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Bass fisherman Monty McGuffin said it’s time to head for the warm-water discharge at Duke Energy’s Oconee Nuclear Plant on Lake Keowee to get in on some hot spotted bass action.

Keowee’s “hot hole bite” heating up

With cooler weather finally settling in over the Upstate, bass fishing on Lake Keowee is beginning to heat up. […]

Declining stocks of menhaden, a tremendously important baitfish along the Atlantic coast, has caused a change in the way the little fish is managed.

Feds’ historic vote will protect Atlantic menhaden

The Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission voted on Dec. 14 for a historic reduction in the harvest of menhaden, an oily little baitfish that fishermen and biologists often call the “most important fish in the sea.” […]

With less than two weeks left before the season closes, fishermen out of Grand Strand ports, especially Georgetown, are mopping up on big grouper.

Last-chance grouper bite is great out of Georgetown

Jeff Burleson

The last opportunity to take home some tasty grouper is facing South Carolina fishermen, as the annual season closure begins on New Year’s Day. […]

Robbie Bennett (right) poses with his Montgomery County 19-point buck and his father, O’Neill Bennett.

Montgomery County’s ‘Big Nasty’ falls to Oak Ridge hunter

Craig Holt

A Montgomery County buck had given a family of hunters the slip for three years until Dec. 15, when Robbie Bennett finally downed the deer they called “Big Nasty.” […]

Jerry Payne of Mebane downed this 16-point buck in Caswell County on Thanksgiving Day.

Mebane hunter blessed with Thanksgiving buck

Craig Holt

The third week of November is typically the peak of the whitetail deer rut in North Carolina’s Piedmont area, and the results hunters had this year aren’t proving otherwise. […]

This 445-pound yellowfin tuna is the biggest of the species ever landed, but it has been disqualified from world-record discussion because IGFA rules were broken.

Giant California yellowfin tuna battle for world record

Jerry Dilsaver

Two huge yellowfin tuna – the two biggest ever – have been caught in the past couple of months, but only one is being considered for a new world record. John Petruescu caught a 445-pound yellowfin just before sunrise on Dec. 9 while fishing on the Excel, a long-range charterboat out of San Diego, Calif., Although his fish surpassed the existing world record by a full 40 pounds, it was will not be considered as a possible world record because the boat’s captain grabbed the fishing rod twice during the fight, disqualifying it under the rules of the International Game Fish Association (IGFA). […]

Gill-netting is illegal in North Carolina’s inland waters.

Two men arrested after Craven County gill-netting incident

North Carolina Sportsman

A Nov. 26 report of illegal gill netting in Craven County has led to two men being arrested by the N.C. Wildlife Resources Commission, their boat seized and the wrongfully taken fish given to a community food bank. […]

Guide Kevin Davis said size matters right now on Lake Moultrie, where big crappie are taking center stage and numbers are lagging.

Numbers down, but biggest of Lake Moultrie’s crappie are biting

Terry Madewell

The big crappie bite is “on” at Lake Moultrie right now. Guide Kevin Davis of Blacks Camp said that catching big numbers of fish have slowed, but plenty of slab crappie are being taken right now. […]

Federal wildlife officials are offering a reward for information about the shooting of a protected red wolf in Tyrell County last month.

Reward offered in latest red wolf shooting in NE North Carolina

North Carolina Sportsman

The U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service is requesting assistance with an investigation involving the suspected illegal take of a radio-collared red wolf that was recently found dead with a suspected gunshot wound on November 29, 2012, south of Columbia, in Tyrrell County. […]

Magazine schedules saltwater fishing school for March 16 in Wilmington

Dan Kibler

North Carolina Sportsman’s annual saltwater fishing school will return to Wilmington and the Cape Fear Wildlife Expo on Saturday, March 16, providing fishermen with plenty if in-depth information from guides and other fishing experts on inshore and offshore fishing, tackle, baits and rigging. […]