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October 29, 2026

AUTOTETHER uses radio waves instead of a lanyard to connect you to your kill switch, and it can protect up to three passengers as well.

A wireless kill switch never gets in your way

Allan Tarvid

Here’s a hassle-free substitute for that kill-switch lanyard you stopped wearing because it was always in the way. […]

C.J. and Erika Johnston of Salisbury took the big-fish award at May 7 Adam & Eve tournament on Tuckertown Lake with a 6-pound, 13-ounce bass.

Walser scores big payday in Kerr Lake BFL

Tony Garitta

Robert Walser of Lexington won the May 7 BFL North Carolina Division tournament on Kerr Lake with a 5-fish limit that weighed 14 pounds, 12 ounces. […]

Bass in the river section of a lake will be active in July and will often fall for trick worms or other Texas-rigged plastics.

Get on the move. Be ready to follow July bass

David Fritts

July can be a really good month for bass fishermen in North Carolina, but the one thing you need to understand is that you definitely can’t fish the same way the last of the month that you fished the first of the month. […]

Cataloochie Creek produces a lot of chunky rainbows like this beauty.

The ‘Top Cat’ of trout Cataloochie is one of NC’s best areas

Robert Satterwhite

Few places exist where you can fish for trout with elk looking over your shoulder, and few western North Carolina streams contain more brook trout than rainbows or brown trout. […]

Taking time to do research on the soil in an area where you plan to locate a food plot can go a long way toward making it a success.

Productive fall food plots result from planning, planting

Jeff Burleson

Our cool-season food plots often make or break us in the fall. Nothing excites a hunter more than a trophy buck prancing across one of our food plots, knee deep in a lush field of greens. […]

Backlashes

Frustration mounting over gamefish bill delay

Craig Holt

Nobody said getting a gamefish bill for red drum, spotted seatrout and striped bass passed by the North Carolina General Assembly and signed into law by the governor would be easy. […]

A fly-rod caught bream can be as fun — and tasty — as anything that swims in freshwater.

It’s bream time! Summer panfish are hard to beat

Davy Hite

I am a tournament bass fisherman by trade, and I love an occasional vacation from those green fish. […]

Casey Ashley won the Bassmaster Elite Series tournament on Lake Murray in mid-May, catching these two 3-pounders in the last 45 minutes of competition to put him over the top.

Ashley wins at Murray; Hite gives SC pros a 1-2 BASS finish

Glenn Corley

Two South Carolina pros finished first and second at the Bassmaster Elite Series tournament on Lake Murray in mid-May. […]

Fly shop owner Brandon Barber looks to the upper Broad River to escape the heat of summer and catch chunky smallmouth bass from his kayak.

On ‘Broad’-way: Upstate river has it all

Phillip Gentry

The Broad River enters the state of South Carolina as a narrow, rapidly flowing, whitewater stream just north of Gaffney and merges with the Saluda River within casting distance of the I-126 Bridge in downtown Columbia, where it flows into the historic Congaree River. […]