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June 23, 2026

Cover: March 2006 (NC)

Tar Heel eyes turn to the tastiest fish that swims. […]

This brown trout is typical of the large specimens anglers can encounter at Swain County’s Deep Creek.

Great streams of western N.C.

North Carolina has approximately 4,000 miles of trout waters spread across 25 western counties, and during 40 years of fishing, I’ve fished at least two-thirds of those streams. […]

It’s important for an angler to shorten the fighting time with a fish he knows he’s going to release.

Please release me, let me go

Jerry Dilsaver

I’m all about releasing undersize, oversize or fish not intended for the dinner table. […]

Kacie Michael of Welcome (left) and Thomas Fritts of Lexington, son of fishing pro David Fritts, qualified for the N.C. CastingKids Championship to at Bass Pro Shops in Concord.

Coble earns Classic spot at Florida

Tony Garitta

Jeff Coble of Manson earned the final spot in the 2006 CITGO Bassmaster Classic, Feb. 24-26, at Lake Tohopekaliga, Fla., by winning the Jan. 19-21 ESPN Outdoors Bassmasters Series Championship. […]

Tony Sprouse from Advance displays a nice-size Badin crappie. Crappie usually hold at 10 to 12 feet when the water temperature rises to 50 degrees.

Badin Lake is North Carolina crappie hotspot

Walter Taylor

Anglers don’t have to be experts to catch crappie at Badin Lake during March. But most days they’ll need to be tolerant of cold and wind. […]

Spotted seatrout, or “specks” as the locals call them, are particularly favorable to green grubs on jig heads.

Speck Madness rivals March Madness for North Carolina coastal trout fishermen

Dan Kibler

While most of North Carolina is bundled up in front of television sets watching the ACC and NCAA basketball tournaments, a few dozen anglers privy to a neat secret are huddled in their boats, knowing March Madness must mean the speckled trout are biting. […]