May 2007

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At the Rock Hop

Dan Kibler

If you’re fishing for striped bass at the Roanoke River, April 30 is the last day you can keep any fish for the frying pan or freezer.

Somehow, that doesn’t faze guides George Beckwith and Rod Thomas. […]

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Drum Line

Bob Goldstein

Fall drum are predictable, readily located, widespread, and scattered, but that’s when most fishermen pursue them at the Outer Banks during the peak of the fishing season. […]

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Go Long for Groupers

Mike Marsh

It was a nearly windless morning and the sun was just turning a black night into the grayness of predawn at Atlantic Beach.

Twin 250 Yamaha four-stroke engines mumbled quietly as they warmed up, and the turbulence of the engines’ vibrations on the otherwise quiet water of the boat harbor foretold which boat was being readied for a day of fishing. […]

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Stream Dreams

Jim Casada

Although I cut my fishing teeth casting for trout at small Appalachian high-country creeks, there’s something about bronzebacks that lurk in moving water which always has been enchanting. […]

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Gobbler Dreams

Craig Holt

One of the tenets of successful trophy deer hunting also holds true for chasing spring wild turkeys — go where the gobblers are. […]

Backlashes

Turkey fight ends; herrings; a gun nut

Craig Holt

In what we hope will be the last attempt at an earlier spring turkey season start (first Saturday in April) anywhere in North Carolina, a N.C. Wildlife Resources Commission subcommitee voted not to consider the proposal that was unpopular with the N.C. National Wild Turkey Federation, WRC biologists, and following a staff study of the proposal that showed multiple potential problems. […]