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Take care of the bass you catch and release and you’ll have them to catch and release again and again.

Why fish slime matters

A few months ago, I accidentally dropped a bass in the bottom of a dirty old johnboat at my favorite pond. I felt bad, as it was covered in sand when I let it go. […]

Speckled trout are on the rebound in South Carolina waters two years after back-to-back winter cold kills.

Trout close to being back

Bryan Bowers

Back-to-back winter kills on spotted seatrout in 2009 and 2010 decimated the population and left anglers who love catching specks wondering when the fishery would once again be viable. […]

Flounder fishing has been great lately in the inshore waters of Murrells Inlet and Pawleys Island.

Flounder bite on southern end of Grand Strand has cranked up

Jeff Burleson

Mother Nature keeps slinging unsettled weather across South Carolina’s coastal area, yet guides in Murrells Inlet and Pawleys Island report steady catches of flounder. […]

Capt. Jimmy Skinner of Edisto Beach catches plenty of redfish on live bait.

Video gives tips for fishing cut bait for South Carolina redfish

Phillip Gentry

Despite the best marketing attempts of lure manufacturers, casting soft-plastic baits is not the only way to catch redfish. […]

Guide Joel Richardson has been catching plenty of bass on their beds lately -- most of them males guarding fry -- but he's catching an occasional late-spawning female.

Harris bass spawn mostly done, but keep fishing those beds

Dusty Wilson

Female largemouth bass at Shearon Harris Lake have mostly spawned out and left male bass guarding the fry that’s hatched out, and while many fishermen dread this time, guide Joel Richardson of Kernersville isn’t one of them. He’s catching them. […]

Joey Boretti of Holly Springs caught this state-record white crappie from a private lake in Wake County on April 1.

Commission certifies two new freshwater state-record fish

NCWRC Release

After more than a year without a new state-record freshwater fish, the N.C. Wildlife Resources Commission recently certified two new record breakers — a freshwater drum from Kerr Reservoir and a white crappie from a private lake in Wake County. […]

Ronnie and Layne Beck show off the only two stripers caught in the Tarheel Striper Club tournament at High Rock Lake on March 16.

Lexington pair win big

Tony Garitta

Chris Brown and Jason Thomas of Lexington won the March 23 Carolina Bass Challenge on Jordan Lake with a 5-fish limit that weighed an impressive 27.81 pounds and was worth $9,000. […]

A swimbait is a perfect bait to fish when bass are feeding on spawning blueback herring, as they usually are this month in several South Carolina lakes.

May is herring time

Davy Hite

May is a unique month for bass fishermen in South Carolina because of a little, oily fish that swims in a lot of our reservoirs. […]

Tanner Lynk shows off the kind of bluefish that have descended on the Cape Lookout area in the past week.

Chopper blues arrive on annual visit to Cape Lookout area

Jerry Dilsaver

Chopper bluefish have moved into the hook and drain at Cape Lookout, and the toothy critters are worthy and dependable adversaries. […]

Learn how to throw a cast net to catch your own live bait.

VIdeo teaches basic cast-netting technique so you can get your own, fresh live bait

Phillip Gentry

This time of year, striped bass will move out of the main-lake deep water in many of South Carolina’s reservoirs and up into some of the longer tributary arms, and one of the top baits is large gizzard shad – which are often right under your boat. […]