Fishing
At Ernest F. Hollings Ace Basin National Wildlife Refuge
Fishing is extremely popular within the ACE Basin area and, the refuge offers a wide variety of quality fishing opportunities for anglers to catch largemouth bass, bream, crappie and catfish.
Public fishing is permitted only in areas marked on the maps in the refuge brochure.
Impounded waters contained within dikes and levees are opened for fishing seasonally from legal sunrise to legal sunset in the Beaufort County portion of the refuge only.
Boat use is not allowed within seasonally opened Refuge waters. Only bank fishing is permitted.
Only attended hook and line fishing is permitted. Use of nets, trot-lines, set-lines, baskets, yo-yo’s, traps, jug-lines, spears, gigs, and stupefying substances are prohibited
