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A handful of excellent campgrounds in North Carolina’s mountains offer access to some find trout streams, providing opportunities for some great, summertime family camping trips that could go a long way toward producing a future fisherman.

Summer is prime time for camping/fishing trips

Summer is an ideal time to plan a fishing/camping trip to the mountains. The weather is ideal, with warm days and cool evenings, making sleeping out a true pleasure. […]

Wildlife habitat must be constantly managed to consistently produce bumper crops of nice bucks, as well as turkeys, quail and rabbits.

Wildlife management never rests

Jeff Burleson

Any seasoned hunter understands the investments needed to grow quality deer and bumper populations of ducks and quail on their hunting lands. […]

Big bass are often suckers for a big meal during the summer, and they spend more time in shallow water than most fishermen can imagine.

Summer patterns that really work

Dustin Wilks

Summer brings on unique fishing challenges — increased boat traffic, oxygen-level problems and just plain hot temperatures. […]

Featured

Big Rock tournament is sued over disqualification

From News Reports

MOREHEAD CITY — Two lawsuits have been filed over the $900,000 in prize money for a record-breaking marlin caught and then disqualified in a North Carolina fishing tournament.

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Tarheel State hunters killed more than 13,700 turkeys during the April-May spring season, an increase of almost nine percent over the record-setting 2009 season.

Turkey harvest breaks record again

Craig Holt

North Carolina hunters killed a record 13,756 wild turkeys during the 2010 spring season. […]

Hatchery-supported trout streams in the N.C. mountains offer the chance to land a big trout.

Trout, smallmouths available at mountain streams

Craig Holt

Mountain trout and smallmouth fishing are “really good now,” according to a western North Carolina-based fly-fishing guide. […]

Backlashes

Written permission worth considering

Craig Holt

Nothing is more irritating to sportsmen or clubs than to own or lease land for hunting and have unauthorized folks hunt that land, perhaps killing a trophy animal the landowner or lessees watched all summer, waiting for hunting season to arrive. […]

Kiss-ing Triggers

Phillip Gentry

The order of the day was bottom-fishing when Capt. Devin Cage steered The Poacher out of the Oregon Inlet Fishing Center and into the ocean. […]

Sheepshead on the Rocks

Craig Holt

Fishing partners Lewis Emery and Larry Essick of Wilmington enjoy chasing a couple of species that are plentiful in their area, but they often take a break from red drum and sea trout to challenge sheepshead. […]

The North Toe and Nolichucky rivers are some of the best remaining habitat for elktoe mussels in North Carolina.

Smallmouth ‘Toe’-Hold

Mike Marsh

Scott Cunningham backed his trailer down a steep incline, the sort of grade where an angler hopes his parking brake holds when he off-loads his boat, lest he need a wrecker or winch to fish his pickup out of the water. […]