Statewide NC Archives - Page 177 of 633

Live Target Rigged Shrimp

When Live Target Lures decided it was time for fishermen and fish to fall in love with a soft-plastic shrimp imitation, it turned to R&D dream team leader Victor Cook. […]

Derrick Snow's 50.3-pound king mackerel was decked the day after he hooked it from the end of Johnnie Mercer's Pier.

Two kings make great escapes, but just temporarily

Jerry Dilsaver

Plenty of fish stories are about the big one that got away, but there aren’t too many about the big one that got away and was still caught. […]

The international satellite-aided search-and-rescue system is about to take a giant step forward in efficiency.

What is Meosar?

Allan Tarvid

Delving into the COSPAS-SARSAT system can quickly have you drowning in alphabet soup. […]

By August, bass in many lakes are actually in crankbait range after spending July in extremely deep water.

When it’s as hot as it has been this summer, and August has taken over from July, most fishermen think about limiting their trips to the first few hours in the morning and the hours around sundown. […]

Dog days can be for cats

Terry Madewell

August may be known as the dog days, but it’s actually a great time for cats, too, especially the big blues and flatheads of the Santee Cooper. Excellent largemouth and bream action on both lakes also provide opportunities if you know where and how to find them. […]

North Carolina continues to produce trophy bucks on a regular basis, despite ups and downs in the herd.

Harvest was down in 94 percent of North Carolina counties

Craig Holt

Biologists emphasized that declines in the deer harvest in 2014 were concentrated in five counties north of Raleigh, but they actually dropped in 94 of North Carolina’s 100 counties. […]

North Carolina and South Carolina hunters have the entire month of September to thin out populations of resident Canada geese.

Discourage geese from setting up in food plots, impoundments

Jeff Burleson

With the deer season just around the corner, this year’s batch of cool-season food plots should be in the planning stage. […]

Geese

Expanded methods available for North Carolina goose hunters

Jeff Burleson

For hunters looking to heat up their shotgun barrels, fill up the freezer and contribute to conservation and eradication efforts, the resident Canada goose season arrives on Sept. 1. […]

How individual landowners and hunters plan their harvest goals should take into consideration both does and bucks.

Top deer counties for 2014 season

Terry Madewell

County rankings for the 2014 deer season are compiled by the S.C. Department of Natural Resources in two categories: total harvest and harvest by square mile. The data points hunters to areas that were productive last season and in seasons past. […]

Mike Popovich puts the tape on a sand tiger shark that measured almost 8 feet and was caught at night, when serious shark fishermen really like to head to the surf.

Fishermen don’t lure sharks to the shoreline, they catch fish that are already there

Brian Cope

Stan Warren, who founded Requiem Fishing, said his crew does everything it can to avoid fishing around swimmers — including fishing mostly at night — and he emphasized that his anglers are not drawing the sharks into an area, just catching the ones already there. […]