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June 17, 2026

Trail cameras can provide great information as the rut approaches on the specific bucks using an area; try placing some around scrapes and rubs.

Identifying bucks on scent markers

During the rut, the action can get hot and heavy. As does come into estrus, odors filter through the deer woods like smoke in a forest fire, driving bucks crazy. Hunters who spend a lot of time in the stand get many opportunities to see deer moving in and out of their property. […]

The clear waters around Wrightsville Beach make for great sight-fishing opportunities for redfish.

Wrightsville Beach’s diverse redfish opportunities

Phillip Gentry

Of the great fishing destinations along the North Carolina coast, Wrightsville Beach — at the end of I-40 and US 74 — is probably the easiest to get to and has the most different targets waiting for anglers: rock jetties, marshes, bays and plenty of protected area behind the barrier islands. […]

Glenn Finley said the marshes of Georgetown are very similar to what redfish anglers see in south Louisiana.

Georgetown’s waters are top drawer for redfish

Phillip Gentry

According to redfish tournament champ Glenn Finley, the vast expanses of marsh, creeks, bays and sounds around Georgetown, S.C., are the closest match he has seen to the popular redfish meccas of south Louisiana. […]

Prescribed fire, aka controlled burns, is a management tool to improve wildlife habitat, but wild fires may have provided some South Carolina mountain areas with similar results last fall.

Wildfires may have improved some public wildlife habitat

Terry Madewell

No outdoor enthusiast enjoys seeing wildfires rage on public or private land, but in the aftermath, a smidgen of a silver lining can exist. […]

Wildlife openings and some large areas of loblolly pines on Liberty Hill WMA provide great public-land habitat for bobwhite quail.

Liberty Hill WMA is a great “tweener”

Terry Madewell

Biologists Michael Hooks and Charles Ruth of the SCDNR both mentioned Liberty Hill WMA as one of their top picks because of its size, ease of accessibility and land diversity, giving hunters multiple species of big and small game that provide excellent hunting. […]

Bass pro Martha Goodfellow said that heading well up into Lake Hartwell’s two tributary rivers, the Seneca and Tugaloo, will greatly inhance your chances of catching more and better August bass.

Head to the rivers for Lake Hartwell summer bass

Phillip Gentry

Pro bass angler Martha Goodfellow of Greenville, S.C., said that August isn’t her favorite month to head for the lake, but when she does, she usually heads to Lake Hartwell. […]

A Double Uni is a great line-to-line knot. Overlap the ends of line and leader, tie a loose Uni at both ends (pictured), tighten each knot and cinch both knots and trim.

Maintain a strong, line-to-line connection when tarpon fishing

Jeff Burleson

Tarpon are the strongest fish that live inshore, so an angler’s terminal tackle must be constructed to endure the initial shock of the bite and the potentially long-lasting battle. […]

In North Carolina, think like a crabber to find tarpon

Jeff Burleson

In North Carolina waters, the No. 1 commercial seafood crop is the blue crab, and the greater Pamlico Sound produces the majority of the state’s 30 million-pound harvest. […]

Be sure to pay attention to the lunar feeding periods.

With tarpon around, never miss a lunar feed

Jeff Burleson

Diehard deer hunters know that lunar feeding periods are keys to bringing home venison. For consistently successful tarpon anglers, these feeding periods are nothing to ignore. […]

Rock jetties harness the current coming through an inlet on an incoming tide and often create great places to target gamefish in spots they’re set up to ambush bait.

Fish current seams, inlet eddies on an incoming tide

Jeff Burleson

The armaments that prevent many of the nation’s inlets from closing in always provide great fishing opportunities due to the very nature of how jetties are built and where they are located, and anglers in the Carolinas are lucky to have plenty of those structures: Oregon Inlet, Masonboro Inlet, Little River Inlet, Murrells Inlet and Winyah Bay, to name a few. […]