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MINOX Compact Flashlight

At less than 4 inches long and weighing only 2.6 ounces, the new MINOX CFL 1 Compact Flashlight is incredibly easy-to-carry, powerfully bright and fully waterproof. […]

Truck Stencils

North Carolina Sportsman

An avid hunter has developed a way to paint a vehicle camouflage to help reduce the ability of game spotting it and getting spooked off. […]

Dielectric grease helps keep plug and socket contacts free of corrosion.

Plug and play beats plug and pray

Allan Tarvid

Bad connections can cause your electronics to do things that are science-fiction strange. […]

Fishermen have been using some of the same flies to catch trout in North Carolina streams for hundreds of years.

Traditional flies will still catch trout

Robert Satterwhite

Long before the first settlers arrived in Western North Carolina mountains, and long before “gentlemen” fly fishers discovered the fine trout waters of the Southern Appalachians, the Cherokee were using flies to catch trout, not for sport, but for food. […]

Trail cameras set up to snoop on bucks feeding around agricultural food sources can give hunters or land managers a leg up on knowing what their herd looks like.

Get to know all your ‘bachelors’

Jeff Burleson

Preseason scouting is essential when determining the quality and abundance of deer on your land. Since May, bucks have been growing their headgear, brewing individualism in the herd. […]

Line, line everywhere. What’s a fisherman to do? Learn the properties and applications of each type and choose the right tool for the fishing job at hand.

Toeing the line is fishing necessity

Jerry Dilsaver

Mono, braid, superbraid, fluoro, super cast, abrasion resistant, visibility, stretch, diameter — are these words you hear and read in ads for fishing line that you don’t really understand? […]

When you’re catching fish on big crankbaits, all of your tackle needs to be perfectly matched to catch as close to 100 percent of the fish you hook as possible: rod, reel, line, bait and hooks.

Time to get all your ducks in a row

David Fritts

August is a lot of things to a lot of fishermen, but to me as a bass fisherman, it’s the month when you’ve got to have your ducks in a row. […]

Todd Walters of Greensboro won the FLW Bass Fishing League tournament on High Rock Lake in mid-June with a 22-8 catch that featured these two nice bass.

Piers pay off for Walters at High Rock

Tony Garitta

Greensboro’s Todd Walters targeted flat piers to beat his fishing peers at the June 19 FLW Bass Fishing League North Carolina Division tournament on sun-baked High Rock Lake. […]

During the late summer and early fall, thunderstorms with high winds can cause whitetails to take to the woods seeking out leaf snags blown to the ground. Usually there are premature clusters of acorns on the leafy debris.

Deer Dynamics: Hard Mast

Tommy Kirkland

A white-tailed buck leaves his bedding site in a stand of small pines. Instead of heading to the clover plot, he scales up a small ridge to seek out what is beneath the trees. […]

Late-summer or early-fall bluefish can weigh anywhere from one to five or six pounds.

Singing the Blues

Mike Marsh

David Franklin of Carolina Beach was heading out of Masonboro Inlet for an evening of fishing for speckled trout, red drum, flounder — or anything else that would bite. […]