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May 4, 2026

Cover: October 2010 (NC)

Attract big bucks to your land this season, and you’ll have a happy fall. […]

A great stringer of black crappie like this one biologist Kevin Dockendort shows off, is the result of knowing how and when slabs utilize different areas of the rivers that feed Albemarle Sound.

Blackwater Slabs

Some days it’s hard to separate the biologist from the fisherman. With the more temperate days of October at hand, Kevin Dockendorf was playing fisherman. […]

Steve Gentry have put a lot of slab crappie in his boat by fishing live minnows and slow-trolling them vertically over offshore structure like humps, brushpiles and creek channels. The “tight-lining” method requires some good equipment, including rods, rod holders and depthfinders.

Tighten up for Fall Slabs

Phillip Gentry

In days gone by, crappie fishing was a springtime, single-rod venture aimed at filling a stringer with slabs and a frying pan with tender white fillets. […]

String-stretching smoker kings abound off the coast along the North Carolina-South Carolina border throughout the fall, with the first consistent numbers of fish moving closer to the beach when the water temperature drops back into the 70s.

Big Kings at Little River

Dan Kibler

As Labor Day approaches, a lot of sportsmen turn their attention, at least momentarily, to thoughts of dove shoots and Thermacell and bucks in velvet. […]

Nick Morris of Colerain (right) is all smiles after boating a gaffer dolphin aboard The Spray.

Slipping out of Pirates Cove Marina and heading toward Oregon Inlet, Capt. Harold Smith was steering The Spray, his 61-foot sportfisher, through the pre-dawn darkness toward the bluewater, when the radio crackled. […]

Bow-Bending Basics

Craig Holt

Danny Viverette of Apex hunted deer with firearms for more than 30 years until deciding he wanted a different challenge and returned to hunting with a bow.

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