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Summer patterns that really work
Summer brings on unique fishing challenges — increased boat traffic, oxygen-level problems and just plain hot temperatures. […]
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Big Rock tournament is sued over disqualification
MOREHEAD CITY — Two lawsuits have been filed over the $900,000 in prize money for a record-breaking marlin caught and then disqualified in a North Carolina fishing tournament.
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Trout, smallmouths available at mountain streams
Mountain trout and smallmouth fishing are “really good now,” according to a western North Carolina-based fly-fishing guide. […]
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Kiss-ing Triggers
The order of the day was bottom-fishing when Capt. Devin Cage steered The Poacher out of the Oregon Inlet Fishing Center and into the ocean. […]
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Sheepshead on the Rocks
Fishing partners Lewis Emery and Larry Essick of Wilmington enjoy chasing a couple of species that are plentiful in their area, but they often take a break from red drum and sea trout to challenge sheepshead. […]
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Smallmouth ‘Toe’-Hold
Scott Cunningham backed his trailer down a steep incline, the sort of grade where an angler hopes his parking brake holds when he off-loads his boat, lest he need a wrecker or winch to fish his pickup out of the water. […]
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Bonefish in your Backyard
The weather forecast hadn’t changed for nearly two weeks: mid-90s, high humidity with little chance of rain barring a scattered evening thunderstorm. […]
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DualFin Planer Board
The DualFin is an in-line, ultra-light, user-friendly, super-tough planer-board, great for boat or shore fishermen. […]
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Big night bite!
Fishermen catch speckled trout throughout the day, but the majority are caught early in the morning and late in the afternoon. Often overlooked by many anglers is the night bite. Trout will feed throughout the night during the summer when conditions are right. […]
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SCDNR, National Guard enlarge Beaufort 45 reef
The last deployment of 32 armored personnel carriers decommissioned by the South Carolina Army National Guard was 45 feet to the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean eight miles off Port Royal Sound where they are now part of a condominium for fish.