Articles by Craig Holt

About Craig Holt
Craig Holt of Snow Camp has been an outdoor writer for almost 40 years, working for several newspapers, then serving as managing editor for North Carolina Sportsman and South Carolina Sportsman before becoming a full-time free-lancer in 2009.
Bass Fishing

Mountain Gem

Craig Holt

The sky was gray during a mild January day last year, as Tracy Adams launched his bass boat at W. Kerr Scott Lake near Wilkesboro. […]

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Racking Up at Rougemont

Craig Holt

Northern Durham and southern Person counties have had a reputation for years as areas that produce some of North Carolina’s most-impressive trophy deer. […]

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His Brother’s Keeper

Craig Holt

Thomas Hemby of Ayden was riding a four-wheeler through the woods and fields of a Pitt County farm June 6, 2005.

At the time, Hemby, 32, was a successful sub-contracter who owned a local house-framing business. Life was good and profitable as the building boom was in full bloom. […]

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Paintball Doves & Granville Deer

Craig Holt

When the Wake County Wildlife Club gave out awards for North Carolina’s top white-tailed bucks of 2006 last March at the Dixie Deer Classic, one of the top eight-pointers belonged to 11-year-old Andrew Watson of Oxford. […]

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Hamilton pushes Camo Coalition

Craig Holt

Richard “Dick” Hamilton, former executive director of the N.C. Wildlife Resources Commission, wasted no time in putting his talents to use for N.C. wildlife after being forced out of the WRC.

Since Oct. 1, he’s been working with the N.C. Wildlife Federation, helping that group form its “Camouflage Coalition.” […]

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North Carolina loses a sportsman

Craig Holt

The first time I met Joe Don Sawyer, I didn’t see him. I only heard his laughing voice, stretching familiar words into odd-sounding shapes as he spoke in his lilting Down East brogue to his best friend, Tonnie Davis of Roxboro. […]