High Tides and Tall Tails
Safety first is no joke
I had something else planned for this month but felt I needed to delay it and talk a little about boating safety because, so far, 2013 has been a tough one for North Carolina fishermen. […]
Columns
Greener Pastures
Plant a banana (lily)
It’s never too early to think about ways to attract waterfowl for the 2013 fall season. In fact, March is the optimum time to establish a cost-effective waterfowl forage called the banana water lily — Nymphaea mexicana — especially on those permanently flooded **sites where traditional upland planting is not possible. […]
Inshore Fishing
Sight-fishing cool for cold
Sight-fishing is the pinnacle of inshore action for many anglers, and redfish are very suited to be the targets. […]
Bass Fishing
Time to crank ’em up
Across South Carolina, March is a tremendous month to get on some really big bass, and I try to take advantage of every chance I’ve got to get on the water. […]
Backlashes
Politicians, NRA miss target again
Millions of words — some accurate, many inaccurate — have been spoken and written about the Dec. 14 school shooting and mass murder at Sandy Hook Elementary School. […]
Fishing Tournaments
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. […]
General
Repeating Derringer…
My favorite daughter walked in the door one evening, after a shift of five nights straight as an RN in her hometown emergency room. […]
Freshwater Fishing
The other Nantahala
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. […]
Freshwater Fishing
Santee up for a change
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. […]
Bass Fishing
Paddle up a striped bass
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. […]