It wasn't the fishing trip of a lifetime, and it wasn't meant to be. It was meant to be a winter escape from the chilly Charleston weather and enjoy visiting a place my wife and I had heard ab…

David Fladd started the Release Over 20 program to protect spotted seatrout, but it now includes flounder and sheepshead. 

The holiday season always brings on bouts of nostalgia for me. And coupled with a recent brief stint of cold weather, I began reminiscing, thinking back to a fortuitous moment on a cold December day more than 40 years ago when I was hanging out in a local tackle shop and struck up a casual conversation.

What's the difference between a great day of fishing and wanting to pull your hair out because you can't make the fish bite? Sometimes it's time, or distance, or location. Sometimes it's all three.

There's fishing and there's catching. No one knows that better than fishing guides.

Capt. Robert Olsen has cashed plenty of checks while fishing king mackerel tournaments, but the one he just deposited for winning the inaugural Hang Em' High Kingfish Invitational was what he called life-changing.

The South Carolina Fall Classic King Mackerel Series continues to grow, drawing 113 boats this year.

One of the favorite activities of many saltwater fishing enthusiasts around Charleston is the fall trout bite. With the water temperature dipping into the low 70s, spotted seatrout activity is on the rise for these fun-fighting and delectable creatures.

The month of October is a favorite for many fishing guides along the South Carolina coast. And with good reason.

Here's what you need to catch fish without hooks, rods and reels. 

A great white shark is lurking in the waters at the Edisto 60 Reef. And while you might be able to hook the 11-foot giant, there's no way you'll be able to reel it in.

South Carolina is known as one of the top states in the country for its largemouth bass fishing. But the largemouth bass has an overlooked cousin that also inhabits the waters of the Palmetto State.

When the dams were completed in the early 1940s creating lakes Marion and Moultrie – the Santee Cooper lakes – there was no thought of a major fishery arising. Damming the rivers was expected …

I have to confess I frequently enjoy pancakes and tacos during the breakfast hour. No, not those kind of pancakes and tacos; the pancakes and tacos that describe how a net is cast in an effort…

Student Angler League Tournament Trail events are one-day tournaments in which student anglers fish for red drum or largemouth bass.

Boaters on Lake Murray may notice dead or dying striped bass in the water over the next several weeks.

Jennifer Schall of Summerville caught a 132-pound, 6-ounce alligator gar in Texas.

South Carolina is about to hit the peak for tarpon fishing as water temperatures rise.

Wally Jenkins will be succeeded as program coordinator of the SC Governor's Cup Billfishing Series by Amy Dukes, who has served as tournament coordinator during the same 14-year time frame.

A sailfish released 40 minutes before the end of its final fishing day in the Edisto Invitational Billfish Tournament helped the crew of Inappropriate clinch the 2021 South Carolina Governor's Cup Billfishing Series.

You don't always catch a state record when you fish for catfish in the Santee Cooper lake system, but the opportunity is certainly there. Three of the five recognized catfish species in the South Carolina state record program came from Lake Moultrie or the Cooper River.

Mas Pescado, captained by Billy Freeman, landed the only fish weighing more than 40 pounds to win the top prize in the Hooked On Miracles Presented by Key West Boats king mackerel tournament fished out of Ripley Light Yacht Club on July 17.

Panfish aren't the most glamorous species caught by fishermen wetting their lines in the famed Santee Cooper lakes — Lake Marion and Lake Moultrie — where anglers travel from across the countr…

I still have vivid memories of my first encounter with a bonnethead shark. Over the years, I've caught many sharks, including some that weighed hundreds of pounds. Bonnetheads don't get that b…

For many Lowcountry residents a popular way to celebrate the Fourth of July is holding a crab crack.

Baker Bishop, a businessman from Sullivan's Island, finished third in the 47th annual Don Hawley Invitational Fly Fishing Tarpon Tournament held in the Florida Keys.

South Carolina has joined a number of states in an effort to protect and improve flounder populations.

Catches of large dolphin earned teams competing in the 2021 South Carolina Mahi Series some big paydays for the event that ended June 5.

Participants in the Georgetown Blue Marlin Tournament made wise decisions when they elected to use Thursday and Friday as their two fish days for the first of three 2021 South Carolina Governo…

The state record for tripletail is a 33-pound, 8-ounce catch made in the Hilton Head area in 2005, but the average South Carolina tripletail weighs around six pounds.

Friday was another big day for anglers participating in the Georgetown Blue Marlin Tournament, the first event in the 2021 South Carolina Governor's Cup Billfishing Series. Sixty-three of the …

The return of the S.C. Governor's Cup Billfishing Series is a sign that life is returning to normal for the Palmetto State's offshore fishing community.

Nicole Colwell, a business teacher at Berea High School, was fishing with her father off the coast of Edisto Beach when she landed a 173-pound, 5-ounce spinner shark on April 18. 

May is the right time of year for South Carolina cobia anglers. If only the weather would cooperate.