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Going Primitive

L. Woodrow Ross

There is something mystical about the feel of a good primitive bow. It seems to come alive in the archer’s hands. Light, responsive and, when shot instinctively, they are very quick-handling. […]

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Dove-Day Afternoon

Jerry Dilsaver

The gray, feathered missile bobbed and weaved, riding the afternoon breeze as several loads of No. 8 lead shot narrowly missed making contact and sending it tumbling to the ground. […]

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2011-12 Game Lands Forecast

Craig Holt

North Carolina has two million acres of public hunting lands on 89 game lands that dot the landscape from the ocean to the western border, a distance of approximately 500 miles. […]

Bass Fishing

Think Small(mouth)

Bruce Ingram

Last July, when West Jefferson’s Ben Lucas and I glimpsed the deep-water ledge 50 yards downstream from us on the South Fork of the New River, we knew exactly how to double-team it. […]

Bass Fishing

‘Graduate’ Student

Tony Garitta

Max Altman, a retired high-school phys ed teacher from Angier, knows that the greatest reward an educator can
experience occurs when the student surpasses the teacher. […]

Bass Fishing

Dog Days = Bass Days?

Tim Mead

The dog days of summer. Hot, lazy, sultry days. Many believe the term “dog days” developed because it’s so hot that all dogs do is laze around the yard and pant. […]

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Reef Kings

Mike Marsh

August is hot enough to encourage second thoughts for any angler heading for the ocean on a calm day, so beginning a trip before sunrise is a great idea when the target is a big king mackerel. […]

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Raise the White Flag

Bob Goldstein

Maybe it’s the result of tight federal catch
limits, the change-over to circle hooks or the catch-and-release of almost everything, but the past few years have produced square miles of striped bass to the 60-pound class, thousands of 300-pound bluefin tuna, a historic sailfish summer, and as many white marlin as any other season.
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