Bass Fishing
Wading, floating rivers for smallmouth bass is a summer option for North Carolina anglers
Beat the heat; get wet and catch river smallmouths. […]
Articles by Marty Shaffner
Features
Earn your spurs by targeting old gobblers this spring
Old, smart toms with long, curved spurs are the ultimate prize for a turkey hunter. […]
Bear
Surry County man harvests No. 3 all-time black bear
Eddie Barr’s black bear from Surry County, N.C. in 2016 will be officially scored and certified as the No. 3 biggest black bear ever scored, and No. 1 highest-scoring black bear ever killed by a hunter, during the 2019 Boone & Crockett Club’s annual banquet in August. […]
Features
Preseason scouting for Carolina turkey hunters
Before turkey season arrives, do plenty of scouting to learn areas birds are roosting, feeding, and strutting to get a leg up on tagging that first tom. […]
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The trout mecca – Cherokee is North Carolina’s trout-fishing mecca
When most people think of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians and its 57,000 acres deep in western North Carolina’s mountains, the tribal casino probably comes to mind. But if you are fisherman, you know the best bet on the reservation is the trout fishing. […]
Sidebars
When can you hunt crows?
Crows are a federally protected species, and both North Carolina and South Carolina have set hunting seasons for them. […]
Features
Something to crow about
A lot of people ask me, “Why would anybody hunt crows?” I usually answer. “It’s fun.” Hunting crows is a great way to polish your wing-shooting skills for duck or dove season, and it is pure fun. […]
Ducks
Ammo for wood ducks: the long and short of It
Veteran duck hunters Bobby Mead, Luke Mathis and Mike Jolly all shoot 12-gauge shotguns when targeting wood ducks, but the similarities end there. […]
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Everyman’s duck
As I stood in the dark swamp, knee deep in water, I could hear the whistling of duck wings as they flew by and landed in flooded timber around me. Looking up, I could see ducks in groups of three to as many as 10 silhouetted against the breaking light of the morning sky. […]