Backlashes
Politicians, NRA miss target again
Millions of words — some accurate, many inaccurate — have been spoken and written about the Dec. 14 school shooting and mass murder at Sandy Hook Elementary School. […]
March 2013
Bass Fishing
Prespawn Explosion — March is a great month for a Lake Murray bass-fishing trip
As far as Ben Lee of Columbia is concerned, there is no better month to fish on Lake Murray than March. […]
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Hen Pecked — Patience and perseverance will carry the day for hunters who can wait out a longbeard
There’s one word that will make a turkey hunter discharge a mouth call with a dry-mouth gag, flip his friction call to the ground or toss his tube call in abject frustration. […]
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Plinking Crappie — Get Lake Wylie slabs out from under docks
Slowly motoring up to a marina in the South Fork River, Mike Parrot cut the controls and eased his trolling motor into the water. A past Crappie Masters national champion from Charlotte, Parrott leaves behind his “heavy artillery” when he’s fishing for fun on home waters of Lake Wylie. […]
Fishing Tournaments
Norman spits out big cats
Ken Tucker of Lincolnton and Aaron Ciucevich of Harrisburg brought two blue cats to the scales weighing 55.7 pounds to top a field of 21 teams at the Jan. 12 N.C. Catfish Association Tournament Series event at Lake Norman. […]
Bass Fishing
The changing nature of Lake Murray
Tales of honey holes that produce all the time on Lake Murray are hard to come by these days because, according to Hal Beard, a fisheries biologist with the S.C. Department of Natural Resources, who said the nature of the lake has changed. […]
Sidebars
Sweet talking for henned gobblers after lunch
Call-maker and veteran hunter John Tanner of Hemingway said one of the best attributes a good hunter can have when working henned gobblers is know when enough is enough. […]
Freshwater Fishing
Carolina Crappie Association
Crappie fishing circles have seen a dwindling in size and scope of the national tournaments that used to regularly make stops in the Carolinas. […]
Bass Fishing
Pulling female bass off the bed
Female largemouth bass stay close to their nests during the spawn, and are a challenge to land. […]
Sidebars
The biology of henned-up gobblers
Encountering a henned-up gobbler is a situation that is prevalent through a significant portion of the early turkey hunting season. It can extend for a considerable time, enough that hunters should learn to cope with it. […]