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April 24, 2024

Tides and fish wait for no angler

Most coastal fishermen understand that tides rise and fall each day and times change, but they rarely take the time to learn enough to really understand the tides. […]

Low water levels have high side

David Fritts

I love to go deer hunting in November, and the way our lakes are drying up across North Carolina, that may be my only option. […]

Haw River’s Inman takes Buggs BFL

Tony Garitta

Mark Inman of Haw River won the Sept. 8-9 Wal-Mart Bass Fishing League North Carolina Division Super Tournament after two difficult days of fishing at Kerr Lake. […]

North Carolina loses a sportsman

Craig Holt

The first time I met Joe Don Sawyer, I didn’t see him. I only heard his laughing voice, stretching familiar words into odd-sounding shapes as he spoke in his lilting Down East brogue to his best friend, Tonnie Davis of Roxboro. […]

Are your guns ready for deer season?

Gordon Hutchinson

We were sighting in several rifles for a friend last year — each year it seems he has another boy old enough to start deer hunting, and another rifle gets added to the batch I have to tune in on my range. […]

Is that on-screen fish really a fish?

Allan Tarvid

Fish I.D. features that display cartoon-like fish symbols have been around since fish finders became computerized and incorporated LCD screens, and the controversy about whether the feature helps or hurts your fishing has been around just as long. […]

It’s time for some maintenance

Davy Hite

Like a lot of bass fishermen, I hate to have to do maintenance on anything or do a big clean-up. It’s tough when you’re traveling and fishing almost every day for months, because when you get home, or when you have a day to rest, you don’t want to spend it cleaning your reels or working on the little things that keep your boat pristine. […]