Catfish

The cats’ meow

Anglers from throughout the Carolinas make an annual trek to the Santee Cooper lakes in search of trophy catfish, and these enormous cats make it worth the trouble with explosive bites and drag-screaming surges. […]

Fishing

Curado DC

Backlashes are the main reason that many novice anglers choose not to use baitcasting reels — and even seasoned bass anglers still feel the wrath of it on windy days and when casting light lures. It’s unfortunately and ironically all a part of fishing with the industry’s most-advanced reels. Until now!  […]

Deer Hunting

Hunting the flood

Hunting season arrives annually, just when cooler weather begins to make its mark, but it’s during the peak of hurricane season in the Carolinas. […]

Featured

IOP reds feeding

The cooling waters of fall have moved in, and redfish in a mix of sizes are feeding heavily in the inshore waterways and Lowcountry creeks around the Isle of Palms north of Charleston. Summer is over, and fewer people are on the water, but the redfish bite is as hot as it’s been since the spring. […]

Featured

The hunt for red October

Rennie Clark Jr., a guide and redfish tournament fisherman, calls this month “Red October” along the North Carolina coast north and east of Cape Fear River. […]