Dove season makes most hunters break out their shotguns and camouflage for the first time in the fall, and while most opening day dove shoots are as much a social event as a hunting situation, the hunting will get serious in a crop field with several thousand winged migrants. […]
Not many turkey hunters are fans of The Notorious B.I.G., but if they could see guide Karl Helmkamp’s Biggie Smalls strutting jake decoy in action, they might reconsider. […]
Because 2015 was such a fruitful year for North Carolina cobia fishermen, they’ll have a big payback to make in 2016.
Bobby Izard carries an arsenal of artificial lures with him when fishing for redbreast sunfish. While some anglers have their favorite lures that they stick to religiously, Izard thinks that’s a mistake.
The Johnson Beetle Spin is tough to beat when fishing for redbreast. Billy Garner of Ridgeville is a big fan of this lure, but he adds a little something to them this time of year: a live cricket.
The traditional baits for catching redfin pickerel are the pelvic fin and the top or bottom half of its forked tail.
Lake Marion anglers are fascinated by shellcrackers, aka redear sunfish, for a variety of reasons, size being one. For a species lumped in with a variety of sunfish collectively called “bream”, the shellcracker is a giant.
The best way to keep and carry redfin pickerel is in a plastic pail with a tight-fitting lid.
The N.C. Wildlife Resources Commission’s Angler Recognition Program awards outstanding catches with a suitable-for-framing certificate featuring the artwork of Duane River.
South Carolina’s cobia numbers have been on a roller-coaster over the past 10 years after a relatively stable recreational harvest through the 1980s and 1990s.
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