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Cover: April 2013 (NC) – Fishing
It’s time for big speckled trout in New River, while across North Carolina it’s turkey time for hunters. […]
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Cover: April 2013 (SC) – Hunting
Dolphin are on the menu for blue-water anglers this month off the South Carolina coast, while mountain hunters will have their sights on gobblers. […]
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Cover: April 2013 (SC) – Fishing
Dolphin are on the menu for blue-water anglers this month off the South Carolina coast, while mountain hunters will have their sights on gobblers. […]
Bass Fishing
Sutton’s spring blitz
When the historic port city of Wilmington shows up on most anglers’ radar, the bountiful inshore and offshore fisheries quickly come to mind. […]
Bass Fishing
Prespawn Patrol - Tips for bass fishing success during the prespawn
Pickles and ice cream, donuts with lots of sprinkles, Cheese Whiz and anything with chocolate – pregnancy cravings are a fact of life, for a soon-to-be mom eating for two (or more).
Expectant bass might not crave anything odd, but they’re all about packing their bellies for their forthcoming spawn. Learn where and how to locate these fish and you can, ahem, “expect” your own delivery of rod-bending fun.
First, consider the basics of where they’ll spawn. Creeks, coves, backwater canals. Pretty much any shallow habitat with good sunlight and some type of cover will do. […]
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Gentlemen prefer blondes – Look to Lake Marion for a crappie fishing ‘white-out’
To much of the angling world, a crappie is a crappie. They’re found in most every small lake or large impoundment; they spawn in the spring when the dogwoods bloom; you can catch them on either minnows or small jigs. […]
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Slab Have — Shearon Harris Lake moves to top of crappie-fishing reservoirs
Does North Carolina have a new top crappie venue? […]
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The other March Madness – Big crappie and good numbers are on the menu on Yadkin/Pee Dee reservoir
March Madness isn’t confined to basketball courts. Another sports-related frenzy takes place this month on Lake Tillery, an inconspicuous 5,260-acre reservoir on the Yadkin/Pee Dee system that forms the border between Montgomery and Stanly counties in North Carolina’s rural, southern Piedmont. […]
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Plinking Crappie — Get Lake Wylie slabs out from under docks
Slowly motoring up to a marina in the South Fork River, Mike Parrot cut the controls and eased his trolling motor into the water. A past Crappie Masters national champion from Charlotte, Parrott leaves behind his “heavy artillery” when he’s fishing for fun on home waters of Lake Wylie. […]
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Cozy up to a Uwharrie coyote — Tips for extending your hunting season by targeting these predators
Coyotes do more than howl. Along with their usual diet of small game — and anything edible that gets under their noses — these cagey predators can do some damage to a deer herd. […]