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Ken Tucker (left) and Aaron Ciucevich won the NCCATS event on Lake Norman in mid-January with these two big blue catfish.

Norman spits out big cats

Ken Tucker of Lincolnton and Aaron Ciucevich of Harrisburg brought two blue cats to the scales weighing 55.7 pounds to top a field of 21 teams at the Jan. 12 N.C. Catfish Association Tournament Series event at Lake Norman. […]

The Diamondback DB9 is a fun little gun to shoot, and is small enough to easily conceal.

Repeating Derringer…

Gordon Hutchinson

My favorite daughter walked in the door one evening, after a shift of five nights straight as an RN in her hometown emergency room. […]

A lone fisherman works a section of the lower Nantahala River, one of North Carolina’s top-drawer trout streams.

The other Nantahala

Robert Satterwhite

The Nantahala River in Macon and Swain counties is primarily known for its challenging white-water rapids that attract paddlers — amateur as well as Olympic-class — by the thousands during the summer and fall, it is also widely recognized as one of the mountain area’s premier trout streams, so good that Trout Unlimited included it on its list of the top 100 trout streams in the United States — along with the Davidson River. […]

Guide Linwood Thornhill said February usually features consistently good action on catfish on the Santee Cooper lakes.

Santee up for a change

Terry Madewell

February fishing on the Santee Cooper lakes can be likened to the calm before the storm, except the winds of change are already blowing a bit of a breeze. […]

Brad Knight is a threat to Lake Hartwell stripers when he launches his specially rigged kayak.

Paddle up a striped bass

Phillip Gentry

Taken out of context, the scene may have seemed unusual, even comical. In the middle was a boat considered small by Lake Hartwell standards: a 14-foot kayak. […]

Dealers will show up with boats at a number of different shows over the next two months, including the Cape Fear Wildlife Expo.

It’s Showtime!

Jerry Dilsaver

Even during a mild winter, it is still winter, and there are times best spent indoors. […]

With preferred foods often depleted in winter, deer will turn to any kind of browse they can find and consume.

Pour the feed to ’em

Jeff Burleson

Being well below the Mason-Dixon Line, the Carolinas are definitely in the South, but these southern paradises usually experience a winter with freezing temperatures and icy precipitation. […]

It’s a ride of several hours from Murrells Inlet to the bluewater, but rewards like this big wahoo make the trip worthwhile.

The ocean calls

Bryan Bowers

Offshore in February? Sounds crazy to some, but others know very well that February fishing is great off the coast, starting just a few miles out all the way to the Gulf Stream. […]

A long, slender jerkbait is one of the best lures around to catch winter bass.

Try a jerkbait this month

David Fritts

A lot of bass fishermen really want to get out on the water in February. A lot of them haven’t fished in better than a month; they’ve been sitting around, maybe getting a little cabin fever, organizing all their tackle and going to boat shows to see what’s out there. […]

Female bass will stir this month when they feel the water temperature beginning to crawl upward.

Big-bass time is here!

Davy Hite

If you have read my column for a few years, you know what’s coming in February. I’d like to talk about something else this month, but I just can’t. […]