Cobia
South Carolina coastal fishing report for early May
The springtime fishing is great for South Carolina anglers, and it’s expected to only get better as the weather continues to warm. […]
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Newsletters
It’s grouper season for Carolina anglers
It’s grouper season off the Carolina coastlines, and bottom fishing is the trick to catching these tasty morsels of the sea. […]
Fishing Hotspots
Anglers are catching a bounty offshore on the bottom
Cooling December waters bring bottomfish like grouper and snapper closer to shore and within reach of more fishermen. […]
Fishing Hotspots
Last-gasp bottom-fishing headlines SENC coastline
How to catch gag, black, scamp and red grouper off North Carolina’s southeastern coast in December. […]
Columns
Get cheeky with mojo grouper
The odd weather that has been prevalent in the Carolinas this year has continued into the fall. After rain and heat through the summer, Hurricane Florence backed into the east coast and wreaked havoc from Cedar Island, N.C. to Cape Romain, S.C. […]
Features
November: prime time for super grouper
John Mallette’s love affair with grouper began when he was a teen on Topsail Island, where his family once owned Ocean City Pier. He took a trip with Joe Hifko, a noted fisherman, and was hooked right away.
Columns
Cheeky grouper kabobs make a great meal
August may be hot, but there is plenty happening for sportsmen in the Carolinas. Saltwater fishing has been good all summer, and some freshwater species are beginning to become active again. Deer hunters in parts of South Carolina get a head start in mid-August, and a lot of migratory bird seasons open Sept. 1. […]
Featured
Brothers bag huge gag groupers out of Morehead City
A pair of brothers, Anthony and Alex Ng have been grouper fishing for more than 30 years, but scored their largest gag groupers ever this year. Alex Ng, of Morehead City, scored first on June 12 with a 63 pounder while fishing with his friend Bradley Brown. Several weeks later, he was fishing with his brother, Anthony, when Anthony wrestled a 68 pounder to the boat. […]
Featured
Isle of Palms angler catches new SC state record gag grouper
Jim Lasher of Isle of Palms was enjoying a good day of dolphin fishing out of IOP Marina with some coworkers and friend Capt. Ben Floyd of Charleston Fish Finder on May 1, the opening day of grouper season, when Lasher asked Floyd if he thought they’d get a chance to try for the bottom fish. Not long after, Lasher landed the new state record gag grouper, a 54+ pound beast that put up quite a tussle. […]
Featured
Grouper season welcomed back
Grouper are popular throughout the world, usually occupying a big niche in seafood restaurants. While they are highly recognized on the dinner menu, few anglers ever make it onto an offshore boat to see one of these fish face to face. If they did, they would surely remember how much energy it took to winch them out of deep water. […]