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Natalie Blair caught this nice Charleston redfish on a red/white Super Spook Junior.

Top hat reds

Kevin Blair fishes the waters around Charleston about 200 days a year, but his favorite days are in May when he can catch redfish on topwater baits. […]

Don Mounce's 5-pound, 8-ounce speckled trout, caught April 18, is a new record for the Mount Pleasant Pier.

Charleston man breaks Mount Pleasant Pier record with 5 1/2-pound speck

Glenn Corley

Don Mounce of Charleston set a pier record for spotted sea trout at the Mount Pleasant Pier with a 5 ½-pound fish he caught on April 18. […]

Nearshore reefs off Hilton Head Island have produced a pretty good sheepshead bite over the past week or two.

Sheepshead are biting around nearshore reefs off Hilton Head

Brian Cope

The sheepshead bite is on fire in the Hilton Head area, and Capt. Rick Percy of Reel Chance Charters said fiddler crabs fished around structure has helped him have his share of 100-fish days this past week. […]

Spanish mackerel and bluefish have been ganged up around nearshore reefs out of Charleston and Edisto.

Nearshore reefs out of Charleston, Edisto are full of Spanish macks, bluefish

Brian Cope

Bluefish and Spanish mackerel are biting around the nearshore reefs out of Charleston and Edisto, and the best way to catch them has been trolling Clarkspoons and deep-running plugs. […]

Tim Coble’s gobbler, killed in the Uwharrie Mountains of Davidson County last spring, pushed the 20-pound mark and sported a 10-inch beard and inch-long spurs, but it left him in second place in his family to son Tyler, who killed a bigger bird during the 2014 Youth Only season.

Tips for Uwharrie turkeys

Walter Taylor

Scout near creekbottoms and river bottoms. Look for places where turkeys have been scratching for bugs and worms. […]

Trolling is a great way to cover a lot of water and locate concentrations of early spring specks.

Locate early trout by trolling

Phillip Gentry

Guide Dan Utley of Hilton Head said trout often stay on the move during early spring, following newly arrived baitfish and adjusting to cold fronts. […]

Understanding trout

Phillip Gentry

Speckled trout are a unique and popular fish among inshore anglers, and in the overall scheme of fishing, they may be the most “normal” of the coastal species. […]