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Bit speckled trout do a great deal of their feeding in low-light conditions at dawn and dusk, but fishing at night may be your best chance of hooking up with a real trophy.

Big night bite!

Fishermen catch speckled trout throughout the day, but the majority are caught early in the morning and late in the afternoon. Often overlooked by many anglers is the night bite. Trout will feed throughout the night during the summer when conditions are right. […]

Zara Spooks are among the most-revered of all topwater baits.

There’s no ‘spooking’ Lesley Childers

Scott Keepfer

Tackle shops are stocked with dozens of different topwater lures with which to entice bass, but for Lesley Childers, there’s really only one — the legendary Zara Spook. […]

Currents

I was being taxed? Gee, I didn’t know

Dan Kibler

You know, I didn’t realize I was being “taxed” when I bought those hunting and fishing licenses at Nichols Store in Rock Hill last year. […]

Stripers on the Darkside

Phillip Gentry

It was an odd place for a reunion — the former bass pro, the dedicated sponsor, and the newspaper man who often wrote about both of them. […]

Lay the Lumber

Jeff Burleson

Meandering through century-old cypress and tupelo swamps, the tea-colored waters of the picturesque Lumber River swiftly glide from its headwaters in the sandhills of North Carolina to its confluence with the Little Pee Dee River across the South Carolina line. […]