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Feds won’t go through with bottom-fishing closure

The South Atlantic Fishery Management Council voted unanimously at its Dec. 6-10 meeting in New Bern, N.C., to eliminate the 5,000 or so square miles of ocean that was scheduled to be closed to all bottom-fishing, in part because of a promising report about the status red snapper. […]

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Salty Stripers: Inside & Out

For the past five years, North Carolina fishermen have wondered if this could be the season when everything falls into place, when the striper fishing that marked the winter of 2004-2005 makes a repeat visit. […]

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Christmas Rats

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. […]