On opening day of deer season in 2017, Steve Biszmaier, a 53-year-old heating and air conditioning parts salesman from Wilmington, N.C., was hunting at Holly Shelter Game Land in Pender County as he has for 30 years. […]
Three subspecies of rabbits — cottontail, marsh and Appalachian — inhabit North Carolina. Cottonails thrive in early-successional habitat (cutovers) that afford cover and safety from avian and ground predators. […]
North Carolina is home to four varieties of squirrels — gray, fox, red/Appalachian and flying — hunters target all of them except fliers. Gray squirrels are ubiquitous at all forests that have a substantial number of hardwood mast trees. […]
While many outdoorsmen spend most of their time in the woods during the cool months, late summer and early fall are definitely times to be beating the bushes looking for a big buck. […]
Let’s take a look at North Carolina’s top public game lands for deer hunting. […]
Oregon Inlet is a prominent port in the sportfishing world and familiar to most big-game fishermen. The inlet is often rough and always unpredictable, but the offshore fishing is typically excellent. […]
For some hunters, opening day of dove season is the most-anticipated day of the year. It is generally the first day most hunters get to put on their camouflage and break out their shotguns. […]
More and more hunters are looking past public land in favor of joining hunt clubs and leases. It seems they are more willing to spend a lot of money to hunt on with others on a few hundred acres of land rather than spend $30.50 for access to hundreds of thousands of acres of WMA land. […]
Catching Pee Dee River catfish from kayaks is fun and productive. […]
Using fluorocarbon leaders can mean the difference between catching your limit and not catching anything at all. […]
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