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Enormous piles of vegetables, including onions, cabbage, sweet potatoes and corn, will draw in hungry wild hogs.

A great pile of vegetables will bring wild hogs into gun range

To attract massive numbers of hogs and hold them in the vicinity, hunters should use lots of bait. […]

A good pair of binoculars can help hunters determine which wild hogs have the biggest tusks if a trophy animal is the objective.

Picking out a trophy wild hog can be tough for many hunters

Shooting the first feral hog that steps clear from a group or “sounder” and offers a good shot would be fine for a hunter interested mostly in the meat, but for a hunter looking for a trophy boar and a full head mount or skull mount, it requires steady nerves to find the one with the longest tusks. […]

Ken Spell took this 720-pound black bear in Pender County. Such heavyweight bears are unusual in the state's southern counties.

Salemburg hunter kills 720-pound bear in Pender County

Mike Marsh

Hunting at Long Bluff Hunting Club on December 12, 2015, Salemburg Resident Ken Spell took a 720-pound black bear. Spell said it is the biggest bear ever reported from Pender County. […]

“JAWS” boat restored, takes veterans fishing out of Beaufort

Brian Cope

In the 1960s and 70s, author Peter Benchley fished for sharks aboard the Cricket II, a boat that fished out of Montauk, N.Y. back then. […]

Johnnie Dale and Tommy Sullivan drag a 200-pound boar hog out of the woods.

Hogs and bogs -Pull North Carolina hogs out of their swampy homes and you can put bacon on the table

Mike Marsh

Many hunters feel as though they’ve lost their best friends during the downtime between the end of deer and bear season and the beginning of spring turkey season. […]

Capt. Chris Nichols with Carolinas Guide Service has been nailing Lake Wateree's stripers for the past few weeks.

Lake Wateree stripers easy pickings while trolling with live bait

Brian Cope

You’ll notice a couple of changes in this issue of South Carolina Sportsman, changes we hope you’ll like as we try to improve the magazine and bring more content that readers want. […]

The SCDNR paired up with State Law Enforcement to stock trout by helicopter in the lower Saluda River on Dec 15.

SCDNR stocks 18,000 trout in lower Saluda River

Brian Cope

As part of an ongoing effort to keep catchable populations of trout in the midlands, the SCDNR stocked about 18,000 rainbow and brown trout into the lower Saluda River just outside of Columbia on Dec. 15. […]

Spoil islands in the Cape Fear, like this one, are constantly changing in size and shape as the river channel is dredged and the tidal flow is altered.

Channel dredging created Cape Fear’s spoil islands

Jerry Dilsaver

The N.C. State Port in Wilmington is 24 miles upriver from the mouth of the Cape Fear River. A channel is maintained to allow large ships to travel upriver to the port. […]

The tidal flow and freshwater runoff can change the habitat around some spoil islands in the Cape Fear River from saltwater to brackish and all the way to freshwater.

The Cape Fear is unique among North Carolina rivers

Jerry Dilsaver

The Cape Fear is North Carolina’s only major river that flows directly into the ocean. Its headwaters reach into Virginia, and it becomes the Cape Fear about 4 miles below Jordan Lake Dam where the Haw and Deep rivers merge. […]

Side-imaging allows fishermen to see cover, bait and fish to the sides of his boat and in shallow water.

How does side-scan technology work?

Dusty Wilson

Side-scan or side-imaging has been around for a few years, long enough for units with such capabilities to be more affordable to the average user, providing applications for all kinds of fishing. […]