December issue of North Carolina Sportsman will boost your holiday hunting, fishing success

Target late-season deer, speckled trout, grouper

Now on sale, the December issue of North Carolina Sportsman looks at late-season deer hunting, sharing tactics for taking 11th-hour bucks on public lands around the Tarheel State, and examining how crossbows have given eastern North Carolina hunters an extra day afield.

The magazine also examines late-fall/early winter fishing for speckled trout in the Wrightsville Beach area and grouper in the waters off Atlantic Beach, plus stripers in the Pamlico River.

Learn tips on taking wood ducks in the swamps of eastern North Carolina.

Bass fishermen can get a primer on fishing the warm-water discharges, aka “hot holes” that make many Piedmont reservoirs great winter spots.

All in the December issue of North Carolina Sportsman.