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September 27, 2026

Crested floating heart is an exotic plant that can grow quickly, shade out native vegetation and take over a lake system.

More good than bad

January begins a new year and is a great month to discuss the overall condition of our lakes, especially since it seems to be very good and improving. […]

Bryan Goodwin admires an over-slot redfish caught in the waters around Harkers Island last January.

Code Red Winter!

Craig Holt

It was evident from the start of the cold January morning at the public ramp next to the Harkers Island Bridge that Bryan Goodwin probably was an extraordinary saltwater fishing guide. […]

A dark bottom will draw heat from the sun and warm surrounding areas, attacting redfish for comfort or for the crustacaens that are buried in the bottom.

Warm, mud creatures draw reds shallow

Craig Holt

Besides avoiding porpoises in winter, red drum like shallow water — especially water over a dark muddy bottom — for two other reasons. […]

Porpoises are the major predators that red drum have to worry about during the winter, partially because the cold weather drives most baitfish out of inshore waters and into the ocean, while the porpoises stay in the flat water all winter.

Reds try to avoid ‘baby killer whales’

Craig Holt

To most people, it’s a mystery why red drum, especially slot-size and just above-slot (18 to 27 inches long), mass into huge schools during the winter in inshore waters along the coast. […]

North Carolina's state-record bluefin is this 805-pound fish.

Commercial fishermen pursue bluefin tuna in the Atlantic, Pacific and Indian oceans. Bringing as much as $100 per pound at wholesale auctions, they represent the gold bar, the dollar and the euro rolled into one. […]

Giant bluefin tuna bring top dollar on the international market; fishermen in the Mediterranean net juveniles, keep them in holding pens and feed them to giant size in a year.

Tuna farming

Bob Goldstein

Big fatty fish bring the highest prices at market, and small bluefins are of low value. […]

Ivan Morris, who has a home on Lake Gaston, learned how to fish the Alabama Rig from members of N.C. State’s ‘BassPack’ fishing team.

Alabama rig explores new bassin’ territory

Craig Holt

Since bass pro Paul Elias won a national bass tournament in Alabama a few months ago with a revolutionary freshwater fishing lure, the “Alabama rig” has attracted extreme attention from bass fishermen across the nation. […]

The SCDNR has proposed a 10-fish daily creel limit and a 12-inch (fork length) size minimum for sheepshead.

A-Countin’ Sheep

Phillip Gentry

Biologists in South Carolina are coming to grips with the responsibility of regulating sheepshead in state waters, thanks to federal fisheries managers turning that task over to individual states. […]

Chris Nichols shows off the kind of blue catfish Lake Wylie is producing.

Lake of the Month: Lake Wylie

Dan Kibler

Rarely do fishermen discuss Lake Wylie in the same revered terms used for other reservoirs in the Carolinas: Kerr (Buggs Island), Jordan, Santee Cooper, Clarks Hill. […]

The author shows off a nice redfish that fell for a scented soft-plastic bait the week after Christmas 2010 in Hilton Head’s Broad Creek.

Chilled Reds on the Menu

Jerry Dilsaver

The crunch of footsteps on a heavy frost at Shelter Cove Marina was something you don’t expect to hear on Hilton Head Island, but it was slippery enough for fishermen who moves slowly and carefully loading their gear into Capt. Steve Ranney’s bay boat. […]