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Dixie Deer Classic is beginning and end

A lot of sportsmen believe North Carolina’s 2013 deer season ended Jan. 1, but that’s only partly correct. It’s also the start of the 2014 season. […]

Speckled trout are cold-sensitive, and it appears that most of South Carolina’s fish survived two blasts of cold weather in January.

Battling against the cold

Bryan Bowers

In recent years, South Carolina anglers have enjoyed some of the best speckled trout fishing ever, in terms of both numbers and size. […]

A sea turtle escapes a trawl net through a turtle-extruder device. A suit says federal fisheries managers are endangering turtles by not actively enforcing their use.

Conservation groups sue feds over sea-turtle regulations

Jerry Dilsaver

A coalition of conservation groups notified the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) of its intent to file suit over the agency’s failure to prevent the annual capture and drowning of more than 53,000 threatened and endangered sea turtles in the nets of shrimp trawlers operating in the Gulf of Mexico and the south Atlantic.

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Guide McMcSwain said smallmouth bass have really been biting on the Broad River the past several weeks -- despite changing weather patterns.

Broad River bronzebacks putting on quite a show

Brian Cope

Water levels and temperatures have fluctuated greatly on the Broad River for the past few weeks, but the smallmouth bass are still biting, and adventurous anglers are having success reeling in good numbers of bronzebacks and some big ones, too. […]

The N.C. Wildlife Resources Commission voted Thursday to allow baiting of bears by still-hunters across the state.

Commission votes unanimously to allow bear-baiting by still-hunters

Craig Holt

Members of the N.C. Wildlife Resources Commission voted unanimously at their Feb. 28 meeting in Raleigh to approve changes in bear baiting and hunting regulations for the 2014-15 season. […]

Chase Watson sits in the door of a Hughes Box Blind, holding a Leupold scope; both were part of his grand-prize package for winning the Bag-A-Buck contest.

Bag-A-Buck winner picks up grand-prize package at Dixie Deer Classic

North Carolina Sportsman

Chase Watson of Oxford, the grand-prize winner in North Carolina Sportsman’s Bag-A-Buck contest, picked up his prize package on Friday, Feb. 28, at the Dixie Deer Classic in Raleigh. […]

Currents

March is an end and a beginning

Dan Kibler

The calendar changes in January, but you can argue that March marks an end and a beginning for most hunters and fishermen across South Carolina. […]

Rod Wall of Ninety Six looks for crappie to move out of deep water and enter the prespawn phase this month at Lake Greenwood.

Crappie in the Crosshairs – Lake Greenwood is long-line trolling paradise in March

Phillip Gentry

Despite some occasional cold and rainy weather, March ushers in the spawning ritual for crappie on Lake Greenwood, and Rod Wall of Ninety Six can think of no better place to spend the month. […]

Crappie are biting all over Lake Wateree this month.

Lake Wateree is a slab supermarket

Terry Madewell

If you’re looking for a lake that can produce a 20-fish limit of crappie that weighs more than 30 pounds this month, there’s some good news for fishermen: it’s one of the best times of the year to target slabs on Lake Wateree, but experts also agree it can be also one of the more complex times in terms of crappie fishing strategy. […]

Guide William Sasser shows off the kind of crappie he said is regularly caught at Clarks Hill Lake during March.

Peak slab season? Veteran Clarks Hill guide looking forward to spring crappie fishing

Pat Robertson

Guiding on Clarks Hill Lake is a business for William Sasser, but crappie fishing takes him back to his childhood. Although most of the business of his guide service and bait shop centers on fishing for stripers and hybrids, it was his ability to catch crappie on the sprawling Savannah River reservoir that got him into guiding. […]