South Carolina's Robinson prepping for Bassmaster Classic February 01 at 5:41 pm Lyman’s Marty Robinson will be fishing his first Bassmaster Classic, and just making the B.A.S.S. championship is an accomplishment a long time in the making. He has put in five years as a Bassmaster Elite Series pro, and years more before that at lower-level competition.
So Robinson is not about to waste the opportunity.
“I’ve tried to do everything I could to prepare,” he said. “I’m pulling everything out for this one.”
Waterfowl Photo Contest voting begins February 01 at 2:21 pm The contest, which was free to all registered users of SouthCarolinaSportsman.com, features photos from this year’s waterfowl season. Users will choose the ultimate winner of the contest by voting on their favorite photo from among four finalist images as chosen by site administrators.
The two bills, introduced in the House last April by a multitude of representatives, had worked their way through the legislative process all the way to second reading in the Senate during the final week of the regular session in 2011. The bills received third reading in the Senate, the House concurred and they were ratified Jan. 26.
Youth waterfowl hunting set for Feb. 4-5 January 31 at 10:07 am Young hunters can get in one last waterfowl hunt before the season closes in the special Federal Youth Days set for Feb. 4-5, the South Carolina Department of Natural Resources has announced.
The hunt is open only to those younger than 16 years old, and hunters must be accompanied by someone at least 18 years old. The adult chaperon is not allowed to carry a gun or hunt, and does not have to be licensed.
Col. Alvin Taylor named SCDNR director January 30 at 9:47 am The South Carolina Department of Natural Resources Board named Col. Alvin Taylor as director of the agency Thursday (Jan. 26), the agency announced. Taylor replaces John Frampton, who is retiring in March.
Taylor of Yonges Island in Charleston County replaced Col. J. Alvin Wright as deputy director of the S.C. Department of Natural Resources Law Enforcement Division in 2004.
February issue of South Carolina Sportsman now available January 20 at 1:03 pm Lake Moultrie is the smaller of the two reservoirs that make up the sprawling Santee Cooper system, but at 60,000 acres, it’s still a big puddle of water.
Abernathy takes final Bag-a-Buck session January 18 at 3:35 pm Jordan Abernathy of Cowpens told his father that all he wanted for Christmas was to find a big Cherokee County buck he shot the afternoon of Dec. 21.
Abernathy hit the 12-point buck twice after stumbling on him walking through a pine thicket to his deer stand during a break in a day-long rain. After he shot the buck, the rain started again, wiping out the blood trail and forcing him to come back later with a dog.
Commercial shrimp trawling season closes Jan. 17 January 13 at 7:45 am The commercial shrimping season closes in state waters at 7 p.m. on Jan. 17, the South Carolina Department of Natural Resources announced.
North Augusta hunter tags huge North Carolina bruin January 04 at 4:20 pm A North Augusta hunter received a North Carolina black bear hunt as a present from her husband, but she got more than she bargained for when she bagged the largest Tarheel bruin ever killed by a female hunter.
Vilena Locklear Hunt dispatched the 742-pound bear on Dec. 23 while hunting in North Carolina’s Beaufort County.
Senate committee probing Frampton retirement issue January 02 at 9:17 am The chairman of the Senate Fish, Game and Forestry Committee has launched an inquiry into whether John Frampton, director of the South Carolina Department of Natural Resources, voluntarily planned to retired this month or was told to do so.
Frampton, 63, announced Nov. 1 that he planned to retire effective Jan. 15, but at the December meeting of the Natural Resources Board he responded to a question about his decision by saying that boar chair Caroline Rhodes of Charleston told him the board wanted him to retire three months earlier than he had previously planned.
SCDNR recovers yellowfin tuna tag for first time December 23, 2011 at 8:24 am A yellowfin tuna tagged nine years ago off the South Carolina coast was caught last year along West Africa near Mauritania, the South Carolina Department of Natural Resources has learned.
The tagged fish weighed just less than 15 pounds when it was initially captured, tagged and released on April 20, 2001, by a volunteer worker as part of the SCDNR’s gamefish tagging program, the agency said. It was tagged just south of the Bahamas’ Cat Island.
Early Frampton retirement as SCDNR director forced by Haley-appointed directors December 22, 2011 at 8:54 am John Frampton, who announced his retirement as director of the South Carolina Department of Natural Resources on Nov. 1 saying he wanted to spend more time with his family, was reportedly forced to retire early by the DNR board, it has been learned.
Frampton, who has worked with SCDNR for more than 37 years, the last 8 1/2 years as director of the agency, announced Nov. 1 that he would retire effective Jan. 15. But at the Dec. 8 meeting of the Natural Resources Board, he was granted an extension until March 16.
The first “Freshwater Series” feature shows fishermen different places and techniques for catching crappie, bass and catfish on Lake Wylie.
Recreational shallow-water grouper season to close on Jan. 1 December 21, 2011 at 4:10 pm Just after the ball hits bottom in Times Square on New Year’s Eve, recreational fishermen across the Southeast Atlantic will add shallow-water grouper to the growing list of offshore bottom species that are off limits.
The annual closure for the spawning season goes into effective at 12:01 a.m. on Jan. 1, with the possession of red grouper, gag grouper, black grouper, scamp grouper and several others prohibited until 12:01 a.m. on May 1.
