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Totally Quackers
The most-colorful, handsomest duck North Carolina waterfowlers have a chance to hunt is the male wood duck. […]
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Cover: November 2012 (NC)
Jennifer Morris killed this 135-inch 9-pointer with a crossbow in Granville County. […]
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Lake of the Month: Lake Greenwood
For most of his 47 years, Tom Mundy of Laurens has been trying to figure out better ways to catch fish. As a kid, he would sneak into local farm ponds, and as he grew up, he expanded his territory to include nearby Lake Greenwood. […]
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Public Affairs
No question, there are easier things to do than hunt public land across the sprawling metropolis of South Carolina’s Upstate, which doesn’t boast of any rice fields or vast acres of marsh grass. […]
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Cover: November 2012 (SC)
Renn Guthrie dropped this trophy 8-pointer in Calhoun County in early September. […]
Bass Fishing
Let’s go live
Guide Greg Griffin of Holly Sprints is a live-bait specialist who dangles natural baits in front of fish instead of artificial replicas. […]
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Target big speckled trout on the jetties at Masonboro Inlet
Among the distinguished chains of islands of the Cape Fear coast lies the radiant coastal community of Wrightsville Beach. […]
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East vs. West: Hunting tactics to put blackpowder deer on the ground
With North Carolina’s deer seasons divided into four regions by the N.C. Wildlife Resources Commission — along with seasons that cater to three different kinds weapons — hunters find themselves in different weather and deer-activity conditions but relegated to using the same types of weapons. […]
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Cover: October 2012 (NC)
The rut is just around the corner, so North Carolina hunters need to find a corner in the woods where big bucks can be ambushed. […]
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Lake of the Month: Clarks Hill
At almost 71,000 acres, Clarks Hill Reservoir, the largest manmade body of water east of the Mississippi River, is still surprisingly undeveloped compared to many of the other impoundments across South Carolina.
Clarks Hill, or Lake Thurmond if you prefer, was built between 1946 and 1954, just a few years before Lake Hartwell and some 30 years before Lake Russell, the other two impoundments upstream on the Savannah River system.
As a fishery, Clarks Hill has a reputation as a better-than-average destination for a number of species. Professional bass tours frequently make stops there, and a growing number of crappie and catfish tournament circuits are also becoming regular visitors. One of the more sought-after species, at least as far as recreational anglers are concerned, are striped bass. Stripers and their test-tube cousins, hybrid striped bass, were first introduced into Clarks Hill during the late 1960s. The fishery was to their liking, and the lake produced a state-record striper in 1993 that wasn’t topped for eight years. […]