For striped bass ranging from 12 to 30 pounds this month, guide Joe Jobin of Xtreme Striper Fishing (704-240-0165) spends his time on Lake Rhodhiss, playing in the sand and trees from the NC 18 bridge upstream to the mouth of the St. John’s River.
It’s tough to beat May for catfish on the Santee Cooper lakes, and fishing for them this time of year is a bit different than it has been for several months. Anglers can still expect to catch a trophy, but they’ll do it with a different technique.
The shellcracker bite has been on fire at Santee for the past couple of weeks, and while plenty of anglers are catching their share of them, those who follow a few tips are having the best luck.
For some anglers who target crappie, they are nothing more than crappie or speckled perch.
April is the month when almost every species of fish that spawns is in skinny water: largemouth bass, crappie, catfish, stripers, shellcrackers and bream. Stripers are shallow in the sense they are running up the river to spawn and in fact, many are caught in the Pack’s and Elliott’s flats areas adjacent to the river.
Branson Miller of Wilkesboro went trout fishing on the opening day of the season in Alleghany County, but it was what he did later that afternoon that will always stick out in his mind. Miller, 13-years-old, killed a rare color phase gobbler while hunting with his dad, Brian Miller.
The body of the Sumter angler who went missing over the weekend after being dropped off in Pocotaligo Swamp was found Wednesday afternoon by search crews from the SCDNR and the Sumter County Sheriff’s Dept.
The search for a missing angler in the Pocotaligo Swamp off of Hwy 15 in Sumter County was suspended earlier this evening, and search crews with the SCDNR and Sumter County Sheriff’s Dept. will resume searching Monday morning.
Taking a kid fishing instills in them an attitude of appreciation for the outdoors, but hooking them up to a 76-pound blue catfish is subject to creating an angler for life.
Spring has arrived, and across the south, April is many things to many people, especially when it comes to enjoying blooming trees, shrubs and azaleas, plus South Carolina’s outdoor treasures. […]
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