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The Ava D's 491.4-pound blue marlin, caught Thursday, has taken over third place in the Big Rock Blue Marlin Tournament. Two days of fishing remain.

Third place changes hands twice Thursday in Big Rock

Two blue marlin came to the scales on Thursday on the fourth day of the Big Rock Blue Marlin Tournament out of Morehead City, and while third place changed hands twice, the $306,000 “Fabulous Fisherman’s” pot is still unclaimed. […]

Tiny silica gel packs will absorb moisture in tackle boxes and keep hooks and other metal surfaces from rusting.

Lexington guide says he uses silica gel packs to keep his tackle rust-free

Craig Holt

One of the problems for anglers, particularly those who fish in saltwater, is keeping their tackle free from rust. One North Carolina fishing guide has a neat solution […]

Sheepshead fishing has been excellent around bridges, docks and the State Port wall in Morehead City.

Great inshore fishing overlooked in the shadow of the Big Rock tournament

Jerry Dilsaver

While the focus of fishermen around Cape Lookout this week is on the Big Rock Blue Marlin Tournament, plenty of fish are being caught much closer to the beach, according to Matt Lamb of Chasin’ Tails Outdoors in Atlantic Beach. […]

Perhaps the easiest way to distinguish blue catfish (top) and channel catfish (bottom) is the shape of the anal fin. In blues, it's straight; in channels, it's rounded.

Blue cat or channel? Telling them apart doesn’t have to be difficult

Terry Madewell

One of the biggest questions anglers often raise when they boat a catfish is whether they’ve caught a blue catfish or channel catfish, because there are distinct similarities in appearance, beginning with the forked tail. […]

This building, which formerly housed a restaurant, will be the side of the Fly Fishing Museum of the Southern Appalachians in Cherokee.

Fly-fishing gets a museum

Robert Satterwhite

The heritage, art, science, craft and sport of fly fishing will be featured in a museum dedicated solely to fly fishing on the Cherokee Indian Reservation. […]

Get the right kind of start fishing from a paddle craft, and you may be hooked for life.

Back to the beginning

Phillip Gentry

Palmetto Paddling made it’s debut in the April, 2011 issue of South Carolina Sportsman, and in slightly more than four years, we’ve covered everything you can do in a kayak, from deer and turkey hunting to freshwater fishing, saltwater fishing and boat-rigging. […]

How funds from commercial fishing licenses and recreational commercial gear licenses are spent is a huge difference between House and Senate budget bills that must be worked out over the next week.

How will license funds be spent? House and Senate budget bills have big difference

Jerry Dilsaver

The N.C. House and N.C. Senate have big differences in their respective budget bills, and in the realm of saltwater fisheries, a big one is a fund created to help the commercial fishing industry that takes money collected from the public and allows a group of private citizens to determine how it is spent. […]

The N.C. House as inserted a clause into the state budget bill that would bring $600,000 to North Carolina from the federal government to expand marine law enforcement opportunities.

N.C. House to vote on budget bill that will provide for more marine enforcement

Craig Holt

The N.C. House will likely vote later this week for a state-budget bill that includes, among other things, language that would direct the N.C. Division of Marine Fisheries to establish a “joint enforcement agreement” with the National Marine Fisheries Service that will provide the state $600,000 per year and allow officers with the N.C. Marine Patrol to enforce federal fishing regulations outside state waters. […]

Morehead City-based Inspiration, captained by Casey Wagner, brought a 753.4-pound blue marlin to the scales Monday to lead the Big Rock Blue Marlin tournament.

Inspiration is Big Rock leader after boating huge marlin

North Carolina Sportsman

Rare has there been a day like Monday’s opening round of the Big Rock Blue Marlin Tournament out of Morehead City. […]

Speckled trout, along with flounder, have been regular guests in the coolers of fishermen on the lower section of the Combahee River.

Specks, flounder putting up a good fight in lower Combahee River

Brian Cope

Speckled trout and flounder are biting like mad in the saltwater portion of the Combahee River. Bob Sanders of Barnwell said the river is loaded with trout willing to take a well-presented lure, but he said on some days, anglers need to look around a bit before they find a hungry school. […]