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Avoid the rivers, head for the trout streams
Heavy rains in recent weeks in the mountains have made fishing difficult in bigger rivers, but small-stream trout fishing, especially in delayed-harvest streams, has been good. […]
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Freshwater Fishing
May fishing breaks loose
May is diversity month for Santee Cooper, and it brings out some of the very best fishing for a wide variety of species around Lake Marion and Lake Moultrie. […]
Freshwater Fishing
Experiment with lure choices
Crappie feast on small fish most of the year, and while live minnows tend to always provoke a strike, small jigs are an excellent alternative. […]
Freshwater Fishing
Utilize your C.I.A. — Crappie Intelligence Apparatus
For today’s angler, the advances in technology have improved the chances to gain valuable intelligence about the water. […]
Freshwater Fishing
The weather and sunlight factors
Deep-water jigging for crappie can sound intimidating to the angler conditioned to chasing spawning fish in shallow water, yet many of the variables and difficulties involved in finding and coaxing crappie to cooperate dissolve during the post-spawn period. […]
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Striper fishing at Lake Moultrie has taken off
Striped bass have made the transition from the upriver spawn in upper Lake Marion all the way back to the Pinopolis Dam in Lake Moultrie, where they are being caught in huge numbers and good sizes.
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Catch ’em when they’re deep – After the spawn, Santee Cooper’s crappie will still bite; you’ve just got to look for them in deep water.
As the sun cooks the waters over Berkeley County, America’s tastiest freshwater favorite continues to offer anglers an outlet for their prized flesh. […]
Bass Fishing
Lake Hickory bass spawn is in full swing; bigger fish in upper end
Get ’em while they’re hot!
That’s the message from bass pro Tracy Adams of Wilkesboro after a couple of days on the water this week catching bass on Lake Hickory. […]
Freshwater Fishing
Fish shallow, young man!
There’s one time of the year when most species of gamefish — and most any fish species, in fact — are roaming the shallows of Santee Cooper’s Lake Marion and Lake Moultrie. […]
Bass Fishing
Lake Marion anglers catching plenty of bass heading to and from their beds
When fishing guide Inky Davis of Manning said largemouth bass are being caught coming and going at Lake Marion, he meant it literally. […]