Newsletter

For Davy Hite, finding big bass is as easy as finding blueback herring.

Blue ‘Hors d’oevres’

By June and on through the summer, fishermen need to know only one thing to catch largemouth bass in Clarks Hill Lake — where to find the blueback herring. […]

Full camouflage clothing is one requirement for successfully calling sharp-eyed coyotes into shotgun range.

Calling All Coyotes

Mike Marsh

A hunter perched in a tower stand stared intently down a woods road, searching for any telltale movement that might give away his quarry. […]

Backlashes

Poster child for greed? See Big Rock fight

Craig Holt

National Football League fans will wail and gnash their teeth if the league and its players don’t settle a labor lockout before September. […]

Black sea bass in Charleston harbor? Yep, and Capt. Chuck Griffin knows where they and a lot of other species live.

Saltwater Series: Charleston Harbor

Dan Kibler

The Charleston Harbor area is arguably the center of South Carolina’s coastal fishery, and in more ways that just geography. […]

Anthony Ng caught this scamp grouper after a relatively short run to an offshore ledge out of Morehead City.

With bottomfish seasons open — finally — North Carolina anglers who fish out of Morehead City will find some of the best action. So many reefs, ledges and wrecks are such an easy boat ride out of port that it can be hard to pick a hard-bottom destination. […]

Currents

Iconic Hite is a Carolina ‘Classic’

Dan Kibler

You might be a little bit unsure of the name of this publication after you get through reading it. No, it’s not Davy Hite Sportsman; it’s still South Carolina Sportsman. […]

All postspawn bass aren’t hard to catch, but at some point in the weeks after the spawn, they’re all hungry.

‘Buzz’ away those postspawn blues

Dustin Wilks

For most fishermen, “postspawn” is a dreaded term. To them, it means that bass will be inactive, tired and unwilling to chase and bite lures. […]

An angler and the mate on Hot Shot show off a May dolphin

Dolphin, wahoo, tuna all on tap in late May

Jeff Dennis

Captain Dick Vance with Hot Shot Charters in Charleston, 843-209-1630, reports that May is the best month to go offshore fishing and that he will be booked everyday of the month. […]

A bill to change the upstate turkey season start dates was defeated

Legislature defeats bills to change Upstate turkey opener, change DNR makeup

Pat Robertson

Sportsmen and caretakers of the state’s natural resources scored some major wins in the 2011 General Assembly, defeating a proposal to extend the turkey season in the Upstate and a plan to restructure the S.C. Department of Natural Resources into a cabinet agency. […]