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Southern Pines Hunt Club has experienced great results from its extensive food-plot planting program.

Habitat Improvement Series: Southern Pines of Bamberg

Southern Pines Hunt Club is a private hunting club operating in Bamberg County, S.C., that has been organized for more than 12 years. […]

Jonathan Thompson leaves nothing to chance late in the season, altering his camouflage patterns, calling less frequently and letting gobblers do the work.

Make sure you know your shotgun

Bennett Kirkpatrick

If you don’t know your gun and its limits, you are asking for trouble. Pattern your gun to see where the densest part of the pattern hits. […]

Make sure when you set up on a bird, you don’t hurt your chances by making a gobbler walk through an obstacle.

Make sure your setup won’t doom you

Bennett Kirkpatrick

Choosing a poor setup is a common problem. Often, we doom a hunt because of the spot where we make a setup. […]

When putting out decoys, set them away from the direction you expect a gobbler to show up so you’re not in his line of sight as he looks at the decoy.

Be careful with decoy placements

Bennett Kirkpatrick

Improper placement of decoys can ruin a hunt. Never position your decoys directly between yourself and the direction you expect the tom to come from — for two reasons. […]

Sam and Michael Smith of Lexington had the field covered in the Yadkin Team Tournament last weekend on High Rock Lake, flipping bushes for a limit that weighed almost 20 pounds.

Lexington pair tames High Rocks ‘bush bass’ for tournament win

Tony Garitta

While most teams got bushwhacked in the buttonwood bushes at the May 11 Yadkin Team Tournament at High Rock Lake, Sam and Michael Smith of Lexington probed the vegetation for 19.21 pounds to take the first-place prize of $386. […]

Dwayne Smith (left) and Lee Padrick won the N.C. Spring Redfish Shootout with these two upper-slot reds that weighed a total of 11.89 pounds.

Smith, Padrick win N.C. Spring Redfish Shootout

Jerry Dilsaver

Dwayne Smith and Lee Padrick won the N.C. Spring Redfish Shootout on May 11 out of Sneads Ferry with a pair of redfish that weighed 11.89 pounds. […]

Take care of everything you can before getting your boat in position to back down the ramp.

Emily Post at the ramp?

Jerry Dilsaver

During the boat and fishing shows over the winter, I had the opportunity to talk with a lot of readers, and one topic that I heard a lot about was proper behavior and manners at launching ramps. […]

Kayak anglers are branching out, fishing for nearly all species. Even monster catfish are no longer safe from the plastic armada.

Why not big fish in a yak?

Phillip Gentry

Time was when fish had little to fear from kayak anglers unless their scales were colored watermelon green or bronze red. […]

Waiting for the proper soil moisture is more important than getting spring food-plot planting done within a certain time frame.

Soil moisture is No. 1

Jeff Burleson

Plants are simple organisms with basic needs to fuel a laundry list of chemical reactions that sustain life. Sunlight, air and nutrient availability rank high in the cycle of life, and few plants will survive very long when any of these components is lacking. […]

Robert Mixon and Robert Lambert bagged almost 23 pounds of bass to win the Fishers of Men event on Badin Lake last Saturday.

Davidson County team scores big in Badin FOM tourney

Tony Garitta

Robert Mixon of Lexington and Robert Lambert of Denton took advantage of high winds to capture the May 4 Fishers of Men Piedmont Division tournament at Badin Lake, their second victory on the circuit. […]