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When it comes to catfish bait, the sky is the limit

Catfish love to eat some of the stinkiest bait you’ll ever want to handle, but they’ll also eat fruit and even soap. […]

Chunks of bar soap, grapes, slices of apples and blackberries are among the interesting baits that a South Carolina anglers uses when targeting catfish.

Imagination is everything when it comes to catfish baits

Brian Cope

Many hardcore catfish anglers have favorite baits they swear by over all others. A variety of live baits, cut baits, stinkbaits and homemade concoctions are on the list of baits many outdoorsmen use to pursue Mr. Whiskers, but Mike Spinks of Sumter, S.C., has branched out in other directions when searching for the perfect catfish bait. […]

Deep holes in Murrells Inlets backwaters have been producing nice flounder in recent days.

Cooler water in deep holes is holding lots of Murrells Inlet flounder

Brian Cope

Recent rainfall has brought a slight cooling to the waters of Murrells Inlet over the past few days, and that has turned on the flounder bite, mostly in the deeper holes from one end of the inlet to the other. […]

John Alden Knight’s Solunar Tables provide predictions for when game and fish will be most active based on moon phases.

Get your moon table on

Jerry Dilsaver

Would you like to better understand fish and their feeding habits? Maybe even get a leg up on your buddies so you tear them up the next time you go fishing together? […]

Blacktip sharks are a big summer treat for anglers wanting to tangle with big fish without spending hours heading offshore.

Take a bite of a blacktip

Brian Cope

August is one of the hottest months of the year, and with the heat, a good deal of fishing slows down. Many gamefish feed for very short periods of time and then find cool spots to lay low in throughout the heat of the day. […]

A suit brought by two North Carolina commercial fishing groups over sea turtles has been dismissed by a federal judge.

Commercials’ suit over sea turtles dismissed by federal judge

Jerry Dilsaver

Judge James C. Dever has dismissed a lawsuit by the N.C. Fisheries Association (NCFA) and Carteret County Fisherman’s Association (CCFA) to challenge how gill-net fishing is regulated in areas where sea turtles are present. […]

Wyn Mullins enjoys catches like this of big, bull bream in the Cooper River through the summer.

Learn this four-letter word for catching big Cooper River bream: deep

Terry Madewell

August may not rate high as prime time to catch bull bream, but it may be time to do some deep thinking and reconsider. […]

North Carolina's first-ever tarpon landed on a fly rod was taken in the lower Cape Fear River last weekend.

North Carolina’s first-ever tarpon on fly is landed in lower Cape Fear River

Jerry Dilsaver

This past Saturday, Aug. 1, a fisherman caught and released what is being heralded as the first tarpon confirmed to have been caught on fly-fishing tackle in North Carolina waters. […]

Dark-colored flies worked at the surface have been producing a lot of North Inlet redfish just after dawn for fly-fishing anglers.

Daylight topwater bite has North Inlet fly-fishing anglers rising early for reds

Jeff Burleson

As the summer heat continues to pound South Carolina, the fall cool-down can’t arrive soon enough. […]

Guide Rick Bennett said flounder are becoming the No. 1 inshore catch for many fishermen in the Carolina Beach and Wrightsville Beach areas.

Flounder numbers, sizes on the increase in Wrightsville, Carolina Beach areas

Jerry Dilsaver

Flounder have slowly but surely made their way to the top of the mixed bag of fish caught in the summer heat around Wrightsville Beach and Carolina Beach, according to Rick Bennett of Rod-Man Guide Service, with numbers of fish increasing and fish getting bigger. […]