Freshwater Fishing
The Bait Pump
Adding scent to crappie jigs has always made sense, but problems are often encountered by the methods of application. […]
Fishing
Inshore Fishing
Rule of Twelfths
The Rule of Twelfths is a guideline for determining where the tide is in the rise and fall cycle and how swiftly the current is running. […]
Freshwater Fishing
Carolina Crappie Association
Crappie fishing circles have seen a dwindling in size and scope of the national tournaments that used to regularly make stops in the Carolinas. […]
Freshwater Fishing
If you build it …
Many crappie fishermen make it a routine when fishing slows down in the winter to start creating habitat that will hold fish in warmer seasons. […]
Inshore Fishing
Working with Beaufort area tides
The tidal change in the Beaufort area is one of the more extreme along the entire southeastern coastline. The average high tide exceeds seven feet, and the highest projected for March is 8.5 feet. […]
Freshwater Fishing
How to shoot docks for crappie
The art of shooting docks is a skill no crappie angler should be without. Shooting a jig allows the angler to present a bait well back under a boat dock or other overhead structure that couldn’t otherwise be reached. […]
Bass Fishing
Prespawn Explosion — March is a great month for a Lake Murray bass-fishing trip
As far as Ben Lee of Columbia is concerned, there is no better month to fish on Lake Murray than March. […]
Bass Fishing
Time to crank ’em up
Across South Carolina, March is a tremendous month to get on some really big bass, and I try to take advantage of every chance I’ve got to get on the water. […]
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Pole Dance — Ease up on Topsail Beach’s shallow-water red drum for great fishing opportunities
Capt. Lee Parsons does most of his fishing along North Carolina’s coast from a large, center-console boat, but when he pulled up to the Turkey Creek boating access area near Holly Ridge in Onslow County, he backed a 21-foot, flat-bottomed skiff down the ramp. […]
Bass Fishing
The changing nature of Lake Murray
Tales of honey holes that produce all the time on Lake Murray are hard to come by these days because, according to Hal Beard, a fisheries biologist with the S.C. Department of Natural Resources, who said the nature of the lake has changed. […]