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Bass pro Andy Montgomery catches his best jerkbait bass on the lower end of Lake Wylie, where the water is less stained.

Catch more bass by understanding Wylie’s shad

Find the shad, and you’ll find the bass. That well-worn wisdom is true on Lake Wylie, especially in the winter. But to find the shad, it helps to know a little about them. […]

Don’t give deer any advance warning of your presence, and you might score on a real wall-hanger like Alisa Green did last season in Wake County, N.C.

Without alarms, deer more likely to run into trouble

Jeff Burleson

The Carolinas, despite their rural setting, are far from what most people would call a wilderness. The overwhelming majority of the states’ deer population is accustomed to automobile horns, sirens, dogs barking and other symptoms of human occupancy. […]

Sex sells when it comes to deer scents

Phillip Gentry

Using scents throughout the rutting period is mainstream to what most deer hunters accept as scent luring the animals into range. To whitetail deer, odors are a language until themselves that tell a very pungent story. […]

When the corresponding food source is in season, food-attractant scents can be used to direct deer into specific areas of a feeding zone.

The lowdown on food attractants

Phillip Gentry

Anyone who has ventured into the woods with gun or bow in hand has considered a strategy of hunting deer based around feeding preferences: natural, planted or dumped out on the ground. But have you ever considered a hunting strategy based on the scent of food? […]

A set of quality binoculars can give hunters a tremendous advantage when hunting cutovers.

Good glass is good judgement when hunting cutovers

Pete Rogers

Good optics are a must for hunting clear-cut areas. The need to search for deer in the briars and brambles that swallow them in these areas is essential. […]

Enhanced hearing can help hunters identify and locate deer in cutover areas.

Make a big noise

Pete Rogers

Hearing enhancement is often overlooked when hunting clear-cuts. How can it help when I’m hunting animals I don’t expect to see at close ranges? But it’s common to hear hunters say, “I heard the deer before I saw him when he was walking through the clear-cut. It sounds like paper tearing.” […]

Does the moon trigger the whitetail rut?

Craig Holt

It’s an age-old, chicken-and-egg question with an answer that seems important because it’s generally accepted by old-time hunters. But likely it’s meaningless. […]

On his first North Carolina hunt, and his first time hunting with a muzzleloader, Collin Howlett killed this trophy buck that's been green-scored at over 170 inches.

First North Carolina hunt ends in trophy buck for California transplant

Jeff Burleson

For 21-year-old Collin Howlett of Walnut Cove, his deer hunting aspirations will be tough to match after his mind-boggling mid-day hunt on Nov. 5. Shortly after noon, Howlett drilled a 170 ¾-in bruiser on a friend’s Rockingham County hunting property after only sitting in the stand for 45 minutes. […]