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This Bud’s for Richard Mode

Richard Mode of Morganton has spent the last three decades mobilizing outdoors-loving people into a powerful force that has impacted local, state and federal resource management decisions and legislation. […]

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Coach Dog

Thermometers in central North Carolina showed 17 degrees at 9 a.m. at the Ebenezer Road Recreation Area last February when Andre Powell backed his boat trailer toward Jordan Lake’s dark waters. […]

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Catch and release for king mackerel?

A recent news release by the N.C. Division of Marine Fisheries indicates the South Atlantic Fisheries Management Council is proposing a reduction of the total allowable catch (TAC) of mackerels (kings and Spanish) because of potential effects of new snapper-grouper regulations in Amendment 15. […]

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Swan Dive

Most late-night television addicts have seen “The Adventures of Robin Hood,” a 1938 epic that features Errol Flynn using a long bow to split a competitor’s arrow at an impossible distance. […]

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Currituck Combo

Like a dozen Junebugs tied to a kid’s kite string, a flock of widgeons circled an open-water blind in Currituck Sound last December. […]

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Blue Gold

Five years ago, aboard a now-retired 54-foot Atlantic Beach-based charterboat, the Top Hook, a strapping 6-2, 200-pound angler from Raleigh settled into a stern chair for his first tussle with a tuna. […]

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The fast track to extinction

A report released Oct. 10 by the U.S. Sportsman’s Alliance, National Shooting Sports Foundation and National Wild Turkey Federation should make American sportsmen sit up and take notice. […]

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CRFLs Not Available Until Jan. 1, 2007

The N.C. Wildlife Resources Commission, during May inland fisheries seminars at the Pisgah Hatchery, said cooperator agents and the Division of Marine Fisheries would be able to sell Coastal Recreational Fishing Licenses starting Dec. 1, 2006. […]