Scanning the water across a creek near Sneads Ferry, Capt. Allen Jernigan spotted the telltale ripples made by a small school of red drum milling about. The fish were moving slowly, and it wasn’t really a series of wakes but a spot experienced fishermen often call “nervous water.” […]
Capt. Allen Jernigan said one of the keys to catching winter red drum is to fish slower than you do during the rest of the year. […]
Of South Carolina’s major catfish species, the blue catfish seems to be the one that really chows down during the winter cold, and the really big blues are doing just that at Lake Monticello right now. […]
Lake Jocassee was established back in the early 1970s as a trophy trout fishery. Anglers fished for trout in the spring, then moved elsewhere to fish the rest of the year. […]
Although most freshwater fish slow down when the water really cools off during the winter, the frigid temperatures don’t seem to bother catfish. […]
Mention tuna to anglers, and it might bring mental images of a small section of boiling ocean as yellowfins feed relentlessly. […]
It might be winter, but the speckled trout, puppy drum and stripers in the Neuse and Trent Rivers haven’t gone into hibernation. […]
Striper fishermen are catching a lot of fish on Lake Greenwood lately – just not the fish they’re targeting. […]
During the first 10 days of January, colder winter weather moving across South Carolina has reminded both anglers and their quarry that winter is here. […]
Rusty Owens of Stantonsburg succeeded in a season-long pursuit of what he calls the “Unicorn Buck” in the last few minutes of the 2012 deer hunting season. […]
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