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Rob Macelroy used a Super Spook Junior topwater lure to land a nice brace of speckled trout.

Topwater Tango

Lewis Emery of Wilmington prefers one approach to fishing for speckled trout. In fact, he’s almost as hard-core as a mountain fly-fishing purist, although his targets are measured in pounds, not inches. […]

Warren Turner, the president of the Striped Basss Conservation Coalition, often finds himself battling big stripers during the summer months, when fish are actively feeding, trying to regain the weight they lost durign the spawn.

Scavenger Stripers?

Phillip Gentry

Warren Turner, president of the Striped Bass Conservation Coalition, was lecturing a group of striper fishermen one day. […]

Wyman Brannon (left) and Jacky Singleton of Chapin won the Kyle Page benefit tournament on Lake Murray.

Bass tournament ups and downs

Pat Robertson

Adam Williamson of Ridgeway is only 21, but he has already spent enough time fishing bass tournaments to know that you can be high one day and low the next. […]

The Shooting Crony is light, inexpensive and incredibly easy to use.

This geat make shooting life easier

Gordon Hutchinson

After World War II, in the late 1940s and the decade following, the golden age of shooting known as the “Wildcatting Era” began. […]

The best bass lake? It’s Falcon!

Davy Hite

Back in early April, I fished what has to be one of the greatest bass fisheries in the world. […]

Choosing a fly rod is a matter of matching the kind of fishing you’ll be doing — what kind of fish and the size of the body of water — with the kind of rod that best fits the situation.

Match your fly rod to its task

Richard Bernabe

In at least one respect, I have to admit to being slightly envious of golfers. […]

The crew of the Maluco landed one of the first cobia of the 2008 season on April 10 around the Broad River Bridge. The fish was caught on cut squid, a good, all-around bait.

Bait and twitch will catch plenty

Jeff Dennis

Inshore fishing this month offers a variety of saltwater fish, and anglers can focus on one species or try for a mixed bag of fishing bounty. […]

Currents

A special thanks to 2 special men

Dan Kibler

As best I can remember — and it gets tougher as the years pass — my first fishing trip was not to some little farm pond somewhere, but to Georgia’s Lake Sinclair. […]