Backlashes
Red wolf genie is out of the bottle
Since 1988, many people have wondered when the decision to release red wolves in eastern North Carolina would return to haunt the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. […]
Columns
Fishing Tournaments
Big flathead anchors win
At about 1:30 a.m. on Sunday, May 26, Justin Barger of Hickory and Brandon Miller of Salisbury brightened the night sky by dragging a 46.9-pound yellow-hued flathead catfish into their boat from High Rock Lake. […]
Inshore Fishing
Tie one on, and hold on
In the not so distant past, choices for inshore fishing were limited to a handful of different items, especially in the world of artificial lures. […]
Inshore Fishing
Vudu Shrimp
Can an artificial lure — a soft plastic — outfish a natural creature? That day has arrived and it’s like magic, hence lure’s name, thanks to Ken Chaumont of Lacassine. […]
Hunting
The building of ‘Beulah Belle’
In the late ’40s and ’50s, the United States was undergoing a boom economy, recovering from restricted materiel supplies that resulted from World War II. […]
General
Keeping it clean
LCD screen brightness, contrast and resolution improve with every new generation of marine electronics. […]
Freshwater Fishing
Bless the wild brook trout
Brook trout are easy to locate and easy to catch; getting to them is the hard part. Native brooks inhabit the headwaters of mountain streams, the wild, hard-to-reach sections of creeks accessible only by foot where the water is pure and cold, places choked with rhododendron and mountain laurel. […]
Freshwater Fishing
It’s hot, but so is fishing
Striper season officially shuts down from June through September, so the focus moves to other species, but there’s plenty of fish that continue to bite well throughout the summer. […]
Fishing
A quick rinse is the ticket
Fishermen who fish in brackish or saltwater either know the evils of salt or are due for a rather rude and possibly expensive awakening. […]
General
Fertilizer is food-plot key
Living creatures, whether of animal or plant descent, are sensitive organisms with unique requirements for life. […]