Inshore Fishing
Cobia will hit bait or lures
While Buddy Bizzell usually prefers live or cut menhaden for cobia bait, he said cobia aren’t picky about what they eat. A number of other baits are good choices.
May 2016
Bass Fishing
Try “boil-and-oil” cleaning tip for smoother casting
Keeping reels working smoothly helps increase casting distance and helps bass fishermen catch more fish.
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Keep your turkey calling simple late in the season
Jay Bruce, a former tournament crappie professional from Greer, loves to spend his spring chasing gobblers, and he’s taken a number in recent years, especially late in the season. […]
Inshore Fishing
Cobia are an unusual pelagic species
Cobia, rachycentron canadum, are a pelagic fish — they travel the open ocean — but unlike most pelagic species, cobia also inhabit inshore waterways like the Broad River and St. Helena Sound, at least for short periods of time.
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Keep recently burned areas on your late-season turkey hunting map
William Peagler of Moncks Corner, a Lowcountry hunter with more than 30 years experience hunting turkeys, said one late-season trick involves getting in a turkey’s way and being where he wants to be before he arrives — and some of those spots are burned areas. […]
Offshore Fishing
Catch-and-release dolphin? Really?
Catching a dolphin and releasing it may sound like sheer lunacy to some bluewater anglers, but there is a sound reason to let a few go each year.
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Don’t put aggressive turkey calling aside
Skeet Thomas loves to call aggressively, even in the late season, and he has two reasons he feels comfortable doing so. […]
Inshore Fishing
Top live baits for speckled trout
The audacity of man to believe he can create a fishing bait better then God’s own hands never ceases to amaze die-hard, live-bait anglers, especially when speckled trout are concerned. With bait moving back into the estuaries, here’s your pick of the best live baits for big specks.
Offshore Fishing
Dolphin grow fast, die young and taste good
Few organisms in the ocean can match the fast life cycle of the dolphin fish, coryphaena hippurus. Dolphin reach sexual maturity at four to five months, where it takes a king mackerel three years to spawn. The world-record dolphin, 87 pounds was believed to be slightly less than five years old. By comparison, the world-record king mackerel, a 93-pound fish, was thought to be closer to 25 years old.
Sidebars
Keep moving, calling as end of turkey season approaches
Skeet Thomas has developed a routine for hunting toward the very end of the season that typically provides a lot of gobbling and gobbler activity. […]