It is a fascinating experience to drop anchor over a piece of structure at an artificial reef off the coast of South Carolina during the summer months. In the clear water, you often see dozens of ...

If there's anything hotter than July temperatures, it might be catching spadefish off the South Carolina coast. "The spades are hot," West Ashley resident Jamye Hurteau said in sharing a photo of her ...

If you’ve ever caught a spadefish, you know how hard they fight, even the small ones. Figure what kind of shine one would cut that measured 25-¼ inches long and 26-¼ in girth. When Roland Murphy of ...

I had the privilege of speaking with a gentleman last night who experienced the catch of a lifetime. Roland E. Murphy was fishing at the Cell aboard the “Kingfish” captained by Allen King and his ...

It wasn’t too long ago that rod-and-reel anglers struggled with finding a way to catch the angelfish-looking species that spearfishers were bringing to the docks in healthy numbers. Spadefish – a ...

The spadefish is distinctly flat and disk-shaped with dark brown vertical stripes on its silver body. It has a blunt-shaped head with a small mouth. It usually weighs under three pounds but can reach ...

The rotund spadefish that Ronald Murphy caught in the Chesapeake Bay the past weekend was so big that when he held it up for picture taking it appeared that he was heaving a spare tire chest high. For ...

Spadefish have invaded the inshore reefs from Ocean Isle to Topsail with many of the fish in the 3- to 4-pound range. Captain Andy Fisher reported catching seven spadefish in two hours and losing many ...

- deep-bodied disk-shaped food fish of warmer western Atlantic coastal waters ...

WWII Submarine Flag & Wheel of the U.S.S. Spadefish ...