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June 23, 2026

Moving water on the high end of the tide cycle is the ticket to running into numbers of nice speckled trout around Hilton Head Island.

Take a different angle around oysters

Rick Percy’s surefire way of boating September speckled trout is by fishing oyster beds on an incoming tide, but he said a lot of other anglers approach these flats the wrong way. […]

A whitetail’s sense of smell is thought to be a thousand times more sensitive than a human’s, able to detect pheromones among common scents.

Make mock scrapes

Jeff Burleson

Before the rut arrives, bucks are confined to bachelor groups, traveling together and very close to groups of does. When the mating season begins, hormones fly, and the entire deer herd busts out of the frame, going out in all directions. […]

MidCoast’s Evolution popping cork is heavy enough to make it easy to cast in windy conditions.

How to pop off

Brian Cope

With all the popping corks on the market, it is tough to see how any of them are better or even different than the next, but guide Rick Percy said some are definitely more suited for his style of fishing. […]

Consider wearing hunter orange on your way to and from your deer stand during bow season as a measure of added safety precaution.

Bowhunting safety rules make sense

Bill Howard

North Carolina had its first fatal hunting accident that involved a bowhunter shooting another hunter by mistake last September. […]

Know when a trout’s a speck

Brian Cope

Fishermen in the Hilton Head area have three excellent nearshore reefs to fish that are close enough to the beach and close enough to each other to be visited in one trip: the Fish America Reef, the General Gordon and the Parris Island Reef. […]

Getting fall food plots in the ground by the first week of September will allow production of forage that will gives hunters a chance to take advantage of deer using the groceries through the fall hunting season.

Plant fall food plots early

Jeff Burleson

Throughout the Carolinas, September still feels like summer, and the only tasty foods available to deer are the soybeans and peanut crops on farms. […]

Young coyotes are especially vulnerable to hunters’ efforts early in fall before they develop their survival instincts.

Take out juvenile coyotes now

Jeff Burleson

Originally from the great plains, coyotes are battling the feral hog in population increases across the South. […]

Trail cameras can give hunters a great look at the bucks on their properties and help pattern their late-summer movements.

Use photo surveillance

Jeff Burleson

Isn’t the easiest way to kill a trophy buck to know when and where he’s going to be the next day? There wouldn’t be any mature bucks left if it was that easy. […]

A new strain of epizootic hemmorrhagic disease wreaked havoc on the deer herd in a handful of North Carolina counties last fall.

New EHD strain put a strain on deer

Craig Holt

The epizootic hemorrhagic disease outbreak that affected deer in several North Carolina counties last fall was compounded by a new strain of the virus. […]

North Carolina continues to produce trophy bucks on a regular basis, despite ups and downs in the herd.

Harvest was down in 94 percent of North Carolina counties

Craig Holt

Biologists emphasized that declines in the deer harvest in 2014 were concentrated in five counties north of Raleigh, but they actually dropped in 94 of North Carolina’s 100 counties. […]