Freshwater Fishing
Stay legal: know your diamonds
Trout-fishing regulations in North Carolina can change from stream to stream and even from one part of a stream to another. […]
May 2015
Freshwater Fishing
Fast action can be the rule
Guide Truman Lyons said that live-bait fishing for stripers this month is not necessarily wait-and-hope fishing, it’s usually fast- paced, and often, multiple fish are hooked at the same time. […]
Freshwater Fishing
Tanks a bunch
For fishermen planning on using live bait to catch hybrids and striped bass, a bait tank is a piece of equipment that’s high on the list of importance. […]
Bass Fishing
Live bait will produce bigger Lake Russell spotted bass
Guide Wendell Wilson often uses live bait to help his clients catch more spotted bass, and he said live bait can be dynamite on really large fish this month. […]
Offshore Fishing
Dolphin: Clown prince of the open ocean
With their bright colors and wild, entertaining acrobatics, dolphin are considered by many to be the clown prince of the open ocean. […]
Freshwater Fishing
Why herring?
While trophy striped bass are frequently caught by anglers on unusual like 2-pound gizzard shad and 12-inch rainbow trout, day-in and day-out, the live bait of choice for stripers under 20 pounds and all hybrids is live blueback herring. […]
Hunting
Turn up the heat on coyotes now
Historically, coyotes were not part of the ecosystem in the Carolinas. Before 1985, only five of North Carolina’s 100 counties had coyotes. […]
Offshore Fishing
Hatteras Inlet
Hatteras Inlet has a stormy history, but the changes in the past decade have created storms that have little to do with the weather. […]
Inshore Fishing
Make strategic casts for trophy fish
Sight-casting for cobia can be exciting, especially multiple fish and some trophy sized individuals are hovering at close range. […]
Sidebars
To decoy or not to decoy
Marshall Collette never uses decoys in the morning but employs them almost exclusively at fields in the afternoon and evening. […]