Freshwater Fishing
“High stick” technique
“High stick” technique for nymphing […]
Sidebars
Freshwater Fishing
Recognizing productive water
Choosing where to fish is as important as your fly selection; fishermen need to learn to “read the water.” […]
Ducks
Duck-banding info essential to managing waterfowl
Since 1940, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has managed national fish and wildlife populations and their habitat to protect and promote the resources. As part of those efforts, USFWS manages migratory birds jointly with Canada and Mexico, and to make educated, informed decisions, hunter input and band data must be included. […]
Flounder
It’s an all-night gig
It is not often that a recreational trip to procure fish begins well after dark. However, guide Allen Jernigan met a friend, Tony Rhodes, at a ramp in Sneads Ferry, N.C., at 9:30 p.m. […]
Sidebars
Shrimp rigs for trout
Like skinning a cat, there is more than one way to rig a live shrimp to catch speckled trout. The old standby is a length of leader beneath a stemmed popping cork, sometimes referred to as a rattling cork. Even with a popping cork, some anglers prefer to use a standard J-hook, while other may opt for a Kahle hook or circle hook and still others a jighead. […]
Sidebars
Five shrimp tricks to try on trout
Speckled trout eat shrimp throughout their life, starting as fry and continuing through the gator years.
[…]
Catfish
Trophy cats: a biological perspective
Chad Holbrook, a fisheries biologist for the S.C. Department of Natural Resources who oversees the Santee Cooper lakes, said biologists use winter gill-net sampling to assess blue catfish populations and, the data shows increasing catch rates from 2016 through 2018. […]
Catfish
A long-time trophy fishery
A 58-pound channel catfish was caught from Lake Moultrie in 1964, setting state and world records that still stand today. While the Santee Cooper lakes provide excellent fishing for numbers of channel catfish, the sizes are no longer extreme and are not typically considered trophy size, even for channel catfish. […]
Inshore Fishing
New kayak gear reviews
Mustang’s latest PFD […]
Deer Hunting
Island delights
Rivers and streams along the coastal plain and in the larger watersheds of the Piedmont and Midlands areas will have high hills within the river corridors, and these hills don’t always flood when everything else in the area is inundated. […]