“To have success on the river, have a good technique in pitching soft plastics,” he said. “It’s more pitching and dropping baits in these spots than it is casting.”

A diet study revealed that Cooper River bass prey on a bottom-dwelling fish called a fat sleeper. Lamprecht said tubes fished on the bottom will mimic this forage species.

South Carolina has a load of bass-fishing opportunity. You might have your old favorites, but chances are there’s another hotspot only a short distance away. l

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