Northeast NC Archives - Page 61 of 77

Cut down the size of your decoy spread late in the season and don’t call as much, guide Josh Roberson suggests.

Late-season ducks have advanced degrees

From the beginning to the close of North Carolina’s 60-day season, ducks become increasingly cautious of the common tricks and techniques practiced by most hunters. […]

Layton Whitehurst of Wilmington finished off his North Carolina duck-hunting “grand slam” at age 10.

Legacies live on!

Jeff Burleson

Across the country, hunting is not drawing a lot of collective interest from the nation’s youth, and North Carolina is one of the few states showing an interest in preserving and promoting the time-treasured pastime of hunting. […]

While ducks will move in from the north on significant cold fronts, the will also migrate locally under certain weather patterns.

Final shot — Tips for late-season North Carolina ducks

Jeff Burleson

As deer season comes to a close on New Year’s Day, many hunters trade in their lead for steel-packed rounds to battle the wind, cold and the final visiting flocks of feathered opponents. […]

Brandon “Big Red” Barnes put the killing shot into the skull of this 780-pound Washington County bear – believed to be the second-heaviest ever killed in North Carolina

Washington County hunters chase down 780-pound black bear, second-largest ever taken in North Carolina

Jeff Burleson

Hunters need not travel to Canada or Alaska to take a record-sized black bear. Eastern North Carolina’s mix of agriculture and rural wilderness is a haven for one of the largest aggregations of black bears in the world – and some of the biggest, as evidenced by an enormous bear killed in Washington County on Dec. 14. […]

Plenty of blackfin tuna between 20 and 40 pounds, plus a lot of smaller ones, have been caught offshore out of Hatteras over the past two weeks.

Hatteras fleet catching plenty of blackfin tuna

Jerry Dilsaver

The fish have been getting a break at Hatteras in the time since Hurricane Sandy took out a section of NC 12 between Oregon Inlet and Rodanthe. […]

Richard Andrews caught this striper, believed to weigh near 50 pounds, in the Pamlico Sound on Dec. 14.

Pamlico Sound spits out 50-pound striper

Jeff Burleson

Capt. Richard Andrews of Tar-Pam Guide Service landed the biggest striper ever reported on hook-and-line in the greater Pamlico Sound area on Dec. 14. […]

With less than two weeks left before the season closes, fishermen out of Grand Strand ports, especially Georgetown, are mopping up on big grouper.

Last-chance grouper bite is great out of Georgetown

Jeff Burleson

The last opportunity to take home some tasty grouper is facing South Carolina fishermen, as the annual season closure begins on New Year’s Day. […]

Federal wildlife officials are offering a reward for information about the shooting of a protected red wolf in Tyrell County last month.

Reward offered in latest red wolf shooting in NE North Carolina

North Carolina Sportsman

The U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service is requesting assistance with an investigation involving the suspected illegal take of a radio-collared red wolf that was recently found dead with a suspected gunshot wound on November 29, 2012, south of Columbia, in Tyrrell County. […]

Speckled trout have been a big deal around Little River for weeks, with reds and black drum entering the fray more recently.

Black drum, redfish adding to great speckled trout action in Little River waters

Jeff Burleson

The fall frenzy for speckled trout has been non-stop in the waters around Little River since early November, but in recent weeks, fishermen have been able to add to quick limits of specks some black drum and redfish. […]

This Pamlico River striper is typical of the ‘resident’ fish that stay in the river and Pamlico Sound almost year-round.

The ‘lines’ of winter

Craig Holt

Most North Carolina anglers know about the striped bass migration in the Roanoke River. The “rockfish run” draws thousands of fishermen each March, April and May. […]