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After-dark hours can be extremely good for catching Catfish Lake’s catfish — but so can daylight hours.

Catfish Lake Catfish

Any map of eastern North Carolina will show a moderate-sized hole in the middle of a vast area of virtual nothingness: the 160,000 acres of Croatan National Forest. […]

Bruce Compton (in black) presents the Freedom call to Hamp Caughman

Custom Flatwoods Game call given in honor of fallen soldier during 2011 Palmetto Sportsmen’s Classic

Jeff Dennis

The 2011 Palmetto Sportsmen’s Classic draws tens of thousands of hunters and anglers to the Columbia state fairgrounds to celebrate our outdoor heritage. […]

Lunker rainbows are not an uncommon sight on the Nantahala, especially in the delayed-harvest section.

Loosely translated from the Cherokee, Nantahala means “land of the noon-day sun.” The descriptive place name is apt, because over much of its flow, and especially in the gorge marking its lower reaches, sunshine reaches the Nantahala River for only a few hours each day. […]

Saltwater series spotlight: Wrightsville Beach

Jerry Dilsaver

Wrightsville Beach is a coastal destination many fishermen are aware of, and once they fish here, they keep returning, thanks to the limitless fishing opportunities. […]

The top five counties in the 2010 harvest report accounted for a total of more than 2,000 gobblers tagged last spring.

2011 Turkey Season Forecast

Dan Kibler

If you compared North Carolina’s spring wild-turkey harvest from, say, 20 years ago, with last spring’s county-by-county numbers, one thing would stand out — other than the sheer number of places where gobblers were killed in 2010.
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NCDMF biologists are expecting a tough year for spotted seatrout anglers because of a second-straight winter of massive cold-stun kills.

2011 Saltwater Forecast

Craig Holt

North Carolina’s saltwater species are trying to hold their own, but there’s some trouble in River City — especially the portions of rivers that run through inshore waters before emptying into the Atlantic Ocean. […]

Backlashes

MFC decisions confirm pro-commercial stance

Craig Holt

The N.C. Marine Fisheries Commission is completely broken, always has been broken, and has been willingly corrupted and co-opted by the influence of a small but powerful group of special interests. […]

Biologist Kevin Dockendorf said he’s sampling more and more trophy stripers on the Roanoke every year.

Roanoke River on the Fly

Craig Holt

Guide Chuck Laughridge eased his aluminum boat along a rock-strewn shoreline at Weldon’s public boat ramp last April to pick up a late-arriving angler around 9 a.m. […]

Daniel Reynolds and father Dan made the 2011 Youth Turkey Hunting Day one to remember

Sumter youth doubles up on Youth Turkey Hunting Day gobblers

Brian Cope

Daniel Reynolds of Sumter had big plans for Youth Turkey Hunting Day, but his results were almost too good to be true. […]

The house gamefish bill would create more jobs at the coast and more taxable income for the state if it is passed and protects red drum (above), along with spotted seatrout and striped bass.

Gamefish proposal seen as jobs bill by House sponsor

Craig Holt

The scheduled public hearing for the North Carolina House of Representatives bill that would designate red drum, speckled trout and striped bass as gamefish in North Carolina coastal waters was postponed. […]