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A mayfly is one of the indicators anglers should look for when deciding which fly to use for trout.

Mayfly hatch is trout harbinger

Each March, sports junkies across the country turn their attention to a certain college basketball tournament. […]

It makes more sense to Lauer, a former Hatteras fishing guide, to make the short drive to an Edisto Creek rather than gassing up a boat to go search for specks.

Taking it to the Bank

One day last year I laid an open box of 17 MirrOLures — no two alike — in front of Ken Lauer and asked him to select one for the trout fishing we were planning the next morning in the Edisto River basin. […]

Ned Connelly nets an American or white shad at Lock and Dam. No. 1. Now he has catfish bait that’ll work well.

Cape Fear’s No. 1 Spot

Mike Marsh

Jackie Blanchard made a half-circle into the parking lot at the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers boating-and-picnic area at Lock and Dam No. 1 at King’s Bluff in Bladen County. […]

Tremendous brown trout, such as this 7-pounder, draw anglers to Jocassee.

Deep Bites

Richard Bernabe

The first thing you notice after arriving at Lake Jocassee is that it’s no ordinary southern impoundment. […]

Greenwood veteran angler Bill Brookshire uses a 7- to 8-foot-long fly rod to fish vertically for crappies at boat docks each spring.

Karaoke Crappie

Phillip Gentry

Surveying the landscape, seeing the boat docks, bridges, river arms, and just the general atmosphere of Lake Greenwood, even a novice angler can tell this is a place to catch fish. […]

Alex White and his dad, Bob, of Hickory, N.C., found redfish by using hardbaits.

Hardheads for Reds

Walt Rhodes

Standing on the bow of the flats boat, I felt like a ready-made hamburger under the heat lamp after the lunch crowd was long gone. […]

Joe Kelly likes to use old-time tube calls, and he does it with great effectiveness.

Talking Turkey

Terry Madewell

It’s turkey-talking time in the Palmetto State, and hunters are getting ready to hit the woods. […]

Blades are weapons of choice for some spring anglers.

Bodacious Bassin’

Walt Rhodes

The 2006 B.A.S.S. Elite Series Santee Cooper Showdown put the exclamation mark behind the fantastic largemouth bass fishing that the lakes support. […]

Dolphins are a treat to catch because they are so beautiful when pulled from the water and they are tremendous to eat when filleted and cooked on a grill.

2007 Offshore Forecast

Walt Rhodes

The Atlantic Ocean is a really big fishing hole.

Besides the enormity and variety of gamefish populations the Atlantic hosts, the ocean borders several countries, each, no matter how large or small, vying for its fair slice of the pie, plus a few other nations who wet a line in the pond that want to crash the dessert table. […]

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