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June 17, 2026

Ryan McMurtury cut his teeth fishing on Lake Russell, where he learned techniques that helped him win the 2010 Bassmaster Weekend Series national championship.

Classic berth was ‘no fluke’ for McMurtury

Ryan McMurtury has been known as a great bass fisherman around Abbeville and the Lake Russell area for years, but it was not until 2010 that he got much outside recognition. […]

Golden tilefish rigs consist of a 2-pound weight and a single, 12/0 to 18/0 circle hook.

Biggest recorded fish kill involved tiles

Bob Goldstein

Golden tilefish suffered the largest-recorded Atlantic fish kill in March 1882, when billions were killed by an easterly shift of the Gulf Stream, chilling them in their habitat at the edge of the Continental Shelf where they had always been protected by warm Gulf waters. […]

The Fish Grip by United Plastic Molders is a great addition to your kayak arsenal. When you get one, it becomes one of those kayak accessories you don’t know how you lived without.

Get A Grip

Phillip Gentry

Space for gear when fishing from a kayak is at a premium. Anglers frequently find themselves doing without or making do with what they have because they don’t have room for all the equipment that is taken for granted in a larger vessel. […]

Protecting a tiny area in each food plot from wildlife browsing will enable land managers to better gauge the effectiveness of fertilizer application and herbicide treatments.

It’s not too late to establish control areas

Jeff Burleson

Spring food plots should be coming up strong now, with deer and other wildlife beginning to show up regularly. […]

Too many fire ants in a farm-pond fish’s diet can be fatal. Treat fire-ant beds with an insecticide as soon as they are located.

Grow Big Fish: Kill fire ants

Jeff Burleson

During the summer, fish eat about everything they can find. Small bream and juvenile bass must stay close to cover in hopes of eluding the larger bass, but all fish will be looking to eat whatever closely resembles food. […]

Fifteen inches makes a flounder a keeper anywhere along North Carolina’s coastline.

Regs much easier to understand

Dan Kibler

North Carolina’s flounder regulations have become far more simplified in past years; statewide, flatfish are managed with a six-fish daily creel limit and a 15-inch size minimum. […]

Sunflowers need to be planted soon to be up and mature in time for the Labor Day weekend dove-season opener.

Get that dove food in the ground soon for early hunts

Jeff Burleson

With the exception of South Carolina’s Aug. 15 deer season in the Lowcountry, Labor Day weekend is the official beginning of hunting season in the Carolinas. […]

Hot rod for Congaree fishing

Phillip Gentry

Another aspect of Paul Davis’ version of “City Limits Fishing” that would definitely be “Ike-approved” is his choice of rods. […]

Mark Crawford finds numbers of fish on the lower end of Clarks Hill Lake, but he looks up the lake, toward the Lake Russell tailrace, when he’s after a big fish.

Trophy fishing

Phillip Gentry

The choice between numbers and size is an easy one for Mark Crawford when he’s targeting big fish in a striped bass tournament. […]

The concept of a spring season is to allow hunting only after the first round of mating has occurred.

Turkey seasons set for biological reasons

Craig Holt

Retired turkey biologist Mike Seamster said the angst today among many Tarheel State turkey hunters is caused because “they’re scouting before the season starts and hearing gobblers, so that’s when they want the season to open.” […]