Freshwater Fishing
Established without state’s help, spotted bass are an angler favorite
As numbers of spotted bass have grown in South Carolina lakes, so has their popularity. […]
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Freshwater Fishing
Electronics will help spot spotted bass
Electronics are critical when it comes to finding the deep-water structure that spotted bass prefers. […]
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Bad weather, good hunting
For a species with a brain the size of a walnut, wild turkeys are fairly clever at avoiding the talons or the teeth of predators, but their poor sense of smell allows hunters and other predators to take a few turkeys each year. […]
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Make use of locator calls as season progresses
Locator calls are an important of any turkey hunter’s arsenal, especially from mid-season to the final day of the season.
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Have a wide assortment of calls ready
Veteran hunter and call-maker John Tanner said that in the middle to late portion of the season, it is often one specific tone or pitch from a call that will make a gobbler respond and approach your position. […]
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Lake Wateree crappie action is really breaking loose
Crappie season has literally boomed in the past few days at Lake Wateree after a very slow start to the season. […]
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Bill to protect Santee Cooper blue cats draws ire of Upstate politician
A bill introduced in January that would establish a daily creel limit and change the size limit on blue catfish at the Santee Cooper lakes has made it through the S.C. House and has moved to the S.C. Senate in early March, setting up a possible confrontation between commercial and recreational fishermen on Lake Marion and Lake Moultrie and pay-pond owners in the Upstate who rely on the lakes to acquire fish for their ponds. […]
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New Bern has been center of great speckled trout bite
Even though it’s catch-and-release only for another two months, the speckled trout fishing around New Bern has been tremendous for the past two weeks, according to Capt. Joe Ward of Flydaddy Charters. […]
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White bass spawning run at full swing out of Lake Greenwood
Lake Greenwood’s white bass are making their annual migration up the Saluda and Reedy rivers, and fishermen are catching limits from the mouth of those rivers as far up as navigable water will allow. […]
Fishing
Fly-fishing patterns are constantly changing
Fly patterns constantly evolve as fly tiers originate new patterns and modify standard ones in an endless effort to find something that looks irresistible to a trout. […]