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Caveny promoted to head of NCWRC’s Enforcement Division

RALEIGH – Dale Caveny, a 25-year veteran wildlife enforcement officer, has been promoted to the top wildlife enforcement post in North Carolina.
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Events & Announcements

Bills in front of legislature could further sidetrack proposed hunting regulation changes

Craig Holt

Some changes to hunting regulations most sportsmen thought would be in place for the 2010-11 seasons could be held up again during the current legislative session.
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Col. Kenneth Everhart says he's looking forward to trading his tan-and-green uniform for camouflage and a carpenter's belt when he retires as head of the N.C. Wildlife Commission's Division of Enforcement on July 1. He plans to voulnteer for Habitat for Humanity and do plenty of hunting and fishing.

Top wildlife cop steps down

From News Reports

RALEIGH– Col. Kenneth Everhart, the ranking officer for the Division of Law Enforcement with the North Carolina Wildlife Resources Commission, has announced his retirement, effective July 1.

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Crappie will feed more at night, and in shallower water, on full-moon summer nights.

Carolina crappie easy to catch on full-moon nights

Jeff Burleson

Crappie fishing is almost always better with the light as low as possible. […]

Ben Camarena narrowly won the SouthCarolina.com turkey photo contest with 44 percent of the votes cast.

‘Shortcake69’ wins SouthCarolinaSportsman.com turkey photo contest, ‘Smokin Fast Eddie’ wins top vid

South Carolina Sportsman

Ben Camarena and James Scruggs were named the winners of the 2010 SouthCarolinaSportsman.com turkey photo and video contest, which ended last Thursday (May 27). […]

Little Cataloochee Creek is a beautiful trout stream in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park.

No trout dinner, but a wonderful day

Robert Satterwhite

Hunkered under the wide limbs of a huge spruce, I waited out an early summer rainstorm, a hard, pounding, gully-washer kind of rain. […]

Monitoring the number of “poor-bob-white” calls from cock birds during the spring mating season can give land managers a chance to document changes in the local population — up or down.

Call counts are critical in spring

Jeff Burleson

Quail hunters put their guns and blaze-orange shell vests away better than three months ago for a long period of inactivity. […]

This Garmin plotter screen shows bad weather stretched across southern Florida.

Put a 12-volt meteorologist in your boat

Allan Tarvid

Weather can kill people in boats and be downright sneaky while doing it. When fishing Lake Tawakoni in East Texas, for instance, I remember how blue northers would slide by just clear of the west side of the lake, like they were going to miss us, and then circle around to come north right over the dam and hit the lake. […]

Terry James of Wadesboro flipped bushes to win the Bassmaster Weekend Series tournament on High Rock Lake in early April.

James big winner at High Rock Lake

Tony Garitta

Wadesboro’s Terry James probed the bushes at High Rock Lake with a crawdad-colored Shooter jig to win the April 10 Bassmaster Weekend Series event. […]

Carolina rig is the best for live-bait fishing

Jerry Dilsaver

Many fishermen prefer to use live baits. That’s stating the obvious about as bluntly and simply as possible. […]