord’s Maurice Freeze targeted the muddiest water he could find Saturday to win the Walmart Bass Fishing League Piedmont Division tournament at Badin Lake. […]

Rising water temperatures are getting redfish and trout in the Charleston area cranked up for the spring.

Rising water temperatures have Charleston reds, trout ready to bite

Glenn Corley

With water temperatures approaching the 60-dgree mark, Capt. Kevin Blair of Charleston Fish Rod Bending Company, had only one thing to say. “It’s about to bust wide open here.” […]

Jimmy and James Wall spanked Hyco Lake’s lunkers for a 5-fish total of 31.72 pounds.

Swimbaits, crankbaits produce huge catch of bass at Hyco Lake

Craig Holt

Jimmy and James Wall of Greensboro found an unusual fishing pattern on March 15 at Hyco Lake, a Duke Energy impoundment in Person County, and they landed one of the most impressive sacks of largemouth bass seen this spring in a Piedmont Bass Classic tournament. […]

Kevin Bissette of Fuquay-Varina caught this nice drum off the beach on a trip with Capt. Noah Lynk of Harkers Island.

Schools of red drum showing up in surf from Beaufort Inlet north

Jerry Dilsaver

Fishermen have been creative about finding ways to enjoy the stretches of pretty days between the bouts of harsh winter weather that have been bombarding the coast since Late January. […]

The jetties at Little River Inlet are producing plenty of nice redfish for Capt. Mark Stacy.

Little River jetties producing plenty of nice redfish

Jeff Burleson

Even though the shrimp left the waters around the Little River Inlet jetties many months ago, redfish there have little reservations about attacking a shrimp dangling right in front of their lips. […]