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Warming temperatures in the spring bring lots of big bass into the shallows to spawn, with April being a tremendous month to catch nice numbers and big fish.

For Santee, spawn is the big ticket

As the calendar pages turn slowly with the winds of March blowing through the trees, it’s not hard to know that spring is just around the corner. […]

Summer food-plot plantings provide deer with a tremendous amount of supplemental protein at a time when does are nursing fawns and bucks are growing antlers.

Summer food-plot mixes are key to providing deer with protein

Jeff Burleson

Food plots play an important role in the overall management regime for raising and attracting quality whitetail deer. […]

When you can’t see well enough to sight-fish for largemouth bass, fish the predominant shallow cover in a lake and put your lure where you imagine a bass might be holding.

Cover the spawn with only one bait

Davy Hite

April is a month when bass fishermen across South Carolina start to think about the spawn. […]

Jeremy Shelton of the Charleston Angler (left) and guide Tom Siwarski of Carolina Marine Aero Adventures (right) show rookie saltwater fisherman Mark Skeen hooks, tackle and rigs.

Showing a ‘newbie’ the inshore ropes

Jeff Dennis

Mark Skeen moved to Mount Pleasant from an inland area in the “other Carolina” last year. […]

Tim and Neil Huffstetler caught the best limit of the CATT season, 22-4, to win the Lake Murray Fall Final on Dec. 6.

CATT trails’ purses total $85,000 for 2008 season

Pat Robertson

The Carolina Anglers Team Tournaments ended the 2008 season having paid out more than $85,000 to anglers in three trails on Lake Wylie, Lake Wateree and Lake Murray. […]

Call-maker Sam Pope (right) said that basic clucks, yelps and purrs have accounted for a lot of dead turkeys, if hunters practice enough to become confident in their use.

Low-Down Turkey Tactics

Terry Madewell

The world of turkey hunting does not contain many sure things. Longbeards are wary, wily and wild. […]

It’s Prime Time!

Dan Kibler

There’s no denying that the bass fishing on the Santee Cooper reservoirs is nothing compared to the “good ol’ days.” […]

Adding Color to the Deep Blue

Jeff Dennis

Finally, it’s the time that bluewater fishermen have been waiting for, to reaquaint themselves with the sound of a screaming reel. […]

Decoys can bring a gobbler the last few yards into range, but also cause him to occasionally hang up.

Each Saturday morning from 6 to 8 a.m., Upstate outdoor enthusiasts within earshot of WRIX-FM in Anderson can enjoy a lively discussions between the host, visiting outdoors experts and callers on the “Southern Woods and Water” radio show. […]

Currents

Giving honor due to a matchless foe

Dan Kibler

The first time my buddy Taz volunteered to take me into the woods and teach me how to turkey hunt, first-hand, my introductory lesson was postponed. […]