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Capt. Buddy Bizzell and his first mate, Paul Quinn, caught this St. Helena Sound cobia on a tide change, the key window for boating cobia in recent days.

Fish the tide changes for St. Helena Sound cobia

Cobia have moved into St. Helena Sound, and anglers are catching them by fishing a variety of cut baits on the bottom. […]

The N.C. Wildlife Resources Commission has scheduled nine public forums across the state to discuss deer management.

Commission plans nine public forums next month to discuss deer hunting

NCWRC Release

The N.C. Wildlife Resources Commission will hold nine public forums across the state in June to discuss deer management. […]

A women's only fly-fishing clinic is scheduled for June 13 in Fayetteville.

Commission schedules women’s fly-fishing clinic for June 13 in Fayetteville

NCWRC Release

Space remains for a one-day fly-fishing workshop for women only at the John E. Pechmann Fishing Education Center in Fayetteville on June 13, from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. […]

SCDNR has two kids fishing rodeos and two family fishing clinics scheduled across the state in June.

SCDNR schedules youth fishing rodeos, family fishing clinics for June

South Carolina Sportsman

The S.C. Department of Natural Resources has two youth fishing rodeos and three family fishing clinics scheduled around the state for June. […]

Cobia have arrived off the Grand Strand in numbers enough to excite charter captains.

Cobia make first appearance off Grand Strand; Murrells Inlet captains cash in

Jeff Burleson

Fishermen who have been waiting impatiently for the cobia to show up along the coast will not have to wait any more. […]

The nearshore waters between Cape Lookout and Bogue Inlet have been full of chunky cobia over the past week.

Atlantic Beach cobia bite has gone off the chain this week

Jerry Dilsaver

Matt Lamb at Chasin’ Tails Outdoors in Atlantic Beach said the spring cobia bite has ramped up to absolutely wide open in the past few days, with fish cruising bait pods, searching just outside the breakers and feeding on the bottom of channels everywhere from Cape Lookout to Bogue Inlet. […]

South Carolina turkey hunters will have a longer season but a lower bag limit beginning in 2016.

SC legislature passes turkey hunting bill, but deer-hunting bill is sidelined

Pat Robertson

South Carolina hunters will have a lower bag limit but an expanded season for turkeys starting in 2016 because of a bill that passed both houses of the S.C. General Assembly and was signed into law by Gov. Nikki Haley earlier this month. […]

Bluewater fishermen are catching plenty of dolphin in the bluewater out of South Carolina ports. Not only are they ahead of schedule, they're closer to the beach than normal, thanks to meanderings of the Gulf Stream.

Early arrival of dolphin has South Carolina fishermen loving the bluewater

Phillip Gentry

Bluewater anglers are getting an early start on the trolling season as both dolphin and wahoo have showed up off the South Carolina coast nearly a month ahead of schedule. […]

Blue crabs topped the commercial fishing harvest in 2014, as they have in past years.

Commercial landings way up, recreational landings way down in 2014

From News Reports

North Carolina’s commercial fishing harvest increased by 23 percent in 2014, boosted by higher landings of blue crabs, spiny dogfish and summer flounder, while recreational fishermen caught 25-percent fewer fish last year, according to the N.C. Division of Marine Fisheries. […]