Deer Hunting
Tips for bagging a pre-rut deer
Whitetail deer, particularly bucks, use their noses to avoid danger, and to find food and girlfriends. Scent knowledge is never more important to them than during the pre-rut period. […]
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Freshwater Fishing
Nymphs: the cool flies
If you want to catch trout when hatches are few or nonexistent, use a nymph. […]
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Turkey harvest off more than 10 percent in 2013, SCDNR says
The harvest data from the 2013 turkey season is in, and according to Charles Ruth, the deer and turkey project leader for the S.C. Department of Natural Resources, hunter success fell appreciably from 2012 levels. […]
Inshore Fishing
Have bait, will paddle
Regardless of the watercraft under your feet, fall fishing often means chasing fish that require live bait to catch. Powerboat anglers often take for granted the space and other considerations required to operate a bait tank or built-in livewell — a luxury for which most paddlers simply don’t have space or carrying capacity. […]
High Tides and Tall Tails
Catching redfish and speckled trout on topwater lures
Nothing compares to seeing a topwater lure crashed from below by a big speckled trout or redfish. […]
Greener Pastures
Love hunting? Promote it
Hunting has always been an important facet to American and human culture. Yet the history of wildlife in America could have led down an entirely different path. […]
Deer Hunting
Kershaw County “freak” buck is first Bag-A-Buck contest winner
A Kershaw County hunter is the winner of South Carolina Sportsman’s first monthly Bag-A-Buck contest for his entry of a huge non-typical in full velvet killed on Sept. 28. […]
Deer Hunting
Chatham County hunter wins first monthly Bag-A-Buck contest
The second time was the charm for Jake Muehlbach. Early in bow season, Muehlbach, from Pittsboro, had a big 8-point buck wander in close to his stand in Chatham County, but the buck was skittish and left without giving him a shot. […]
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Gill nets back in North Carolina waters; few turtle interactions are recorded
The N.C. Division of Marine Fisheries’ decision not to reopen some inside waters to gill-netting until Sept. 30 seems to have been the right move, with only two turtle encounters the first three nights and good catches of flounder. […]
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Maiden bass pro Cherry caps rookie season with BASS win
Maiden’s Hank Cherry won the Sept. 27-29 BASS Evan Williams Bourbon Championship on Michigan’s Muskegon Lake, with a 5-fish catch of smallmouth bass weighing 17-8 to beat out Michigan bass whiz Kevin VanDam, who had 14-14. […]