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‘Dead-sticking’ soft-plastic baits like this shrimp is a great technique to catch reds when their metabolism is slower during the winter.

Go slowly in cold water

The winter of 2010-2011 was exceptionally cold along the south Atlantic Coast, especially in South Carolina. The first hard cold spell came at Thanksgiving, and it didn’t let up until late February. […]

Capt. Steve Ranney admires a “rat” red caught in Broad Creek the week after Christmas 2010. Reds can survive in a temperatures from the 30s to the high 80s and in salt to brackish waters.

Adaptable redfish

Jerry Dilsaver

Redfish, known affectionately in the Palmetto State as spot-tail bass, are also called puppy drum, channel bass, rat reds (small), bull reds (large) or just reds. […]

The Charleston jetties are a top sheepshead-spot during the winter months, but docks and rip-rapped walls in inside creeks can be just as productive because of the amount of structure.

Sheepshead are moving to a new ‘pasture’

Phillip Gentry

The upcoming removal of sheepshead from the snapper/grouper complex has fisheries managers scrambling to account for the state’s flourishing population. […]

Fiddler crabs and medium- to medium-light spinning tackle are a perfect match for winter sheepshead.

Where to catch sheepshead

Phillip Gentry

The better places to find sheepshead will be those that get less fishing pressure. Capt. John Ward recommended trying these locations until you find some of your own: […]

About one-third of all fishermen who bought saltwater licenses in South Carolina in 2010 fish from the shoreline or attached structures like docks, bridges and piers.

Take it to the bank

Phillip Gentry

When Wallace Jenkins and the marine resources division of the SCDNR hit the road to obtain public opinion about future management of the state’s sheepshead fishery, they had a good understanding of who they would be talking to. […]

The recreational shallow-water grouper season is scheduled to begin its annual four-month closure on Jan. 1. It is projected that commercial fishermen will reach their allocation of gag grouper, like the one pictured, before then, so the commercial season

Recreational shallow-water grouper season to close on Jan. 1

Jerry Dilsaver

Just after the ball hits bottom in Times Square on New Year’s Eve, recreational fishermen across the Southeast Atlantic will add shallow-water grouper to the growing list of offshore bottom species that are off limits. […]

Eric Fincher of Mt. Pleasant landed the 89-pound state record blue catfish from Badin Lake in 2006.

Beat Winter Blues

Tony Garitta

During recent years, Lake Norman, a member of the Catawba River chain of lakes and Badin Lake, a member of the Yadkin River chain of lakes, have emerged as the state’s premier reservoirs for trophy blue catfish. […]

A hunter and his guide wait for deer to show up outside their box blind during the seventh annual Lowcountry Wounded Warrior hunt.

Wounded Warrior hunt in Lowcountry draws 45 participants

Larry Chesney

The Lowcountry chapter of Safari Club International held its seventh annual Wounded Warrior Hunt in late October, providing hunting opportunities for 45 participants on 23 different properties with 100 volunteers. […]

Guide Owen Plair shows off the results of a morning cast-and-blast: a double-handful of redfish and marsh hens.

‘Rail’ Road to Reds

Bryan Bowers

Being a sportsman in South Carolina is not an either/or situation. You can be a hunter or fisherman — or both. So it’s no surprise that Lowcountry sportsmen have discovered a way to combine their two loves on the Broad River, casting and blasting the day away. […]