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Small topwater baits, prop- or popper-style, can be deadly on big fish in the shallows this month.

A surprise topwater time

August is not a month that most bass fishermen associate with a topwater bite, but a lot of our lakes in South Carolina have a pretty good one this month. […]

Adrianna Cockerill of Eastover killed this doe, which featured a 4-point, full velvet rack, on Aug. 23 in Richlands County.

Eastover woman kills 4-point doe in full velvet

Dan Kibler

It’s unusual for a woman to be the person shouting “It’s a girl!” to a group of people. That’s the situation that Adrianna Cockerill of Eastover found herself in last Saturday night, only she wasn’t in the delivery room of some hospital; she was standing at the back of a pickup truck, looking at a 4-pointer in full velvet she had just killed. […]

Bass may move closer to the surface in August on some lakes, but you’re more likely to have success fishing in deep water.

Pay attention to details

David Fritts

August has always been a tough month for bass fishermen, because the fish start getting spread out — there aren’t nearly as many grouped up — and because you might find them anywhere from around shallow docks to 25 feet deep. […]

Gonzales pro Greg Hackney placed sixth at the Bassmaster Elite Series stop at Lake Chickamauga using a Rage Blade.

The Rage Blade

Don Shoopman

An Edisto Island, S.C., artificial lure designer knows first-hand just how good the ChatterBait was when it was born and how good it is now, as it has won more money this year than ever before for pro bass anglers on the FLW and Bassmaster Elite series circuits across the United States. […]

Russ Shippe, Stan Warren, Blanding Levin and Richard Sines caught this 8 1/2-foot lemon shark they landed at Edisto Saturday.

Big sharks in surf are a gas for group of Charleston anglers

Brian Cope

An exciting bite awaits South Carolina anglers looking for something a little more adventurous than the norm. […]

If you hunt, the odds are your first shot was taken with a Daisy Red Ryder BB gun.

The Daisy BB gun

Gordon Hutchinson

I have no idea what happened to it, but the first honest-to-gosh gun I ever handled was a Daisy BB gun given to me by my dad on my sixth birthday. […]

Bass pro Anthony Gagliardi of Prosperity won the FLW's Forrest Wood Cup and its $500,000 first-prize money by having a backup plan for Lake Murray last week.

Backup plan pans out for Gagliardi in FLW win

Pat Robertson

In 2008, bass pro Anthony Gagliardi of Prosperity had a pattern he thought would produce the kind of fish he needed to win the FLW Forrest Wood Cup on Lake Murray. […]

A soft-plastic imitation shrimp needs to be rigged with the eye of the hook protruding from the shrimp's tail to present a natural action when worked in front of a trout.

Turn that hook around and fish that plastic shrimp more naturally

Jerry Dilsaver

Guide Noak Lynk of Harkers Islands has noticed for a while that rigs that use soft-plastic, artificial shrimp, don’t exactly match what nature presents. […]

Andy Wicker uses his electronic "bird dog" to point out black bass, but others use it to identify different species with excellent results.

Summer is great time to use new fish-finding technology

Terry Madewell

New technology and developments in fish-finding systems can lead to quick and definitive location of fish-laden hot spots. And summer is an ideal time to take advantage of this technology. […]

Victoria Navaroli caught this huge green sunfish, which weighed 1 ounce shy of 2 pounds. It is the new North Carolina state record.

Charlotte teen catches state-record green sunfish

NCWRC Release

It was a team effort that landed Victoria Navaroli a state-record fish from a private pond in Creston. In the early morning hours of July 12, the 13-year-old Charlotte girl watched as her big brother Jack baited his hook with a quarter of a night crawler and then handed his fishing rod to her. […]