Fishing
Berkley HAVOC
Designed by B.A.S.S. Elite Series Pro Bobby Lane, the new Berkley HAVOC 4-inch Craw Fatty gives anglers a craw bait that is versatile enough to fish with any technique. […]
April 2011
Bass Fishing
Pinnacle baitcasters
Pinnacle’s all-metal, incredibly smooth Tournament Class Performa baitcasters offer bass anglers the highest levels of precision, durability and performance all at an affordable price. […]
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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. […]
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Stream of Dreams
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. […]
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Saltwater series spotlight: Wrightsville Beach
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. […]
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2011 Turkey Season Forecast
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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2011 Saltwater Forecast
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
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. […]
Bass Fishing
Roanoke River on the Fly
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. […]
Inshore Fishing
Start the spring small, and the big fish will come
What’s most important about fishing during the spring is to take what the water gives you in terms of fish, release the small ones and work your way up to bigger fish. […]