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Bass eat less during the winter, but they still eat. Catch your share with these tips.

Top 6 tips for catching winter bass

Anglers can catch plenty of bass during the cold weather months. This is especially true during warming trends, which we get often during the winter in the Carolinas. […]

Silversport

Carolina Sportsman

Hunters have long been trying to block or camouflage their natural smell from game animals, using scent sprays to camouflage those aromas, storing their hunting clothes in containers that keep them away from unwanted odors or even buying clothes treated with scent blockers. […]

January means big blue catfish on South Carolina’s Lake Monticello.

Feeling blue? You betcha!

Terry Madewell

If you wanting to get your string stretched to the limit by a big catfish in cold weather, you’ll be hard pressed to do better than South Carolna’s Lake Monticello. It is an real wintertime catfish destination for a couple of very good reasons. […]

Hybrid bass have replaced stripers as No. 1 targets for many Lake Norman anglers and guides.

Hunt Norman’s hybrids – February is time to hunt hybrid bass on North Carolina’s Lake Norman

Tony Garitta

In 2012, when the N.C. Wildlife Resources Commission decided to quit stocking striped bass in Lake Norman, that probably wasn’t the best news for Bob Curan, who grew up fishing for striped bass in the Chesapeake Bay before moving to North Carolina in 1997 and putting in 15 years learning the 32,500-acre lake north of Charlotte. […]

Carolina's rabbit hunters have plenty of opportunities.

Run, rabbit run! Beagles — and hunters — can have plenty of fun in the Carolinas

Craig Holt

If Alex Trebek unveiled this clue on his TV quiz show, Jeopardy, would you come up with the correct question? […]

Extend the quail-hunting tradition on a Carolina preserve.

Extending the quail tradition

Phillip Gentry

Before whitetail deer and wild turkeys became the flagship species for hunters in the Southeast, bobwhite quail was king. Back when boys rolled up into the high-school parking lot with shotguns in gun racks in the back window of the truck — and no one minded — it was common to stop along the way to school and kick up a covey of quail before heading to class. […]

Top to bottom winter slabs

Phillip Gentry

Crappie, just like anglers, are looking forward to the spring weather. But that doesn’t mean they won’t bite now. Anglers can catch a pile of slabs in February, especially if they follow these tips. […]

There’s no bigger factor than the weather when it comes to winter trout fishing in North Carolina’s inshore waters.

Full frontal assault – Winter speckled trout fishing is a full-frontal assault in North Carolina waters

Mike Marsh

Allen Jernigan launched his 18-foot tunnel-hull skiff and pointed the bow into the channel of a coastal river. The wind was calm, the water slick. Within minutes, he turned out of the main channel and headed into a shallow bay. […]

For winter Carolina reds, let your kayak takes you to the right spots.

Cold yaks, hot reds

Jerry Dilsaver

Approaching the mouth of a creek, Noah Lynk warned a handful of kayakers that the water would be shallow, that they might bump bottom a time or two, and that they would have to wade back across it when the left — but he was certain the fishing would be worth it. […]