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S.C. shrimp baiting season opens tomorrow, Sept. 9

“Let’s go shrimping this evening. Tides are going to be perfect,” said Ken Nutter to his long time fishing buddy last fall. Both men are experienced at shrimp baiting, and even though they fish together several times a year, they’d never been shrimping together. […]

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Quail hunting still popular throughout Carolinas

Quail used to be a popular game bird for hunters. They were around in good enough numbers throughout the 70s to make for some good hunting memories, but due to a number of factors, the wild quail population took a sharp decline that it’s never recovered from, despite some pretty strong efforts on the parts of landowners and many agencies like the NWTF, Quail Forever, and the National Bobwhite Quail Initiative. […]

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Catch your fish of a lifetime in the Pamlico Sound

If you want to catch the fish of a lifetime, you just have to go where they are, when they are there. It’s as simple as that. And while a lot of anglers will continue to fish the water that is closest to their home, hoping that one day the big one will bite, other anglers broaden their range, and go where the big fish are, and when the big fish are there. […]

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12-year-old sets new spotted sunfish state record

Elijah Crabtree, a 12-year-old from Bladenboro, is one of North Carolina’s newest freshwater fish record-holders. Crabtree caught a 7.7-ounce spotted sunfish, a close relative of bluegills and redbreast sunfish, and it is the newly-established state record. […]