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April 30, 2026

Joe Kelly likes to use old-time tube calls, and he does it with great effectiveness.

Talking Turkey

It’s turkey-talking time in the Palmetto State, and hunters are getting ready to hit the woods. […]

Blades are weapons of choice for some spring anglers.

Bodacious Bassin’

The 2006 B.A.S.S. Elite Series Santee Cooper Showdown put the exclamation mark behind the fantastic largemouth bass fishing that the lakes support. […]

Dolphins are a treat to catch because they are so beautiful when pulled from the water and they are tremendous to eat when filleted and cooked on a grill.

2007 Offshore Forecast

Walt Rhodes

The Atlantic Ocean is a really big fishing hole.

Besides the enormity and variety of gamefish populations the Atlantic hosts, the ocean borders several countries, each, no matter how large or small, vying for its fair slice of the pie, plus a few other nations who wet a line in the pond that want to crash the dessert table. […]

Cover: February 2007 (NC) – Hunting

North Carolina Sportsman

Tarheel hunters dropped some absolute beasts this season. […]

Cover: February 2007 (NC) – Fishing

North Carolina Sportsman

Several mild winters have led to an incredibly good speckled trout run. […]

One of the best lures for bass at rip rap during sunny days is a spinnerbait. The sun warms rocks and brings bass from the depths, looking for a meal of gizzard or threadfin shad.

Coach Dog

Craig Holt

Thermometers in central North Carolina showed 17 degrees at 9 a.m. at the Ebenezer Road Recreation Area last February when Andre Powell backed his boat trailer toward Jordan Lake’s dark waters. […]

The incoming tide is the best time to try to fish the Cape Lookout rock jetty.

Cronked for Reds

Mike Marsh

Red drum are versatile fish.

Now that they’ve returned in large numbers at the Carolina coast, anglers have begun targeting them all year long. […]

Trout species stocked at Helton Creek include 40 percent rainbows, 40 percent brook trout and 20 percent brown trout.

Hidden Helton

Tim Mead

Helton Creek, nestled in the hills of Ashe County, cheek-by-jowl with Virginia, is a jewel of the North Carolina Wildlife Resources delayed-harvest trout program. […]

Any trolling skirt color, as long as it’s blue-and-white, will catch yellowfins, or at least that’s the mantra of most N.C. charter captains.

Stan the Yellowfin Man

Mike Marsh

Many Tar Heel anglers recognize Capt. Stan “Stanman” Jarusinski as one of the top king mackerel tournament fishermen in the region, winning and placing in numerous tournaments as well as winning the 2005 SKA championship for boats 23-feet-and-under. […]

Mark Bedell and Matt Wirt show Wirt’s kayak-skiff “mothership” used to transport paddle crafts closer to their ultimate fishing destination. Some good fishing territories are so distant that paddling a kayak would tire an angler before he made his first cast.

Power to the Paddle

Jerry Dilsaver

We’ll be taking a right at the next junction in the creek and work our way over to where a school of red drum has been holding for the past several weeks,” said Mark Bedell as he eased his kayak closer in the small creek. […]