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Don’t bark up the wrong tree; put your deer stand in the right one
As hunters prepare for the peak of deer season or the changes in deer behavior, many are looking at hanging or moving tree stands into just the right locations. […]
October 2015
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Spot-on fall flounder
The spot run each fall causes a lot of excitement along the Grand Strand, and few are immune to the frenzy of the tasty panfish. J Baisch of Fishful Thinking Charters in Murrells Inlet also gets excited about the annual migration, but it’s not because of what’s in front. […]
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Fish fast for fall bass on Lake Tillery
Dylan Fulk had his trolling motor on high and his baitcasting rod in perpetual motion, firing casts at just about any piece of visible cover as he worked a bank in Lake Tillery’s Jacobs Creek. […]
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How the Green Mountain monster meet its doom
Western North Carolina’s mountains can’t carry a large number of whitetail deer because the habitat just doesn’t match the rest of the state, so trophy bucks from the high country aren’t too common. […]
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Stalk fall Santee slabs – Sample Lake Marion’s great fall crappie action
The long rod bowed into a deep, inverted “U” as another slab crappie was swung aboard the boat. Guide Buster Rush grabbed his client’s fish and sized it up. […]
Currents
Time to get ducks, er, deer, in a row
Sportsmen in South Carolina face some interesting things in the coming weeks. […]
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Get on track and find bucks after the shot
It takes hours, days, sometimes years to figure out the daily travel patterns of a trophy buck. These grown-ups are scholars in the wilderness, living long enough to sense trouble from most of the average hunter’s tricks. […]
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Kings on the throne – The fall run of king mackerel off the Cape Fear River and Oak Island, N.C.
October is a special time in the ocean around the mouth of the Cape Fear River at Southport, where king mackerel gather between and try to devour every baitfish they can, arriving the last week or so of September and increasing in numbers until mid-October, when the slowly begin to move off the beach. […]
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Powder burns aren’t all that bad, especially this month when primitive weapon season arrives in the Upstate
Other than a handful of Wildlife Management Areas below the fall line, primitive weapons seasons for deer in South Carolina have always been an Upstate thing. Maybe the proximity to the mountains is what beckons hunters to squeeze in a few days between stick-and-string and the heavy artillery to honor those pioneers who settled the land with their trusty smokepole at their side. […]
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Threat assessment? Something is rotten
When is a threat not a threat? In the case of the N.C. Marine Fisheries Commission’s southern flounder fiasco in August, Rep. Bob Steinburg, a Republican who represents several northeastern North Carolina counties in the heart of commercial-fishing territory, made a very real threat to the members of the Commission. […]