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Blue catfish bite is on fire at Badin Lake
If fishermen want to feel something really big at the other end of their lines, they should plan a trip to Badin Lake, which has been spitting out big blue cats with regularity lately. […]
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FLW Tour visits Lake Hartwell for 4-day tournament this week
The Upstate will once again play host to 150 pro bass fishermen s and 150 co-anglers when the Walmart FLW Tour visits Lake Hartwell March 6-9. […]
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SCDNR grades duck season as excellent based on WMA harvest
The S.C. Department of Natural Resources called this past duck season “excellent” based on harvest figures from WMAs across the state, with Hickory Top Greentree Reservoir in Clarendon County and Bear Island WMA in Colleton County leading the way. […]
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Crappie fishing on Hartwell is so good it’s drawing striper guides
You know the crappie are biting when striped bass guides are taking time off from chasing linesides to go do some perch jerking. […]
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Encounter with big porcine herd leaves hunters, dogs, hogs all shook up
Hunter Shepherd and a few friends were hoping to thin the local wild hog population around Pinewood when they ran into a huge herd of pigs last Saturday, Feb. 22. […]
Deer Hunting
Huge Ohio buck is Best in Show at Dixie Deer Classic
A huge Ohio buck killed by a McDowell County hunter and a handful of great bucks from the Piedmont, including two Boone and Crockett Club monsters, highlighted the 34th annual Dixie Deer Classic that ended on Sunday, March 2, at the state fairgrounds in Raleigh. […]
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Conservation groups sue feds over sea-turtle regulations
A coalition of conservation groups notified the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) of its intent to file suit over the agency’s failure to prevent the annual capture and drowning of more than 53,000 threatened and endangered sea turtles in the nets of shrimp trawlers operating in the Gulf of Mexico and the south Atlantic.
Bass Fishing
Broad River bronzebacks putting on quite a show
Water levels and temperatures have fluctuated greatly on the Broad River for the past few weeks, but the smallmouth bass are still biting, and adventurous anglers are having success reeling in good numbers of bronzebacks and some big ones, too. […]
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Commission votes unanimously to allow bear-baiting by still-hunters
Members of the N.C. Wildlife Resources Commission voted unanimously at their Feb. 28 meeting in Raleigh to approve changes in bear baiting and hunting regulations for the 2014-15 season. […]
Deer Hunting
Bag-A-Buck winner picks up grand-prize package at Dixie Deer Classic
Chase Watson of Oxford, the grand-prize winner in North Carolina Sportsman’s Bag-A-Buck contest, picked up his prize package on Friday, Feb. 28, at the Dixie Deer Classic in Raleigh. […]