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Does are more important to bucks than food during the rut. Allowing does to feed unmolested and intercepting bucks on the prowl for does is a good recipe for success as the peak of the rut in North Carolina’s foothills approaches in mid-November.

Rut Research

The pictures on the trail camera were more than just encouraging. To bass pro and hunting guide Matt Arey of Shelby, they were a reward for several years of dedicated work in trophy deer management. […]

Backlashes

Loss of NC streams is politics as usual

Craig Holt

It became clear during the latest judicial appeals processes that tried to halt Mountain Air Development Corporation’s (MADC) destruction of a trout stream on land it owns at Mountain Air Country Club that the group with the deepest pocketbook would win. […]

Nelson Alexander consistently kills big bucks near his York County home, taking care to make sure he’s got all the ‘little things’ covered before and after he climbs his stand.

Little Things, Big Bucks

Bennett Kirkpatrick

South Carolina’s Piedmont is full of deer hunters. Why is it only a gifted few of these gain expert status? […]

Cover: November 2010 (SC)

South Carolina Sportsman

Austin Morrell’s huge 10-point buck is likely the largest ever killed in Dillon County with a bow, and thanks to a number of trail-cam photos, he knew when and where to look for the bruiser. […]

Jay Dougherty of Elloree killed this 210-pound buck early in the season on private land near the upper end of Lake Marion.

Biologist’s news is good for Santee Cooper lakes

Terry Madewell

November is the time where it all comes together for outdoorsmen in the Santee Copper area. The fishing is outstanding for several species, and the rutting activity of whitetail deer reaches a peak early in the month. […]

The author (left) caught this 9½-pound bass in a farm pond near Abbeville this fall.

Don’t forget fall pond-fishing

Davy Hite

Everybody who fishes farm ponds thinks about fishing mostly in the spring, but I don’t want anybody to forget about how good the fishing can be in the fall. […]

Capt. Reed Simmons said that being a successful trout fisherman is just a matter of fishing the right place, at the right time, with the right lure. Sound easy? Could be.

A blueprint for speckled trout success

Jeff Dennis

Capt. Reed Simmons of Charleston has seen plenty of tides ebb and flood during his 26 years as a fishing guide, and he has chased spotted seatrout up and down the Atlantic coast. […]

Stan Gunter and his son, Bradley, won the ‘Mr. Lake Murray’ tournament in late September.

Gunters dominate at Lake Murray

Glenn Corley

The three bass-fishing Gunters had big back-to-back weekends on Lake Murray this past September. […]

Brush Up on Fall Slabs

Pat Robertson

You could say that Brad Taylor was born with a crappie pole in his hand. His grandfather ran a minnow farm, and as far back as memory allows, his family has been fishing for crappie on Lake Murray. […]

Todd Ramsey’s 160-inch record-book archery buck was the product of having rich food plots that kept plenty of deer on his property.

Few Acres Many Deer

Jeff Burleson

South Carolina hunters crave the day when a record-book buck slips into their food plot at daybreak within easy shooting range.

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