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Fishing
Reading Sonar in Hot Water: Where Summer Bass Stage and Why
Modern sonar makes the summer thermocline visible as a band of suspended bait and structure-holding bass that opens up entire fisheries to savvy anglers.
Fishing
Catch-and-Release Best Practices for Warmwater Species in Summer Heat
Hot summer water lowers dissolved oxygen and raises mortality on released fish. Proper handling, short fight times, and quick releases keep released bass alive.
Fishing
How Late-Spring Warming Trends Shift Bass Behavior Across the Southeast
Water temperatures climbing into the upper seventies push largemouth bass off the spawning flats into post-spawn recovery, changing tactics across the Southeast.
Fishing
South Fork Edisto River: A Blackwater Canoe-Trail Fishery Inside Aiken State Park
The South Fork Edisto carves through Aiken State Park as a designated canoe trail with redbreast sunfish, jackfish, and a mixed warmwater population for paddling anglers.
Fishing
Langley Pond: Aiken County’s 270-Acre Bream and Bass Showcase
Langley Pond spans roughly 270 acres in Aiken County and holds a strong bluegill, redear sunfish, and largemouth bass population accessible from the public boat ramp.
Hunting
Hunters Plant Wildlife Trees on New York Public Land in Record Push
A volunteer push organized by deer hunters and backed by national hunting conservation groups planted thousands of soft-mast and hard-mast trees on New York public hunting land this\u2026
Hunting
New 3,600-Acre Wateree River WMA Opens to South Carolina Hunters
A newly designated Heritage Preserve Wildlife Management Area on more than 3,600 acres along the Wateree River opens this season to South Carolina hunters and anglers. The tract\u2026
Hunting
Federal Dollars Step Up the Fight Against Chronic Wasting Disease
Chronic Wasting Disease has been creeping across the whitetail range for more than two decades, and for most of that time the response has been chronically underfunded. That\u2026
Hunting
Aiken Gopher Tortoise Heritage Preserve: Longleaf-Sandhills Hunting at Its Finest
The Aiken Gopher Tortoise Heritage Preserve sits on 1,395 acres of rolling sandhills in southern Aiken County, anchored by one of the most intact stands of mature longleaf\u2026
Hunting
Crackerneck WMA: A Quality Deer Management Showcase in Aiken County
Tucked along the Savannah River in southern Aiken County, Crackerneck Wildlife Management Area covers more than 10,400 acres of pine flatwoods, hardwood bottoms, beaver swamps, and managed old-field\u2026
Politics
City of Aiken Council Reviews Updated Stormwater Ordinance Affecting New Subdivisions
The Aiken City Council is reviewing an updated stormwater ordinance that would tighten on-site retention requirements for new residential subdivisions and commercial sites built within city limits, in\u2026