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October 21, 2026

Redfish tailing on flood-tide flats are often located by their tail fin breaking the surface.

Target tailers on flood tides

A few days per month, the moon’s gravity bushes a few more inches of water into the estuaries on what are known as flood tides. […]

One nostalgic part of an opening day dove hunt at The Mill Pond Hunt Club is riding in a horse-drawn wagon to the fields.

Mill Pond has stayed rural despite the creep of development

Mike Marsh

The Mill Pond is an oasis of yesteryear amid the encroaching desert of modernity. […]

Moving water on the high end of the tide cycle is the ticket to running into numbers of nice speckled trout around Hilton Head Island.

Take a different angle around oysters

Brian Cope

Rick Percy’s surefire way of boating September speckled trout is by fishing oyster beds on an incoming tide, but he said a lot of other anglers approach these flats the wrong way. […]

A whitetail’s sense of smell is thought to be a thousand times more sensitive than a human’s, able to detect pheromones among common scents.

Before the rut arrives, bucks are confined to bachelor groups, traveling together and very close to groups of does. When the mating season begins, hormones fly, and the entire deer herd busts out of the frame, going out in all directions. […]

MidCoast’s Evolution popping cork is heavy enough to make it easy to cast in windy conditions.

How to pop off

Brian Cope

With all the popping corks on the market, it is tough to see how any of them are better or even different than the next, but guide Rick Percy said some are definitely more suited for his style of fishing. […]

Consider wearing hunter orange on your way to and from your deer stand during bow season as a measure of added safety precaution.

Bowhunting safety rules make sense

Bill Howard

North Carolina had its first fatal hunting accident that involved a bowhunter shooting another hunter by mistake last September. […]

Know when a trout’s a speck

Brian Cope

Fishermen in the Hilton Head area have three excellent nearshore reefs to fish that are close enough to the beach and close enough to each other to be visited in one trip: the Fish America Reef, the General Gordon and the Parris Island Reef. […]

Getting fall food plots in the ground by the first week of September will allow production of forage that will gives hunters a chance to take advantage of deer using the groceries through the fall hunting season.

Plant fall food plots early

Jeff Burleson

Throughout the Carolinas, September still feels like summer, and the only tasty foods available to deer are the soybeans and peanut crops on farms. […]