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July 1, 2026

After-dark hours can be extremely good for catching Catfish Lake’s catfish — but so can daylight hours.

Catfish Lake Catfish

Any map of eastern North Carolina will show a moderate-sized hole in the middle of a vast area of virtual nothingness: the 160,000 acres of Croatan National Forest. […]

Lunker rainbows are not an uncommon sight on the Nantahala, especially in the delayed-harvest section.

Loosely translated from the Cherokee, Nantahala means “land of the noon-day sun.” The descriptive place name is apt, because over much of its flow, and especially in the gorge marking its lower reaches, sunshine reaches the Nantahala River for only a few hours each day. […]

Saltwater series spotlight: Wrightsville Beach

Jerry Dilsaver

Wrightsville Beach is a coastal destination many fishermen are aware of, and once they fish here, they keep returning, thanks to the limitless fishing opportunities. […]

NCDMF biologists are expecting a tough year for spotted seatrout anglers because of a second-straight winter of massive cold-stun kills.

2011 Saltwater Forecast

Craig Holt

North Carolina’s saltwater species are trying to hold their own, but there’s some trouble in River City — especially the portions of rivers that run through inshore waters before emptying into the Atlantic Ocean. […]

Biologist Kevin Dockendorf said he’s sampling more and more trophy stripers on the Roanoke every year.

Roanoke River on the Fly

Craig Holt

Guide Chuck Laughridge eased his aluminum boat along a rock-strewn shoreline at Weldon’s public boat ramp last April to pick up a late-arriving angler around 9 a.m. […]

The house gamefish bill would create more jobs at the coast and more taxable income for the state if it is passed and protects red drum (above), along with spotted seatrout and striped bass.

Gamefish proposal seen as jobs bill by House sponsor

Craig Holt

The scheduled public hearing for the North Carolina House of Representatives bill that would designate red drum, speckled trout and striped bass as gamefish in North Carolina coastal waters was postponed. […]

Small redfish and trout are a perfect way to kick off the spring fishing season.

Start the spring small, and the big fish will come

Jeff Dennis

What’s most important about fishing during the spring is to take what the water gives you in terms of fish, release the small ones and work your way up to bigger fish. […]

Cover: April 2011 (SC)

South Carolina Sportsman

Lake Moultrie bass and bluewater dolphin are two reasons anglers have been counting down the days to April. […]

Cover: April 2011 (SC) – Bass

South Carolina Sportsman

Lake Moultrie bass and bluewater dolphin are two reasons anglers have been counting down the days to April. […]

A kayak is the perfect watercraft for exploring the Sparkleberry Swamp and catching bedding bream.

Perch-jerking is perfect for paddlers

Phillip Gentry

If you’re going to start something, you might as well start at the beginning, so it seems only appropriate that the first column about kayak fishing and hunting adventures in South Carolina should start with a perch-jerking trip since bream were the “first fish” for many of us. […]