Freshwater Fishing

Have a holiday striper

I make my living fishing for bass, and I certainly love to fish for them, but sometimes I like to fish for other species of gamefish. I love to fish for bream, crappie and striped bass, and December is the time I fish for stripers and hybrids in Lake Murray and Clarks Hill and Wateree and even Santee Cooper. […]

Fishing

Wise sportsman’s gifts

Wow, it has been a year already, and it’s time for more gift ideas for those outdoor folks in your lives. Hopefully, you’ll find a few suggestions that will be helpful again. […]

Hunting

Check (duck) legs for jewelry

The prime days of the duck season will arrive this month; more ducks are harvested in the next few weeks than any other part of the season, as hunters get serious and head to lakes, swamps, marshes, rivers and flooded impoundments filled with corn and millet. […]

Inshore Fishing

Rock for Rocks — How to catch striped bass on Badin Lake

For years, Jerry Hill lived and fished — and guided fishermen for striped bass — on Badin Lake. He moved up Rt. 8 from one end of Davidson County to the other two years ago, settling on High Rock Lake, and now he’s doing most of his fishing on High Rock — but not because of proximity. […]