South Carolina has been blessed this year to have the two most-prestigious bass-fishing tournaments in the nation held on its waters. The Bassmasters Classic visited Lake Hartwell and Greenville this past February, and the Forrest Wood Cup, the championship of the FLW Tour, will make Lake Murray and Columbia its home base in two weeks.
As the change of seasons approaches throughout the northern hemisphere, nature’s crops of acorns, beech nuts, muscadine grapes, and persimmons are available for deer to eat in most areas, but in a little while, they will quickly be consumed.
Robert Rikard of Lexington had never seen North Carolina’s Lake Norman until the Saturday before The Bass Federation’s Southern Divisional in mid-June.
GPS units navigate by satellites that circle the earth twice a day at an altitude of almost 11,000 miles, yet the system can take you back to within a boat length of a location you saved in memory. Thinking about that makes my head hurt, so like most other fishermen, I prefer to just take the system for granted.
Summer is still the No. 1 time for anglers and their families to get out on the water to do some fishing. Without the competition from spring and fall spectator sports, many tackle shops report brisk summer business and just a lot more talkin’ about fishing. And all that talkin’ leads to more fishing.
Want to learn a new technique or tackle a lake or river you’ve never fished before. Maybe you’re traveling, on vacation or don’t have much time to learn and research the lures and techniques that work on a lake or river during a particular season.
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