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Getting the opportunity to hang a big buck is a process that can be months in the making, but no time is more important as the last few seconds before you squeeze the trigger and the first few seconds after the shot.

Get on track and find bucks after the shot

It takes hours, days, sometimes years to figure out the daily travel patterns of a trophy buck. These grown-ups are scholars in the wilderness, living long enough to sense trouble from most of the average hunter’s tricks. […]

Cover: October 2015 (NC)

North Carolina Sportsman

There will be plenty of chances for hunters to put their eyes on deer this month, if they pick the right stand locations, have their weapons shooting straight, and know what to do before and after the shot. […]

Lake Hartwell produced this trophy striper for Adam Rice during the fall, when they move out of deep water and within range of plenty of fishermen.

When cool means hot – Fall weather brings Lake Hartwell’s stripers out of deep water and into a big feeding zone

Pete Rogers

When it comes to filling a cooler with striped bass from Lake Hartwell, October is a tough month to beat. […]

It never hurts to hang your stand in a tree the provides some cover to keep deer from spotting you at a distance, especially later in the season.

Don’t bark up the wrong tree; put your deer stand in the right one

Pete Rogers

As hunters prepare for the peak of deer season or the changes in deer behavior, many are looking at hanging or moving tree stands into just the right locations. […]

Guide Buster Rush can load up a stringer with big crappie by fishing a series of several brush piles in deep water.

Stalk fall Santee slabs – Sample Lake Marion’s great fall crappie action

Terry Madewell

The long rod bowed into a deep, inverted “U” as another slab crappie was swung aboard the boat. Guide Buster Rush grabbed his client’s fish and sized it up. […]

Shooting a flintlock rifle makes everything an adventure.

Powder burns aren’t all that bad, especially this month when primitive weapon season arrives in the Upstate

Phillip Gentry

Other than a handful of Wildlife Management Areas below the fall line, primitive weapons seasons for deer in South Carolina have always been an Upstate thing. Maybe the proximity to the mountains is what beckons hunters to squeeze in a few days between stick-and-string and the heavy artillery to honor those pioneers who settled the land with their trusty smokepole at their side. […]

Fall kings are bigger than their spring and summer brethren, so many fish like this 15-pounder get released as anglers wait for bigger ones.

Kings on the throne – The fall run of king mackerel off the Cape Fear River and Oak Island, N.C.

Jerry Dilsaver

October is a special time in the ocean around the mouth of the Cape Fear River at Southport, where king mackerel gather between and try to devour every baitfish they can, arriving the last week or so of September and increasing in numbers until mid-October, when the slowly begin to move off the beach. […]

Deer hunters, it’s time to get ready for the rut

Jeff Burleson

The rut is fast approaching for hunters in the Carolinas. Are you ready? […]

Fall is prime time for speckled trout in the Swansboro area.

The speck revival – Swansboro is playing host to a speckled trout revival

Craig Holt

Fred Slann, a guide from New Bern, his friend Chris Walker of Sea Island, N.J., and a visiting writer had one of the most fantastic trout-fishing days ever 10 Octobers ago in the North River east of Beaufort. […]

The author caught this healthy speckled trout on a shallow-running crankbait in a marsh north of Georgetown.

Splash those Georgetown speckled trout

Jeff Burleson

After a long, hot summer, fall has arrived on the calendar, and it true fall conditions should arrive this month. For the inshore angler with a passion for casting lures at grass lines and oyster points, the fun-filled October session is the just what the doctor ordered, because a squadron of speckled trout show up looking to stretch their stomachs on shrimp, mullet and menhaden. […]