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Cover: March 2006 (NC)

Tar Heel eyes turn to the tastiest fish that swims. […]

Backlashes

Sunday hunting in the living room

The 10,000-pound elephant has sat down in the living room of N.C. sportsmen and the N.C. Wildlife Resources Commission. […]

Tony Sprouse from Advance displays a nice-size Badin crappie. Crappie usually hold at 10 to 12 feet when the water temperature rises to 50 degrees.

Badin Lake is North Carolina crappie hotspot

Walter Taylor

Anglers don’t have to be experts to catch crappie at Badin Lake during March. But most days they’ll need to be tolerant of cold and wind. […]

Spotted seatrout, or “specks” as the locals call them, are particularly favorable to green grubs on jig heads.

Speck Madness rivals March Madness for North Carolina coastal trout fishermen

Dan Kibler

While most of North Carolina is bundled up in front of television sets watching the ACC and NCAA basketball tournaments, a few dozen anglers privy to a neat secret are huddled in their boats, knowing March Madness must mean the speckled trout are biting. […]

The WRC switched from stocking 2-inch-long bass finglerlings to 8-inch fingerlings to improve bass stocks at northeastern N.C. rivers.

North Carolina’s coastal rivers rebounding from hurricanes with bass

Chris Ginn

North Carolina hasn’t suffered a Katrina-like hit since 1999 (Hurricane Floyd), but the Tar Heel State makes up in numbers of storms for its relatively few direct hits by Category 4s. […]

Anglers who are lucky enough to see or discover an “upwelling” while fishing offshore should thank their lucky stars and try to stay in contact with it because these current flows hold baitfish and big saltwater predators.

Wahoo, tuna provide ocean commotion for North Carolina fishermen

Jerry Dilsaver

A “wee bit of nip” hovered in the morning air as we left the dock last March. […]

Guide Bud Haynes said the bite gets started at Eastland Creek, moves down to Nutbush Creek, then goes west to Clarksville, Va.

March to Buggs Island for great spring bass fishing along North Carolina-Virginia border

Dan Kibler

It’s hard, Bud Haynes and James Marshall admit, to look at the temperature gauge on your bass boat, see the number 48 and fish the banks. […]

Guide Fisher Culbreth (left) said protection of red drum has created a year-round fishery.

Look at low tide for North Carolina’s Cape Fear redfish

Mike Marsh

Capt. Fisher Culbreth is a man who is no stranger to taking risks. […]

It’s little wonder anglers are attracted to the Cherokee tribe’s lands to fish for trout as David Ensley, tribal manager of game and fish, displays a trophy-size rainbow reared at the hatchery.

Cherokee reservation is top spot for North Carolina trout

Don Rouanzion

Bright sunshine broke through a thin layer of fog lifting off the Oconaluftee River deep in the heart of the Smoky Mountains of western North Carolina, as anglers started taking their places along the pristine stream for opening day of trout fishing at the Cherokee Indian Reservation. […]