Fishing
How to get the best cartography on your chart plotter’s screen
Back when the earliest digital maps for freshwater lakes began to appear on chart plotter screens, I was struck by how different they were. […]
Statewide NC
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NCDMF wants to see this weekend’s red snapper carcasses
The N.C. Division of Marine Fisheries is looking for a few good red snapper. […]
Events & Announcements
North Carolina hunter-safety teams sweep national championships
North Carolina teams captured first place honors in junior and senior divisions at the 27th annual International Youth Hunter Education Challenge, a demanding, week-long shooting and outdoors skills competition in Raton, N.M., sponsored by the National Rifle Association. […]
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Anglers from Louisburg, Creedmoor win on Lake Gaston
Chuck Murray of Louisburg and Randy Groves of Creedmoor topped a field of 14 teams at the Aug. 3 TOM CATT Lake Gaston Trail tournament on Gasto […]
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Parker, Fleming win seniors tournament on Lake Murray
Skip Parker of Laurens and Columbia’s Burl Fleming were one of only six teams that brought a five-fish limit to the scales of the Aug. 10 Lake Murray Seniors Fishing Tournament, and they won the contest by one pound […]
Head for the Mountains
Take a kid fishing
The first Saturday in June, delayed-harvest trout waters switch from catch-and-release to catch-and-keep fishing. Streams are crowded, and due to the large numbers of trout that have been stocked, just about everyone goes home with a limit of seven trout. […]
Other Hunting
Look out for diseased deer
Disease in the whitetail woods is responsible for annual mortality that can be significant some years. Epizootic hemorrhagic disease (EHD or blue tongue) is the main culprit in the Carolinas. […]
Other Hunting
Wildlife Habitat Initiative:
Piedmont Hunt Club, Inc. (PHC) is a private hunting club that has operated in South Carolina’s Fairfield and Chester counties for more than 27 years. […]
Deer Hunting
NCBA members enjoy week at Butner-Falls of Neuse
Butner-Falls of Neuse Game Land’s most-popular, archery-only zone is on the northern edge of the public lands in the Granville County section and mostly inside the limits of the town of Butner. […]
Deer Hunting
Doe do’s and dont’s
According to biologist Charles Ruth, the harvest of doe deer has dropped in recent years as has the overall deer harvest, but he said the decrease is not necessarily a bad thing. […]