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June 23, 2026

Trolling motors enable fishermen to operate from the bow in shallow water, unlike having to pole from a platform.

Stop poling and start trolling

Mike Taylor uses a 36-volt Minn Kota trolling motor with a remote-control piloting device when he is fishing for red drum in shallow water. […]

Hunting

Taking it one more step

L. Woodrow Ross

For years, Bob Cathey ran a farm in Anderson, but in 1998, he went into a different kind of farming, one that seems a natural extension to the Cathey family’s love of hunting. […]

A shallow-water anchoring device makes stopping your boat almost immediately when you contact fish a big weapon in the marshes.

Minn Kota’s Talon is a shallow-water anchoring system that makes it easy to stop the boat when an angler hooks a fish. This type of anchoring system is a staple on redfish tournament boats because it is so effective. […]

Wild hogs are a popular species across South Carolina; they can be taken on WMAs while hunting for other species using legal weapons.

Hog and coyote hunting on WMAs

Terry Madewell

Several WMAs provide hunters with opportunities to harvest hogs, and some are very good, according to Derrell Shipes of SCDNR. […]

Making sure your weapon is hitting where it’s supposed to should be a prerequisite before going afield this fall.

Getting ol’ Betsy in shape

Jeff Burleson

Over the next three months, deer hunters in the Carolinas will carry an arsenal of weapons into the woods to bring venison back to the dinner table. […]

South Carolina and Georgia have upped the stocking rates of striped bass in Lake Hartwell after last year’s fish kill.

No repeat of last year

Phillip Gentry

Lake Hartwell anglers may recall the lake’s first recorded fish kill last summer. After copious amounts of rain, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, which controls the lake’s level, was forced to spill water over the emergency gates and then later siphoned off deeper layers to control the flooding. […]