Bass Fishing
Huge bass surprises farm pond angler
Phillip Bridges wasn’t targeting big bass — or even bass at all — when he caught a 10..69-pound largemouth from a farm pond in Snow Camp, N.C. on March 23, 2019 […]
Articles by Dan Kibler
Big Bass
Falls of Neuse spits out huge bass in tournament
A 10.69-pound largemouth bass helped Johnny Wilder and his partner Mike Harris take second place in a bass fishing tournament on Falls of the Neuse Lake on March 16, 2019. […]
Events & Announcements
Conservation leader Bridges will join N.C. Sports Hall of Fame
Eddie Bridges of Greensboro, N.C., who currently serves as executive director of the N.C. Heritage Foundation, will be inducted into the N.C. Sports Hall of Fame on May 3, 2019 in Raleigh. […]
Deer Hunting
Big 8-point buck goes down in Anson County, N.C.
Eric Nance of Peachland, N.C. was hunting with a rifle he got for Christmas last year when he killed this Anson County 8-point buck that’s been green-scored at 143 4/8 inches. […]
Deer Hunting
Catawba hunter kills big 11-point buck
Bradley Blackmon of Catawba, N.C. killed a big 11-point buck in Catawba County on Nov. 8, 2018 and won Carolina Sportsman’s November Bag-A-Buck contest. […]
Deer Hunting
King, N.C. hunter kills giant 9-point buck in Stokes County
Greg Robertson, who once held the No. 2 spot on North Carolina’s archery buck record list, killed a 157-inch, 9-point buck on Nov. 9, 2018 in Stokes County, N.C. […]
Deer of the Year
Watauga County hunter takes down huge ‘passing through’ buck
Lever-action rifle with iron sights makes quick work of 162-inch, 11-point mountain buck Just passing through. That’s what Chase McLean of Boone, N.C., thought about the 162-inch, 11-point buck he killed on Thanksgiving afternoon. He’d […]
Deer Hunting
There’s a storm a comin’
Southern snowstorms provide great deer hunting opportunities With the Carolinas facing a winter storm this weekend — snow is predicted across much of the Southeast on Sunday and Monday — savvy deer hunters know to […]
Deer of the Year
Avery County hunter tags 18-point non-typical
Huge mountain buck finally comes out before dark Zack Laws and the guys in his hunt club in the mountains of Avery County, N.C., took on a management plan a couple of years ago that […]
Deer of the Year
Snow Camp hunter shoots unique-racked trophy in Alamance County
Jason Dunn is used to killing bucks with wide racks that aren’t very tall on the farm he hunts around his home in Snow Camp, N.C.
Deer of the Year
Oxford hunter drops huge Granville County buck
Chase Watson of Oxford, N.C. is glad he’s a patient deer hunter. For two years, he had a big buck in trail-camera photos on a farm in Granville County and had let him walk.
Featured
South Carolina turkey harvest down 6.4 percent in 2018 spring season
South Carolina turkey hunters wrapped their tags around 17,939 birds this past spring, a 6.4-percent drop from 2017 levels that may reflect poor breeding success over the past handful of years or signal a return to an “average” harvest after harvest increases the past two springs credited to expanded season dates.