Featured Story
Big red drum waiting at Cape Hatteras
Two times each year — spring and fall — surf anglers can cast baited bottom rigs with Hatteras Heavers at “old” (big) red drum at North Carolina’s central and northern beaches. […]
Fishing
Featured
Badin’s big blues are biting
Chris Hammill said it wasn’t a sure thing, but he felt pretty certain he could put his party on some big Badin Lake blue catfish if he had a full day to do so. […]
Bass Fishing
Lake Norman fish won’t be state-record spotted bass
It was a big fish and a nice catch for Surry County angler Terry Trivette. It was not, however, the new spotted bass state record. […]
Featured
King mackerel trip produces huge wahoo for Bolivia fisherman
Tim Rayl of Bolivia has caught just about every fish available to be caught between inshore and offshore waters, but the almighty wahoo had eluded him most of his adult life.
Until April 14.
[…]
Featured
Santee Cooper bream already heating up
Nothing says springtime like bream fishing, and opportunities for catching these tasty panfish are plentiful, especially on Santee Cooper’s Lake Marion. […]
Featured
South Edisto spits out huge flathead catfish
A lot of people think that big fish only get that way in big waters. Dennis Reilly of Bamberg knows better now, but until recently he had no idea how big of a fish could live in the relatively small waters of the South Edisto River in his home county.
Checking his set lines on the morning of April 7, Reilly was pleased to discover that many nice catfish had taken his baits, but especially a 67-pound flathead that had swallowed a bait.
[…]
Featured
South Carolina man wins fishing school grand prize
Brent Dilendik travelled a long way from Aiken, S.C., to attend North Carolina Sportsman’s Saltwater Fishing School last month at the Cape Fear Wildlife Expo in Wilmington, N.C.
Now, he’s got to make an even longer trip.
[…]
Bass Fishing
Yadkin lakes see start of striped-bass spawn
With late spring-like weather spreading over the state a month earlier than usual during March, higher-than-normal water temperatures apparently triggered striped bass false migration runs in many piedmont rivers.
The migration attempts are false because stripers have only two rivers (Dan and Roanoke) inside North Carolina long enough to successfully hatch fertilized eggs — yet rockfish are hard-wired to make whoopee anyway each spring no matter where they are. […]
Featured
Does Clemson team have home-field advantage in FLW College Fishing National Championships?
How much advantage will local fishermen Andy Wicker of Pomaria and Harold Turner have when the FLW College Fishing National Championship opens Friday on Lake Murray? […]
Bass Fishing
Full moon, warm weather has several patterns working for bass on Murray, Wateree
The full moon coupled with unseasonably warm weather has three different patterns currently working on bass in Lakes Wateree and Murray. […]