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June 18, 2026

Puffer fish are a regular visitor to surf fishermen’s creels in the fall and winter after the water cools. Once you learn how to clean them, they’re great table fare.

Cleaning a ‘sea squab’

There are several ways to clean a puffer. But the end result is the same, with the body of the fish looking like a chicken drumstick, earning it the nickname “sea squab.” […]

A tiny piece of wire run through the body of a D.O.A. shrimp and through the eye of the hook will keep the bait from sliding down the hook after it’s been blasted by a few trout.

Terminal tech tips

Jeff Burleson

Fishing with artificial lures can be rewarding, and options are virtually endless, with lures in every imaginable color and shape. […]

Guide Walter White likes a surf spike with PVC pipe to hold the rod and a metal rod to stick into the sand.

Spike it in the sand

Mike Marsh

While many beginning surf fishermen use PVC tube rod holders with an angled cut in the bottom, Walter White said there are other styles that are much more efficient. […]

Hunters can have good hunting on small tracts of surburban or relatively urban land if deer like this nice buck killed by Rives Cathey have cover, food and waater.

Tactics for urban deer hunting

L. Woodrow Ross

If you are a bowhunter, you may have an undiscovered bonanza closer to home than you think. You need to take an analytical look at the small, urban woodlots that you have passed by on the way to your “out-of-town” hunting spots. […]

The Manns Harbor Bridge is one of two spans that carry traffic across Croatan Sound from the Dare County mainland to Roanoke Island and Manteo.

Fishing by ‘sound’

Jerry Dilsaver

Roanoke Island is surrounded by the Roanoke, Croatan, Albemarle and Pamlico sounds, and fishing sounds is different than fishing rivers or other coastal bodies of water. […]

With deer becoming more comfortable in urban and suburban settings, hunting opportunities increase.

Circumstances favor increased urban huntings

L. Woodrow Ross

It’s no mystery why the number of urban and suburban deer hunters are increasing. While deer are a favored species, when numbers soar due to lack of predators, the results are undesirable. […]

A soft-plastic bait fished suspended under a cork fooled this speckled trout.

Different strokes for different fish

Jerry Dilsaver

Guide Bryan DeHart said speckled trout will feed anywhere from the surface to the bottom, with the preferred depth on any given day a complex combination of bait, water temperature and light. […]

Deer don’t live just in rural areas anymore, and hunters who don’t at least take a look at some of South Carolina’s suburban or urban areas might be missing out.

Upstate urban hunts

L. Woodrow Ross

Opportunities often go unnoticed or may be forgotten. We are creatures of habit. We find a location to hunt and get locked into it and don’t make the effort to try new locations. […]

Pete Georges killed this beautiful 8-point buck on Stokes County’s Singletree Gun & Plough on Nov. 19, 2011.

North of the boarder bucks

Craig Holt

Dustin Reamey of Chase City, Va., used a muzzleloader rifle to down one of Virginia’s greatest whitetailed bucks in November 2011 just across the North Carolina state line in Mecklenburg County. […]

Legacy’s Stag-Queen call can be used for a doe bleat or buck grunt.

Talk to me!

Jeff Burleson

Deer and other wild animals communicate through scent, body language and, of course, vocalization. […]