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June 23, 2026

Jim Crouse’s custom-made paddles can be both useful to paddlers and decorative to persons who appreciate the artful side of woodworking.

Just paddlin’ around

Next door to Pure Bubba, a tackle shop in Nichols, is a shop where Jim Crouse has been making custom paddles for anglers and collectors for more than 20 years. […]

South Carolina’s proactive sheepshead restrictions should protect the state’s fishery for years to come.

Size limits promote sustainability

Jeff Burleson

Sheepshead are foreign to some anglers and common to others. For those familiar with them, their courageous battles are memorable to say the least. […]

Danny Tracy emptied a cricket cage catching this great limit of Santee River bream.

Bring plenty of bait, really, plenty

Terry Madewell

Danny Tracy said that going though four cages of 100 crickets each isn’t unusual for a morning of fishing on the Santee River. […]

Keep topwater lures ready

Terry Madewell

Catching bream is the focal point for many anglers during June, but it’s not the full measure of great fishing on the Santee River. […]

Conservation easements can help landowners protect wild-rich rural habitat.

Easements provide immediate, long-term financial benefits

Jeff Burleson

The value that conservation easements bring to the table for the environment is massive, and landowners can earn financial rewards in more ways than one. […]

A different Santee drift rig

Terry Madewell

Guide Joe Dennis said the rig he uses to drift- fish for bream is a real key to success, and that paying attention to details such as line size can be crucial to catching many more big bream. […]

Casey Ashley fishes a popping bait from mid-morning, working it around any kind of shady cover and around bream beds he locates.

Pro fisherman Casey Ashley, the reigning Bassmaster Classic champion, loves his popper fishing. He’s particularly fond of the XCalibur Zell Pop, but even though the bait comes ready for action, Ashley makes a few adjustments to ensure he gets the performance he needs. […]

Targeting redfish doesn’t take a lot of expensive tackle, just a spinning outfit and a few basic lures.

Redfish tackle doesn’t have to break your bank

John Gribb

Anglers who normally fish with artificial lures can select a very good and reasonably priced spinning outfit that includes a medium weight, 6 1/2-foot spinning rod similar to Bass Pro Shops’ IM6 or IM7 Graphite Series and an open-faced spinning reel like the Shimano Saros 2500F. […]

Striper fishermen often use planer boards with live baits to help spread them out, away from the boat, and cover a wider swath of water.

Planer boards make trolling work

Taylor Pardue

It wouldn’t be possible or effective to run a trolling setup without planer boards on the outer lines. […]

A piece of cut blue crab is as good a bait for spring and summer reds as you can dunk in the water.

Be crabby when you can

John Gribb

Guide Dan Utley considers a chunk of a legal blue crab an ideal bait for fishing under a cork in high-water grass. […]