Bass Fishing
Knock on Wood
After a morning of intermittent success on topwater lures fished points and blowthroughs, Casey Ashley guided his boat purposefully through a field of standing timber. […]
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Cover: June 2008 (NC)
Throw a topwater plug near Wrightsville Beach this month, and you’ll be quite delighted with the results. […]
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Rough and Tumble
When summer arrives, plenty of Tar Heel anglers head for saltwater areas, and one of their favorite fish to catch is red drum. […]
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War Between The States
What was that?” said the other angler in the canoe. […]
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Enterprising Waters
Angler Dave Canaan, talking about recent fishing trips, asked about a particularly good spot. […]
Cobia
To Catch A Cobia
Perched on the gunwale and holding his boat’s T-top, Craig Odom scanned the water from just beyond the transom of his lightly rocking center-console craft to several hundred yards behind the small red balloon that marked his most-distant baitfish’s location. […]
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Pounding Flounder
When the water temperature breaks the mid-60s mark at the N.C. coast, inshore anglers start to get an itch that makes them spend all weekend on a skiff with nothing but a sandwich, a bucket of minnows, a few cold beers, and an outboard engine chugging along at its lowest speed. […]
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Gatekeeper to Paradise
Tar Heel basketball fans may envision paradise in shades of blue, but catfishermen have their own blue heaven on earth near Wadesboro. […]
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Topwater Tango
Lewis Emery of Wilmington prefers one approach to fishing for speckled trout. In fact, he’s almost as hard-core as a mountain fly-fishing purist, although his targets are measured in pounds, not inches. […]
Bass Fishing
Scavenger Stripers?
Warren Turner, president of the Striped Bass Conservation Coalition, was lecturing a group of striper fishermen one day. […]