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South Carolina’s proactive sheepshead restrictions should protect the state’s fishery for years to come.

Size limits promote sustainability

Sheepshead are foreign to some anglers and common to others. For those familiar with them, their courageous battles are memorable to say the least. […]

China-back fiddler crabs are the top bait for sheepshead, and anglers can collect plenty by raking exposed areas of the marsh.

Catch your own bait

Jeff Burleson

Sheepshead are omnivorous and will eat about anything attached to or living close to structure, putting oysters, clams, barnacles, crabs, shrimp and mussels are on their menu. […]

Don’t get caught wading a flat or fishing in a small boat if a thunderstorm is approaching.

Thunderstorm safety

John Gribb

The vast majority of lightning injuries and deaths on boats occur in small, open boats according to NOAA. […]

Shallow, low-tide flats can be great spots for summer reds, but the action can be hit-or-miss.

Summer redfish spots

John Gribb

Even though redfish spread out in the warmer months, they relate to low-tide, shallow-water flats all year because flats provide security from predators like the bottlenosed dolphin. […]

Grazing cattle can do plenty of damage to important wildlife habitat like stream corridors.

Exclude cattle from woodlots and riparian corridors

Jeff Burleson

The Carolinas may not be considered top cattle-producing states like Texas, Nebraska and Kansas, but the 1.2 million head of cattle roaming the Carolinas can have a dramatic effect on wildlife habitat. […]

Summer is a great and important time to reduce local populations of feral hogs.

Fire up feral hog-trapping efforts

Jeff Burleson

The feral hog explosion continues, and for landowners in the Carolinas, swine invasion is far less than divine. […]

Puncturing a fish's swim bladder can help it survive in a livewell when it might otherwise turn up on its side and die.

Six tips for keeping fish or bait livelier in livewells or bait tanks

Phillip Gentry

Whether the fish you’re trying to keep healthy are in the bait tank or in the livewell, there are several tricks that you can use to keep them alive – or at least tasty – during the summer, and they all boil down to one thing: oxygen levels. […]

Fishermen can fish streamers either downstream or upstream, although they might be more effective downstream.

Sculpzilla: king streamer

Robert Satterwhite

Streamers are flies that imitate a variety of aquatic life, especially minnows, and when fly fishers fish big waters for big trout, they’ll usually tie on a streamer. […]

Amy Gentry works with powerboats every day, but most of her fishing is done from a paddleboard or a kayak.

Standing room only

Phillip Gentry

What does a girl who is a service manager for a marine dealership, who spends all her time fussing over boats and motors, do to unwind after a hard day at work? She goes fishing on a paddleboard. […]

Nice, big speckled trout are on an early morning topwater bite around Carolina Beach.

Take it to the top early for Carolina Beach speckled trout

Jerry Dilsaver

Capt. Rennie Clark of Tournament Trail Charters said the early morning speckled trout action around Carolina Beach has been about as hot as the weather, with specks crushing bait on the surface, dictating the use of topwater baits for fish that are averaging 3 to 5 pounds. […]