Newsletter - Page 1463 of 2135 - Carolina Sportsman

The Ruger SR22 is fun to shoot, and it’s a perfect weapon to carry.

Ruger’s SR22 — Small, accurate, fun

I’m going to let you in on the next big thing in handguns. You get the opportunity to get in on this before the rush, like what happened with the Ruger LCP and the Smith & Wesson Shield. […]

Frank Dalli's huge jack crevalle, caught April 2 out of Wrightsville Beach, is a potential state record.

Potential state-record jack crevalle caught out of Wrightsville Beach

Jerry Dilsaver

A Wake Forest fishermen has caught a potential state-record jack crevalle out of Wrightsville Beach. […]

Bass Pro Shops will open a 120,000-square foot store in Spartanburg County in 2016.

Bass Pro Shops coming to Spartanburg County in 2016

Phillip Gentry

Bass Pro Shops announced plans this week to open its third Outdoor World store in South Carolina, according to officials with Spartanburg County, who said the popular outdoor retailer will anchor a 75-acre mixed-use development that will include hotels, retail stores and restaurants. […]

Guide Rod Thomas said stripers are on the way up the Roanoke River but haven't reached Weldon yet.

Roanoke River stripers still downriver, but headed for Weldon

Craig Holt

The cold snap that ripped through North Carolina late Tuesday may have killed some plants and fruit-tree buds, but it fired up striped bass in the Roanoke River. […]

The N.C. Division of Marine Fisheries said that commercial netters exceeded their entire quota of red drum for the 2014 season in only 84 days last fall.

North Carolina closes commercial netting for red drum until at least Sept. 1.

Jerry Dilsaver

The N.C. Division of Marine Fisheries has closed commercial fishing for red drum statewide because netters caught more than their allowable poundage for the entire season in just a few months last fall. […]

New Humminbird ONIX and ION units equipped with certain LakeMaster maps can use a plug-in SmartStrike program to help you pattern a lake.

Manufacturing luck

Allan Tarvid

The Dallas Fire Fighters Bass Club was formed in the 1970s and as a casual angler just turned serious fisherman I was a charter member. […]

Glenn "Teach" Corley pulled in this 3-pound Lake Keowee crappie last week.

Big crappie are still deep at Lake Keowee

Glenn Corley

The old saying goes, “Dogwoods in bloom, crappie coming soon,” but on Lake Keowee the crappie are here now, and they are huge. […]

The Pamlico Sound behind Hatteras and Ocracoke islands has been loaded with puppy drum.

Huge number of puppy drum invades sound behind Hatteras

Jerry Dilsaver

Capt. Joey Van Dyke of Fingeance Charters in Hatteras said fishermen along the edge of Pamlico Sound are receiving a special treat this spring – an invasion of puppy drum. […]

Hunters have a unique opportunity to take turkeys during rainy weather because their behavior is more predictable and one of their sharpest senses is dulled.

Bad weather, good hunting

Jeff Burleson

For a species with a brain the size of a walnut, wild turkeys are fairly clever at avoiding the talons or the teeth of predators, but their poor sense of smell allows hunters and other predators to take a few turkeys each year. […]

Make use of locator calls as season progresses

Terry Madewell

Locator calls are an important of any turkey hunter’s arsenal, especially from mid-season to the final day of the season.

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