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Can you determine when trout are about to feed?

Expert tips will help trout fishermen

After decades of observing and studying, Lance Milks of Greensboro is an encyclopedia of trout knowledge. […]

Cape Lookout is a cobia trap

Cape Lookout is in the middle of some of North Carolina’s best waters to dial up a spring cobia. The hook that forms the cape serves almost as a landing net to hold millions of menhaden and cobia along their northern migration. […]

It’s time to target Lake Murray’s flatheads

Terry Madewell

According to guide Chris Simpson, flatheads are caught less frequently than Lake Murray’s other catfish species, but they’re still caught in reasonable numbers and excellent sizes. […]

Know the different grouper and snapper species — this one’s a scamp grouper — and make sure you know the most up-to-date regulations.

Know your bottomfish — or else

Chris Burrows

Since the reauthorization of the Magnuson Stevens Act in 2006, fishing regulations have changed at a rate never before seen, and nowhere more than in the Snapper/Grouper complex. […]

Jigging rigs need the best solid rings around

Chris Burrows

Fishermen tie an awful lot of rigs in an awful lot of different ways, and jigging is no different. Beginning jiggers are often unsure of the correct way to connect their terminal tackle. […]

Rods designed for bottom-jigging will bend all the way to the butt to enable anglers to put plenty of pressure on big fish.

The good ol’ Bimini twist is still the best

Chris Burrows

Anglers have devised a number of methods to create a double line, some easy to tie and some not. But there is probably not a more tried-and-true method of creating a loop than the venerable Bimini twist. […]

Swimbaits, like this one from LiveTarget, are luring more anglers and fish due to their lifelike appearance and swimming motion.

Make your lures match the hatch

Phillip Gentry

Many manufactures have lured a lot of fishermen to the sales counter with paint jobs and swimming action, but none has done it better in recent years than LiveTarget lures. […]

Sample the buffet line

Phillip Gentry

While many bass anglers don’t distinguish between threadfin shad and blueback herring when they refer to the “shad spawn,” knowing the differences between baitfish species could pay off at weigh-in time. Here’s a run-down of what prey species are likely to be sharing water with bass this month: […]

The proper way to hook a live shrimp for use on a float rig for speckled trout is by pushing one barb through just under the shimp’s horn.

Speckled trout: the people’s favorite

Jerry Dilsaver

Spotted seatrout, Cynoscion nebulosus — aka speckled trout or specks — are found in the surf from Hilton Head, S.C. to Corolla, N.C., and beyond. They gather in schools and feed on shrimp, minnows, smaller fish and crabs on the bottom and suspended in the water column. […]