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July 3, 2026

Cover: January 2012 (NC) – Fishing

Read about big bucks and where the red drum are biting this month in North Carolina Sportsman. […]

When buying hard baits, make sure you buy baits that will run to different depths, especially the ones you’ll spend the most time fishing.

’Tis the season to be jolly

Lots of fishermen look at January as a time when they can step back and take a month completely off from fishing — winterizing your boat, cleaning your tackle, then sitting back and watching pro football playoffs and college basketball on TV. […]

Chad Hastings was the big winner at the Berkley/Sebile Big Bass Challenge on Lake Murray in late October.

Grooms just misses berth

Glenn Corley

Wade Grooms of Bonneau finished second at the Bassmaster Weekend Series national championship on the Santee Cooper lakes on Nov. 9-12, missing the winner’s berth in the Bassmasters Classic by less than a pounds. […]

Capt. Jimmy Price shares some of the finer points of flounder fishing at a fishing school in Greenville last year.

It is now, Showtime!

Jerry Dilsaver

Hopefully this January is not as frigid as the previous two, but it should still be a good time for fishermen and boaters to begin their annual dream-fest for tackle, electronics, boats, motors and new fishing ideas for the year. […]

Chris Brown and David Wright of Lexington won the Yadkin Team Tournament Fish-Off on High Rock Lake.

Apex angler is BFL winner

Tony Garitta

Richard Szczerbala of Apex won the Oct. 20-22 Walmart BFL regional on Tenneesse’s Lake Chickamauga out of Chattanooga. […]

Anglers are catching big speckled trout at Wilmington-area inlets.

Angler finds specks and reds in some unusual places

Craig Holt

Mild winter weather at the N.C. coast has meant good fishing days and spotted seatrout for most anglers. […]

SCDNR recovers yellowfin tuna tag for first time

SCDNR News Release

A yellowfin tuna tagged nine years ago off the South Carolina coast was caught last year along West Africa near Mauritania, the South Carolina Department of Natural Resources has learned. […]

Washington guide Richard Andrews displays a 7-pound striped bass that hit a three-arm Alabama rig in Blounts Creek.

Washington guide applies Alabama rig to stripers

Craig Holt

WASHINGTON, N.C. — When the Alabama rig exploded on the bass fishing scene in mid October after veteran BASS angler Paul Elias of Mississippi used it to win a pro tournament at Lake Guntersville, Ala., many anglers immediately saw it had other applications. […]

The recreational shallow-water grouper season is scheduled to begin its annual four-month closure on Jan. 1. It is projected that commercial fishermen will reach their allocation of gag grouper, like the one pictured, before then, so the commercial season

Recreational shallow-water grouper season to close on Jan. 1

Jerry Dilsaver

Just after the ball hits bottom in Times Square on New Year’s Eve, recreational fishermen across the Southeast Atlantic will add shallow-water grouper to the growing list of offshore bottom species that are off limits. […]

Capt. Ben Alderman wrestles a hefty red to the boat at low tide. Alderman seeks out deeper holes of water where reds will congregate when the tide drops. Note exposed oyster rocks.

Flat-out Reds

Terry Madewell

Anglers who haven’t sampled the hot redfish action at Charleston during the cold month of December have missed a big part of an excellent fishery. […]