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Cover: October 2006 (NC)
You can grow trophy bucks on just about any land. […]
October 2006
Fishing Tournaments
Sorrell takes Lake Champlain crown
Rodney Sorrell of Stokesdale won his first BASS title by edging out Kotaro Kiriyama of Moody, Ala., by one ounce at the Aug. 17-19 Bassmaster Northern Tour event at Lake Champlain, Plattsburgh, N.Y. […]
Bass Fishing
Spotted bass take over Chatuge
Lake Chatuge, a popular TVA reservoir at the Hiwassee River in Clay County, N.C., and Towns County, Ga., once was known as a prime smallmouth bass lake, second only to Fontana Reservoir — but not any longer. […]
Fishing
Flat-sided crankbaits work well
Fourteen years ago next month, I wrote a newspaper column about flat-sided crankbaits after an afternoon excursion to High Rock Lake with the late Jerry Walters of Lexington, a fine bass fisherman who lost a battle with cancer several years ago at far too young an age. […]
Bass Fishing
Bass at fairly shallow depths now
It’s hard to talk about bass fishing in October in terms of things that should happen because so many things can. […]
Fishing
Position yourself for success
How many times have you given up on one of your favorite fishing spots and simply mentally crossed it off as they just weren’t biting today? […]
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Yadkin on the Fly
Fly-fishing evokes images of bubbling streams winding their way along pebble and rocky bottoms amidst mountainous terrain in the western reaches of North Carolina. […]
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Lifetime Buck
Jordan Barnes isn’t a run-of-the-mill 10-year-old boy. […]
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Mountain Magnets
Ginny’s high tail, flaring nostrils and the intensity of her point told me she had a snoot full of bird scent. […]
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Pork, Big Bucks Stop Here
While N.C. legislators wrangled with pork-barrel spending from a $2.1-billion surplus, Luke Vande Guchte of Wake Forest knew what his family would be spending some of their money for – a taxidermy mount of his first big-antlered buck deer. […]