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Angler Mike Davis likes to fish a jig shallow around shoreline cover if he can find stained to dingy water at Badin Lake.

Badin’s Bass Basics

Badin Lake is full of big bass. To catch them this month, you’ll first have to decide whether you want to fish clean or dirty water. […]

Keeping the slack out of your fly line increases chances of a good hookset.

Get the slack out

John Gribb

Blind casting has its hang-ups, literally. A jig and trailer tossed near oyster shells or grass will often get stuck, but you have to get the lure close to structure or you won’t catch many fish. […]

Eddie Lackey caught this beautiful Badin Lake largemouth.

Fish the wind

Glenn Hudson

Mike Davis especially loves fishing his dirty-water, power-fishing technique on a windy day. A little wind turns everything on according to him. […]

Poling is a common way to move a boat across a shallow flat for redfish.

Good St. Helena Sound/Coosaw River spots

John Gribb

Redfish spots abound around Beaufort, and most are indicated on the Top Spot map #N233. Knowing good spots gives you one-third of the equation for success. […]

A jig or spinnerbait is an excellent lure to fish around Badin Lake’s shoreline grass in the spring.

Grazin’ in the grass, can you dig it?

Glenn Hudson

Badin Lake is well known for the abundance of canary reed grass, an aquatic grass that grows along much of the lake’s shoreline. […]

The author caught this hefty redfish on a jighead and soft-plastic trailer.

Port Royal Sound also has plenty of redfish spots. Several are accessible from two of the more popular landings: the Chechessee River landing at the foot of the SC 170 Bridge and the Alljoy landing on the May River in historic old Bluffton. […]

Captains from North Carolina’s Cape Fear region take full advantage of a great springtime wahoo run.

Wired for Wahoo

Mike Marsh

Capt. Butch Foster fired up the engines of Yeah Right, his 34-foot Chris Craft. On a chilly spring morning, his fishing party for the day was inside Southport Marina, drinking steaming cups of coffee. […]

Ralph Davis fooled this red with a jig and Bass Assassin trailer.

Reds:

Dan Kibler

The average Palmetto State redfish begins lifet in late summer as an egg spawned on a deep area of hardbottom near the mouth of a big inlet or bay… […]

Butch Foster rigs a planer so it can be released and an a wahoo fought only on the rod..

Land a wahoo without a planer

Mike Marsh

To troll big baits and lures down at the depths where wahoo are lurking, fishermen resort to using big planers. […]

This trolling plug bears scars from dozens of wahoo. Plugs are often more effective than ballyhoo, especially trolled at high speeds.

Rigging a lure cures ballyhoo blowouts

Mike Marsh

Rigging ballyhoo on trolling skirts takes lots of time and money. Blown-out ballyhoo bellies from high-speed trolling and cut-off tails from short strikes are two types of bait failures. […]