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June 7, 2026

Lexington's Jerry Hill caught these three stripers trolling bucktails on High Rock Lake.

Trolling bite for stripers has kicked in at High Rock Lake

For the past two weeks, plenty of striped bass in the 10-pound class have been caught at High Rock Lake by fishermen slow-trolling bucktails or using live bait. […]

Guide Steve Crenshaw said the long awaited fall schooling pattern for hybrid, striped, and black bass on Lake Hartwell finally showed up in earnest earlier this week.

Topwater bite for Lake Hartwell stripers, hybrids and largemouths heats up

Phillip Gentry

The on-again, off-again demise of summer has finally dropped water temperatures enough to start the long-anticipated fall schooling activity for hybrid, striped and even black bass species on Lake Hartwell. […]

Tim Watkins' huge 12-point Stokes County buck is the new North Carolina state-record archery buck. It scored 170 1/8 points.

Stokes County buck is new No. 1 North Carolina archery trophy

Craig Holt

North Carolina has a new state-record archery deer, all because Tim Watkins’ plan came together when he arrowed a huge buck Sept. 18 in Stokes County. […]

ECU dental school student Christin Carter killed this 12-point Guilford County buck last Saturday on opening day of gun season.

ECU co-ed has trophy buck, jealous boyfriend

Dan Kibler

Christin Carter, a student in East Carolina University’s dental school, has been introduced to deer hunting by her boyfriend, Brad Whitman. […]

Derek Frick of Columbia has been catching a lot of Lake Murray crappie in the Little Saluda, shooting jigs under docks and fishing minnows around brush piles and bridge pilings.

Lake Murray crappie bite is picking up in Little Saluda area

Brian Cope

The crappie are biting on Lake Murray, and two popular techniques are keeping anglers busy: spider-rigging and single-pole fishing. […]

Guide Culley Wilson and 11-year-old Madison Moore pose with the 610-pound black bear she killed last week in Tyrrell County.

Winston-Salem girl kills huge black bear in Tyrrell County

Dan Kibler

An 11-year-old girl from Winston-Salem killed a 610-pound Tyrrell County black bear last Wednesday on a hunt that ended with the huge bear finally falling within 10 feet of the spot where she took the first shot of the encounter. […]

Guide Chris Heinning is catching stripers and largemouth bass in the same areas, on the same lures, at Lake Wateree.

Lake Wateree’s 2-for-1 special: stripers and largemouths

Terry Madewell

There’s a 2-for-1 special right now at Lake Wateree, with excellent fishing for largemouth bass along with the opportunity to catch bonus hefty stripers. […]

Donna Shaver killed this 153-inch, 10-point buck with a muzzleloader last Monday in Stanly County.

Stanly County produces 150-inch, 10-point buck for New London woman

Phillip Gentry

A New London woman celebrated Veteran’s Day in an unusual but exciting way by killing her best deer in more than 25 years, a 150-inch 10-pointer. […]

Shannon Clark's 5-pound, 8-ounce redfish was weekend's biggest, and she and husband Rennie won the Lowcountry Redfish Cup's championship.

Carolina Beach couple knocks off championship of South Carolina redfish tour

Jerry Dilsaver

Rennie and Shannon Clark of Carolina Beach decided earlier this year to fish the Lowcountry Redfish Cup trail – there being no trail in North Carolina in 2013. […]

Lead for ammunition will likely cost more after the nation's largest lead smelter closes its doors because it can't meet tougher air-pollution restrictions.

Expect rise in ammo prices because smelter is closing, NRA says

Craig Holt

Whether or not the federal government is engaged in a plot to deny citizens ammunition for their guns, there’s no doubt government regulations will put the nation’s last and only lead smelter out of business next month. […]