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August 31, 2026

Protecting a tiny area in each food plot from wildlife browsing will enable land managers to better gauge the effectiveness of fertilizer application and herbicide treatments.

It’s not too late to establish control areas

Jeff Burleson

Spring food plots should be coming up strong now, with deer and other wildlife beginning to show up regularly. […]

Fifteen inches makes a flounder a keeper anywhere along North Carolina’s coastline.

Regs much easier to understand

Dan Kibler

North Carolina’s flounder regulations have become far more simplified in past years; statewide, flatfish are managed with a six-fish daily creel limit and a 15-inch size minimum. […]

Too many fire ants in a farm-pond fish’s diet can be fatal. Treat fire-ant beds with an insecticide as soon as they are located.

Grow Big Fish: Kill fire ants

Jeff Burleson

During the summer, fish eat about everything they can find. Small bream and juvenile bass must stay close to cover in hopes of eluding the larger bass, but all fish will be looking to eat whatever closely resembles food. […]

Biologists and bass fishermen agree that the worst of Kerr Lake’s experience with the largemouth bass virus is over, and that the fishery is improving.

LMBV effects are dissipating

Craig Holt

Largemouth bass virus invaded Kerr Reservoir’s bass population in the past decade, but anglers didn’t notice a big decline in fish populations until 2009. […]

Rice fields for ducks should be planted by early June and should be flooded immediately after germination to prevent competition from weeds.

Plant rice now for ducks!

Jeff Burleson

The famed rice fields of the Mississippi Delta reel in ducks by the thousands each season, and for good reason. Rice is rich in carbohydrates and packed with energy. […]

The introduction and presence of blueback herring in Kerr Lake has led to changes in the way the largemouth bass population behaves.

Kerr Lake’s new ‘structure’

Craig Holt

During the glory days of the 1960s, ’70s and ’80s, Kerr Reservoir anglers knew spots that were the lake’s major bass magnets. […]

The concept of a spring season is to allow hunting only after the first round of mating has occurred.

Turkey seasons set for biological reasons

Craig Holt

Retired turkey biologist Mike Seamster said the angst today among many Tarheel State turkey hunters is caused because “they’re scouting before the season starts and hearing gobblers, so that’s when they want the season to open.” […]

Mark Crawford finds numbers of fish on the lower end of Clarks Hill Lake, but he looks up the lake, toward the Lake Russell tailrace, when he’s after a big fish.

Trophy fishing

Phillip Gentry

The choice between numbers and size is an easy one for Mark Crawford when he’s targeting big fish in a striped bass tournament. […]

Patrick Murphy took this beautiful Roanoke River gobbler.

Seamster is a homebody

Craig Holt

A member of the N.C. Wildlife Resources Commission proposed a few years back that opening day of turkey season move a week ahead, to the first Saturday in April. […]

A long-time landmark for anglers in the McCormick area, the Palmetto Angler was recently added to William Sasser’s fold of fishing services.

Place your baits

Phillip Gentry

Back in the late 1950s and early 1960s, when striped bass and hybrid bass were first stocked in Clarks Hill, a day of striper fishing started shortly after the previous day ended, with anglers setting out in the wee hours of the morning to catch enough bait for a day’s fishing. […]