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Once you locate fish in an area, working slowly with a jig can produce some great catches.

Keep it simple in winter

With all the fancy fishing items we have available today, sometimes it is best to get back to basics for winter fishing. […]

Cold weather won’t slow down the bite, even though it may slow down all but the heartiest fishermen.

Cold-weather crappie, catfish are a challege on Santee lakes

David Sweat

Capt. Steve Sexton is widely known for some of his oceangoing feats, but for fishermen who frequent the Santee Cooper lakes, he is better known for the tactics he uses to catch and — and often release — catfish, crappie and bream. […]

MotorGuide R3

North Carolina Sportsman

The new R3 trolling motor from MotorGuide is the perfect choice for the angler seeking a versatile and high-quality trolling motor at a very reasonable price. […]

The Gameplan: Trolling

Phillip Gentry

Trading Friday night lights for Saturday morning bites seems to have agreed with Dan Utley. […]

The author and Don Houck of Belfast Hunt Club admire a 285-pound hog killed last week. Although deer season ends on Jan 1, wild hogs allow big game hunters to extend their season indefinitely.

End of deer season is no reason to quit hunting big game

Phillip Gentry

Don Houck and I crouched just around the corner of the food plot and peered into the pre-dawn darkness. The full moon and high-powered optics allowed the two of us to scan the far end of the food plot in search of our quarry. […]

A handful of quail for the frying pan is the tasty object of an upland excursion behind a pointer or setter.

Quail of Iredell

Craig Holt

Nothing has hammered N.C.’s native northern bobwhite quail more than disappearing small family farms and clean-farming practices at mega-farms. […]

Michael Rogers’ 11-point Oconee County buck will rank in the top 100 all-time in South Carolina.

Late to his stand, Fair Play hunter still scores on huge buck

Scott Keepfer

Michael Rogers typically is settled into his deer stand well before daybreak, so he wasn’t feeling too optimistic about his chances for success on Dec. 5 when he had to drop his granddaughter off at school before hitting the woods. […]

The US Fish and Wildlife Service has earmarked $30 million to add acreage to wildlife refuges and expanding public waterfowl hunting programs.

USFWS wants to expand refuges and waterfowl hunting programs

Craig Holt

One of the most important requirements for having healthy numbers of ducks and geese each spring and fall is suitable waterfowl habitat – areas like the prairie pothole region of the upper Midwest and Canada where waterfowl find sufficient water, food and shelter to nest, obtain food and raise their young each spring. […]

South Carolina duck season is still in full swing, and woodcock season runs all month.

Quacks and Timberdoodles — How to make the most of your late-season duck and woodcock hunts

John Gribb

By January, the easy bird hunting is long past, unless a plantation-owning friend invites you for a quail hunt. Aside from plantation or shooting-preserve quail, however, other wild birds are legal game this month.

Duck season is still in full swing, and woodcock season runs all month.

It is an understatement to say that most South Carolina bird hunters do not focus on woodcock, but hunters with dogs — especially transplanted Yankees — love them. Woodcock are a favorite of bird dogs because they are easy. Put your dogs in good woodcock cover, and they will find the birds. Woodcock are easy to smell, easy to point and flush, and easy to carry on a retrieve. […]