Hunting
Habitat improvement series: Mecklenburg Hunting Club in the Sandhills
For 50 years, Mecklenburg Hunting Club has offered superb hunting opportunities for its 70-member cast in the middle of North Carolina’s Sandhills region. […]
November 2013
Deer Hunting
How to choose a call
Game calls have been around for nearly 400 years. Duck calls were among the first type readily available; they were used to entice ducks into caged enclosures. […]
Hunting
Keep those cameras focused
Even though trail cameras have been around for decades, hunters have only recently learned how to get the most out of their surveillance equipment. […]
Bass Fishing
Know your limits
Fishermen who are interested in keeping a limit of spotted bass for the table and fish a number of Upstate lakes may find it useful to carry a scorecard to keep up with what’s legal to keep based on what body of water you’re on. […]
Ducks
Fire is friend and foe
The 2011 Juniper Road Fire burned holes in Holly Shelter’s Lodge Road Impoundment dikes; however, it did more good for ducks than bad. […]
Bass Fishing
Seeing spots, I think….
When setting the revamped regulations for black bass, SCDNR biologists were wary of splitting limits between similar-looking bass species for fear of anglers harvesting the wrong fish. […]
Bass Fishing
Commission, CP&L decisions boosted big Harris bass
With Shearon Harris Lake’s popularity among bass fishermen and its proximity to the heavily populated Raleigh-Durham area, fishing pressure could have hurt its reputation for producing trophy bass. […]
Sidebars
Man-made and manipulated duck foods
The Lodge Road Impoundment has 21 acres of fields in the shape of an “I” that were ditched and planted in small grains several years ago, partly with the help of funding from Ducks Unlimited. […]
Bass Fishing
Harris has recovered from first fish kill
Shearon Harris Lake experienced its worst — and probably first — fish kill this past April, when fishermen noticed a majority of the 110 largemouth bass, 35 crappie, 20 sunfish and two catfish near the Holleman Landing boat ramp. […]
Sidebars
Greentree impoundments are ‘nut’ havens
A greentree impoundment takes advantage of acorns, of one of the primary food sources of larger puddle ducks, including wood ducks, mallards and black ducks. […]