Inshore Fishing
Dress the part this month
Last December, the mercury hovered right around the 40-degree mark for several days. […]
Statewide NC
Fishing
Wise sportsman’s gifts
Wow, it has been a year already, and it’s time for more gift ideas for those outdoor folks in your lives. Hopefully, you’ll find a few suggestions that will be helpful again. […]
Greener Pastures
Give plots ‘vitamin’ shots
As the final month of the year arrives, rutting activity in the deer herd is dwindling, and a chill looms in the background. Winter foods become important to deer and other wildlife. […]
Hunting
Check (duck) legs for jewelry
The prime days of the duck season will arrive this month; more ducks are harvested in the next few weeks than any other part of the season, as hunters get serious and head to lakes, swamps, marshes, rivers and flooded impoundments filled with corn and millet. […]
Hunting
Get wood duck boxes ready
It may seem early, but wood ducks will soon be nesting again in the swamps and flooded bottomlands of the Carolinas. […]
Inshore Fishing
Rock for Rocks — How to catch striped bass on Badin Lake
For years, Jerry Hill lived and fished — and guided fishermen for striped bass — on Badin Lake. He moved up Rt. 8 from one end of Davidson County to the other two years ago, settling on High Rock Lake, and now he’s doing most of his fishing on High Rock — but not because of proximity. […]
Hunting
Gather reproductive data from does
In most areas in the Carolinas, the primary rut is over by the time December rolls around, and the majority of does are pregnant. […]
Promote
Christmas Rats — Hunting tips for more squirrels
Champ and Curly bounced excitedly around in their pen behind Randy Dunkley’s cozy log cabin on a wooded hillside in the Hurdle Mills community of Person County. […]
Hunting
Fishing
Time to consider changing to LEDs
The lights on your trailer are your boat’s first line of defense against collisions. […]