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Wilderness Smallies
Would you like to catch smallmouth bass in about as pristine a spot as Tar Heel anglers can find? […]
Freshwater Fishing
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Secret Water
When Jeffrey Thomas was growing up in the Lee County town of Broadway, there was only one place to go fishing — at the outskirts of town, below the junction of the Deep and Haw Rivers, an old, abandoned dam impounded a section of the Cape Fear River. […]
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Sibling Slab Rivalry
Falls of the Neuse Lake and Jordan Lake have grown up together — an hour’s drive apart on either side of the Raleigh-Durham area — since they were impounded more than 20 years ago. […]
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The Merrie Month
“See that disturbance in the water over there next to the bank?” Jeff Efird asked. “Try to get a cast in there.” […]
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Slab City
How good is the crappie fishery at Lake Wateree?
Well, Nick Babin and Brian Davis live in Gilbert at the south side of Lake Murray, and when they want to catch big slab crappie and lots of them, they drive completely around their home lake and head up the road to Lake Wateree, downstream from the town of Great Falls on the Catawba River, forming the border between Fairfield, Lancaster and Kershaw counties. […]
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Fish of Dreams
Spring is a time of transition, and all good anglers realize the value of transitions in fishing success — those between day and night, shallow and deep water, cover and open water, etc. […]
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Cover: April 2006 (NC) – Freshwater
Post-spawn bass don’t have to be tough to catch. […]
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Jackson County Stream Produces Record-Breaking Rainbow Trout
The N.C. Wildlife Resources Commission has announced that Leah Johnson’s 20-pound and 3-ounce rainbow trout has been certified as the new North Carolina State Freshwater Fishing Record. […]
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Cherokee reservation is top spot for North Carolina trout
Bright sunshine broke through a thin layer of fog lifting off the Oconaluftee River deep in the heart of the Smoky Mountains of western North Carolina, as anglers started taking their places along the pristine stream for opening day of trout fishing at the Cherokee Indian Reservation. […]
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River-run shad are harbingers of great North Carolina spring fishing
Some people claim robins are the harbingers of spring. Others say it’s crocuses or daffodils. William Wordsworth, the poet, immortalized spring’s fore-runner as a lone snowdrop. […]