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Guide Brad Taylor said following sea gulls is the best way to find and catch Lake Murray stripers.

Catch Lake Murray stripers? It takes some gull-watching

The striper fishing at Lake Murray is red hot, and if you want to go where the action is, just follow the gulls. […]

Darwin Huddler's entry of a 6-point Stokes County buck was the winner of North Carolina Sportsman's monthly Bag-a-Buck contest for November.

Bag-A-Buck prize adds to father’s payback

Darwin Hudler of the Davidson County village of Midway has spent an awful long time over the past 15 years taking his son, Timothy, deer hunting. Payback was great this season. […]

Optimal conditions across the state and up north have provided South Carolina waterfowlers with a good start to the season; waterfowl managers believe that trend will continue.

Early duck hunting very good; SCDNR said it could be excellent season

Phillip Gentry

Excellent conditions for waterfowl have kicked off what could be one of the best ducks seasons in South Carolina in many years, according to waterfowl biologist Dean Harrigal of the S.C. Department of Natural Resources. […]

Greg Linacre's entry of his 6-point Beaufort County buck was the winner in South Carolina Sportsman's November Bag-A-Buck contest.

Ridgeland fire fighter gets 5-minute buck, Bag-A-Buck prize

Dan Kibler

It was the best 5-minute hunting trip of Greg Linacre’s career; it produced a 6-point buck and a Bag-A-Buck contest prize. […]

Ashleigh and Keith Peffer, Marines who participated in the Beaufort County DU chapter's Warriors Hunt, show off two of the ducks they harvested.

Beaufort DU Warriors Hunt puts Marines in range of great duck hunting

John Gribb

What do you get when you assemble 15 active duty GI’s – combat-experienced Marines actually – with the Beaufort Chapter of Ducks Unlimited and a half-dozen generous landowners? […]

Guides like Jot Owens have been regularly catching and releasing between a dozen and two-dozen stripers a day in the rivers around Wilmington.

Winter stripers are early arrivals in Wilmington rivers

Jerry Dilsaver

There is a moratorium on possession of stripers in the Cape Fear River and its tributaries, but that doesn’t keep fishermen from playing multiple rounds of catch-and-release in the three rivers that converge at Wilmington. […]

Catfishing is typically great this month.

Cool kids: stripers, catfish

Terry Madewell

The weather will be cool in December, but the fishing at Santee Cooper typically get’s hot for at least a couple of species: striper and catfish. […]

Capt. Rick Percy said redfish in the Beaufort area are gathering in huge winter schools, some of which can be found actively feeding -- others not.

Trout, reds still biting in waters around Beaufort

Brian Cope

Water temperatures have fallen in the last couple of weeks in Beaufort’s waters, but that has been good news for trout and redfish anglers. […]

John Tuttle's 12-point Rockingham County buck was scored and certified on Dec. 12 as the new state-record archery deer.

Rockingham County buck scored officially as new state-record

Craig Holt

North Carolina has its second new state-record archery buck in two weeks. A 12-point buck arrowed by Stoneville’s John R. Tuttle on Oct. 1 in Rockingham County was officially scored on Dec. 12 and became the second buck this season to qualify for the Boone and Crockett Club’s all-time record book and break the previous state record. […]