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June 29, 2026

Best bets for shallow-water winter bass are from 7 to 9 a.m. Bass usually move into deeper water by mid-morning.

Steam Machine

From mid-February through mid-March, bass fishing often grinds almost to a halt in North Carolina because of cold weather. […]

Matthew Outlaw has learned well from his father’s crappie-fishing tutelage. He regularly brings platter-sized slabs out of Sparkleberry Swamp.

Southern Ice Fishing

Phillip Gentry

Fishermen are known to be opportunists. They’re always on the look out for something new, something to give them that edge to catch more and bigger fish. […]

Early-Rising River Specks

Phillip Gentry

Roughly the same size as a golf ball, you’d think a popping cork would be easier to keep up with. […]

Keys to Keowee

Andy Crawford

Marty Robinson was working a Lake Keowee cove in late March, picking bass off docks along the bank. He hadn’t limited yet, but he had a solid average going. […]

Not So Fast!

Jerry Dilsaver

As Capt. Fred Rourk cautiously poled towards the nervous water created by a school of feeding redfish, the concerns over the time spent locating them were immediately forgotten. […]

Speckled trout narrowly avoided cold-weather die-offs in an extremely cold January 2010.

Seminars show off experts’ best tactics

Jeff Dennis

When Capt. George Poveromo came to Charleston in January for his annual Saltwater Sportsman Seminar Series, he was sure to ask “old salt” Don Hammond to help run the show. […]

A lipless crankbait is a great tool for bass fishermen in the late winter and early spring; you can fish them fast and still catch fish, even if the water is fairly cool.

Lipless baits are winners in March

Davy Hite

Most of the fishermen I know in South Carolina recognize that March is a great month to be on the water, and to really take advantage of the bass-fishing opportunities out there, they know they need to have a crankbait tied on. […]