From News Reports, Author at Carolina Sportsman

20-pound goldfish caught by Kentucky angler

February 12, 2019 From News Reports

Do you always keep a fishing rod in your car or truck? Hunter Anderson does, and it paid off when he visited a private pond and caught a 20-pound goldfish in Kentucky. […]

King Mackerel Tournament Series adds Southern Division

February 6, 2019 From News Reports

King mackerel tournament anglers will now have a Southern Division of the Yellowfin/Tailwalker Marine Cape Lookout Shootout series. The new division will fish out of Little River, S.C. beginning in May 2019. […]

Carter Witten named to lead N.C. Marine Patrol

February 5, 2019 From News Reports

Carter Witten replaced Dean Nelson as the top officer in the North Carolina Marine Patrol in February 2019. […]

NCWRC offering 4 free fishing clinics in February

January 31, 2019 From News Reports

The NCWRC is offering four free fly fishing clinics throughout the month of February at the John E. Pechmann Fishing Education Center in Fayetteville. […]

Virginia hunter’s Illinois non-typical is new world record

January 17, 2019 From News Reports

Luke Brewster, a Virginia bowhunter, arrowed a huge non-typical buck in Illinois in November of 2018. The buck has been crowned as the largest non-typical bow-killed buck, and as the largest buck ever taken by a hunter in North America. […]

Anglers Choice Team Goes From Alternates To Winners In Bassmaster Team Championship

January 14, 2019 From News Reports

Duo outfished 196 other teams William Samples and Charles Purcell weren’t supposed to compete in the Bassmaster Team Championship held today on the Harris Chain of Lakes in central Florida. But officials with the Anglers […]

Game warden busts female poacher on dating app

January 13, 2019 From News Reports

According to the Oklahoma Game Wardens Facebook page, a woman got caught bragging about killing a deer to a man she was conversing with on a dating app. Little did she know the man she was chatting with was an Oklahoma game warden. […]

Black sea bass season opens Feb.1 north of Cape Hatteras

January 11, 2019 From News Reports

The recreational black sea bass fishing season opens in federal water and in North Carolina waters north of Cape Hatteras on Feb. 1. The season will end on Feb. 28. […]

Oak Island Recreation Dept. offering king mackerel fishing seminar

August 25, 2018 From News Reports

King mackerel fishermen wanting to boost their catches of the big mackerel should consider attending the King Mackerel Fishing Seminar presented by the Oak Island Parks and Recreation Department on the evening of Sept. 18, 2018. The seminar will feature three hours of information and tips for catching large king mackerel and will be tailored to assist participants improve their success in the upcoming US Open King Mackerel Tournament presented by the Southport-Oak Island Chamber of Commerce on Oct. 4 to 6.

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Project ReSpeck, CCA SC contribute $25,000 for fish restoration

August 2, 2018 From News Reports

This past January, record cold weather set in across the Southeast causing a noticeable fish kill along the entire Palmetto State coast and calling into question the future of several popular species of fish important to recreational saltwater anglers.

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