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Cover: October 2017

Steve Rodger welcomed in the 2017-18 deer season in South Carolina’s Lowcountry by busting this huge buck on opening day. […]

Jessica Hill, the popular, always smiling owner of Perry's Bait and Tackle in Murrells Inlet was tragically murdered in her store during an attempted arson today, Sept. 29, 2017

Murder of tackle store owner shocks Murrells Inlet

Jeff Burleson

Murrells Inlet lost one of its favorites today. Jessica Lynn Hill, owner/operator of Perry’s Bait and Tackle, was killed near her store after a man tried to burn down her establishment. […]

Tootie Morris killed this 135-inch, 12-point buck in Person County while bow hunting with her husband. It's her fifth Pope & Young buck.

Rougemont bow huntress kills 12-point trophy

Dusty Wilson

As a hair stylist, it’s not always easy for Nancy “Tootie” Morris of Rougemont, NC to make a living and make time for hunting. But, when her husband threatened to kill her buck — she cleared her schedule for the afternoon of Sept. 16 and took the 190-pound, Person County 12-point they had been watching since July. […]

October means nice High Rock stripers

Dan Kibler

Guide Jerry Hill said striper fishing on North Carolina’s High Rock Lake really breaks loose around Oct. 20, with fish in the 10-pound class and above beginning to show up. […]

Big, bull redfish will stay locked on to schools of menhaden moving down the beaches of the Grand Strand this time of year.

Big reds like Grand Strand beaches, too

Jeff Burleson

Fall fishing action fires off all over the South Carolina coast this time of year, but for big-fish action, you don’t have to go far from the beach. Big, bull redfish are heading out of inlets for the ocean, where they will spend the winter, making nearshore waters, especially those off the Grand Strand, prime areas to be brought to your knees by a strong fish. […]

Lake Rhodhiss produces quality stripers, especially in the fall after water temperatures drop into the 60s.

Rhodhiss stripers offer big rewards on live bait in autumn

Tony Garitta

Guide of Joe Jobin of Xtreme Striper Fishing said fishermen can catch good numbers of stripers from North Carolina’s Lake Hickory, but just upstream, Lake Rhodhiss spits out bigger fish. […]

This slab crappie also inhaled a Cajun Lures’ Slim Jimmy.

Slim Jimmys

Don Shoopman

Before there was a Cooyon Croaker, Kaplan-based Cajun Lures probably was best known for the little soft plastic that slayed sac-a-lait (crappie) here, there and everywhere. […]

Guide Brad Fowler said 20- and 30-fish days on spotted bass and largemouth are not uncommon on Lake Keowee in October.

Keowee bass blitz comes on with changing of the leaves

Pat Robertson

For a number of reasons, fall is a great time of year to go bass fishing on South Carolina’s Lake Keowee. Summer, with its almost intolerable heat and humidity, is just a bad memory as cooler fall temperatures prevail. […]

Guide Brad Taylor says falling water temperatures kick off a great crappie bite on Lake Murray in October and November.

It’s slab time on Murray

Pat Robertson

Fishing for crappie on South Carolina’s Lake Murray starts picking up in early October and gets better week by week through the fall until it peaks, usually around Thanksgiving, according to guide Brad Taylor. […]

Lake James smallies crank up as water temperature drops

Tony Garitta

When October temperatures get nippy, guide Colt Bass of Colt Bass Fishing knows the impending cool-down will prompt the smallmouth at North Carolina’s picturesque Lake James to move from their deep, summer holes into shallower water to begin feeding up for the winter. […]