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June 18, 2026

The N.C. Marine Fisheries Commission voted for changes to the cobia fishing regulations, but a federal closure is still possible.

Federal closure looms over cobia season

The N.C. Marine Fisheries Commission voted in late February to reduce the daily creel limit for cobia from two fish to one in state waters, and fisheries officials are hoping to find more ways to delay a federal closure of the season that could come as soon as June 15. […]

Stop by the Greensboro Coliseum this weekend for the Central Carolina Boat and Fishing Expo, and be sure to visit the N.C. Sportsman Magazine booth.

Central Carolina Boat and Fishing Expo is this weekend

Brian Cope

The Central Carolina Boat and Fishing Expo is this weekend at the Greensboro Coliseum. The show runs from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. Friday, 9 a.m. to 7 p.m. Saturday, and 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Sunday. […]

The SCDNR held their first Youth Skeet Open and Youth Trap Open championships at the NWTF's new Palmetto Shooting Complex in Edgefield on Feb. 12-13.

SCDNR holds first Youth Skeet Open and Youth Trap Open championships

SCDNR News Release

The S.C. Department of Natural Resources expanded its youth shooting sports program by hosting its first Youth Skeet Open and Youth Trap Open championships recently at the National Wild Turkey Federation’s Palmetto Shooting Complex in Edgefield. […]

Falls of the Neuse Lake’s bass have the reputation of kicking off their prespawn movements earlier than those in most other reservoirs.

Falls of the Neuse Lake lunker bass get an early start

Dan Kibler

Almost since it was impounded in 1981, Falls of the Neuse Lake has been known as much for the big largemouth bass it spit out as when those hawgs showed up. […]

Big slabs like this one are taken with long lines from Tillery before fish make a big move to the shallows.

Stick Lake Tillery crappie

Tony Garitta

Niorwood’s David Diggs fishes year-round for crappie at Lake Tillery, and he knows that March rates as a prime month for catching large slabs at the Yadkin River impoundment. […]

Some of High Rock Lake’s biggest crappie are caught out of relatively deep water in March.

Stay deep for slabs

Tony Garitta

While March Madness for basketball fans translates into being glued to the television set during the NCAA tournament, for fishermen, it translates into fishing for crappie at High Rock Lake. […]

The scent of live crabs will usually attract any late-winter redfish that swims across their scent trails.

Shallotte River red drum break out

Jerry Dilsaver

Winter typically begins to break in late February or early March, and the fish notice and appreciate more sunshine and warmer weather as much as fishermen. […]

Guide Andy Fox said Lake Hickory’s bass population has exploded with big fish over the past few years.

Lake Hickory heats up

Dan Kibler

Andy Fox of Claremont isn’t one to look a gift horse in the mouth, especially if it’s got fins, scales and a big mouth. […]

In March, Jeff Cronk finds plenty of reds behind the barrier islands close to Bogue, Bear and Browns inlets, and in the surf outside those inlets.

Go to school on red drum

Craig Holt

The calendar flips to March about two months before saltwater fishing heats up for most inshore and nearshore species along North Carolina’s central coast, but guide Jeff Cronk of Swansboro’s FishN4Life Charters stays on top of a red drum bite that never seems to end and never seems to stop changing. […]

Shearon Harris Lake south of Raleigh produces some great largemouth bass, especially during the prespawn in March.

Shearon Harris Lake bass crank up in March

Dusty Wilson

If you listen closely, you’ll hear a sigh of relief as bass fisherman flip their calendars to find that March and better fishing are right around the corner. […]