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Gator Trax Boats

After making a name in the mud boat industry for more than 14 years, Gator Trax Boats have moved into the mainstream and are building boats intended to be powered by standard outboards. […]

Side- and down-imaging technology can help crappie anglers find and orient to fish before even wetting a line.

One of the ways that crappie pro Kent Driscoll has stayed on top of tournament leader boards has been by mastering the use of the newest sonar technology, and he relies on it as much as anything in his boat. […]

Pro-Drive X Series Boats

Jerry Dilsaver

Pro-Drive builds boats and motors to be used as a unit. The Pro-Drive team of designers and builders all use shallow-water boats and drives for their hunting and fishing adventures, so they’ve learned from experience what works and what doesn’t. […]

By trailing a length of logging chain behind the boat, anglers fishing from the bow can go slow even in strong winds.

Dealing with wind

Phillip Gentry

As a tournament crappie fisherman Charlotte’s Mike Parrott is no stranger to fishing when he has to. He doesn’t get the luxury of choosing when tournaments will be held and most times, unless a dire situation exists, it’s time to hit the water. […]

Randy Howell, the 2014 Bassmaster Classic champion, shows off his "namesake," the Livingstone Lures "Howeller."

Howell’s new Livingston crankbait makes plenty of noise

Tony Garitta

Randy Howell, the former Lake Gaston bass pro and guide who now lives in Springville, Ala., won the 2014 Bassmaster Classic, and Livingston Lures has rewarded him by naming a crankbait after him: the Livingston Howeller. […]

Shallow waters and areas that don’t see much pressure or are hard for a larger boat to access are prime kayak bass fishing spots.

Make March bass a must

Phillip Gentry

March kicks off the prespawn for bass across South Carolina, and regardless of whether you are a fan of largemouth, smallmouth or spotted — or perhaps all three — it’s a good time to catch them, and often big ones. […]

Give your baits more action and look for pinch points where the water is moving for better slack-tide fishing.

Tips for better slack-tide inshore action

Brian Cope

Experienced saltwater anglers know that the best times to fish are usually when the tide is moving either in or out, but savvy anglers don’t just head to the dock shore when the tide is slack. […]

Young corn plants do best when seeds are planted when soil temperatures are 65 to 70 degrees.

Keep your corn warm

Jeff Burleson

Luckily for most of the Carolinas, warm conditions welcome many outdoor enthusiasts well before the first official day of spring.Luckily for most of the Carolinas, warm conditions welcome many outdoor enthusiasts well before the first official day of spring. […]

RigRaps are plastic storage boxes designed to hold pre-tied rigs of all sizes, including Alabama rigs.

Necessity was mother of invention when it came to RigRaps

Dan Kibler

Glen Oberacker remembers the day he realized he needed a better way to store all the rigs he carried offshore to bottomfish. […]

A disease outbreak around the Raleigh-Durham area and a tremendousd acorn crop are probably the driving factors behind a lower-than-expected deer harvest in 2014.

Poor deer season last fall has multiple causes, biologist says

Craig Holt

Evin Stanford, the N.C. Wildlife Resources Commission’s supervising deer biologist, faced dozens of questions from hunters at the Feb. 26-March 1 Dixie Deer Classic in Raleigh, but at least the questions were all similar […]