Fishing

Fishing Tournaments

Pope captures BFL title at Murray

Tony Garitta

Roger Pope of Statesville won the March 10 Wal-Mart Bass Fishing League South Carolina Division tournament at Lake Murray, S.C., with a five-bass catch weighing 22 pounds, 7 ounces . Pope received $4,691 and a bonus of $827 from Ranger boats. […]

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Snot Grass

Tony Garitta

I tossed a medium-running crankbait across one of my favorite points at Tuckertown Lake while my fishing buddy, Emery Hollar of Lexington, followed suit. […]

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At the Rock Hop

Dan Kibler

If you’re fishing for striped bass at the Roanoke River, April 30 is the last day you can keep any fish for the frying pan or freezer.

Somehow, that doesn’t faze guides George Beckwith and Rod Thomas. […]

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Drum Line

Bob Goldstein

Fall drum are predictable, readily located, widespread, and scattered, but that’s when most fishermen pursue them at the Outer Banks during the peak of the fishing season. […]

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Go Long for Groupers

Mike Marsh

It was a nearly windless morning and the sun was just turning a black night into the grayness of predawn at Atlantic Beach.

Twin 250 Yamaha four-stroke engines mumbled quietly as they warmed up, and the turbulence of the engines’ vibrations on the otherwise quiet water of the boat harbor foretold which boat was being readied for a day of fishing. […]

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Stream Dreams

Jim Casada

Although I cut my fishing teeth casting for trout at small Appalachian high-country creeks, there’s something about bronzebacks that lurk in moving water which always has been enchanting. […]