January 2013 Archives - Page 3 of 8

The author caught this nice striped bass on a wintertime trip for speckled trout in the Pamlico Sound watershed.

Welcome bycatch: stripers

Fishermen crawling grubs through deep holes in Pamlico Sound and its tributaries during the winer should expect a familiar by-catch: striped bass. […]

Backlashes

New administration in unique situation

Craig Holt

For the first time in 20 years, North Carolina will have a Republican governor, Pat McCrory. […]

South Carolina duck season is still in full swing, and woodcock season runs all month.

Quacks and Timberdoodles — How to make the most of your late-season duck and woodcock hunts

John Gribb

By January, the easy bird hunting is long past, unless a plantation-owning friend invites you for a quail hunt. Aside from plantation or shooting-preserve quail, however, other wild birds are legal game this month.

Duck season is still in full swing, and woodcock season runs all month.

It is an understatement to say that most South Carolina bird hunters do not focus on woodcock, but hunters with dogs — especially transplanted Yankees — love them. Woodcock are a favorite of bird dogs because they are easy. Put your dogs in good woodcock cover, and they will find the birds. Woodcock are easy to smell, easy to point and flush, and easy to carry on a retrieve. […]

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