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Taking care of your bass boat means cleaning it on a regular basis, which will lead to more efficient use on the water and more bass in your livewell.

A clean boat means bass

Most bass fishermen have fiberglass boats that can be torn up by virtually anything they touch. […]

Blackpowder season is one of the most popular for game lands hunters in the northeastern corner of North Carolina, because hunting pressure is lower than during gun season.

Deer for the Taking

Joseph “Pork Chop” Wiles of Mayock was deer hunting at an N.C. Wildlife Resources Commission game land in northeastern North Carolina last November. […]

Jason Kaufman pays attention to prevailing wind direction, the location of food sources and bedding areas and travel corridors when he starts planning to ambush trophy bucks like this one with his archery equipment.

Wrapped up with a Bow

Craig Holt

Jason Kaufman of Iron Station has been a dedicated bow hunter most of his adult life. […]

Redfish, like this one caught by Lewis Emery, are partial to noisy topwater baits and will blast them in extremely shallow water, creating quite a commotion.

Bald Spots

Craig Holt

North Carolina’s coastal red drum numbers are a monument to nearly a decade of effective management by the N.C. Division of Marine Fisheries and, yes, even the N.C. Marine Fisheries Commission. […]

Guide Inky Davis said that keeping up with the movement of baitfish will keep you on top of the best bass fishing on Santee Cooper this month.

Keep an eye on those baitfish. Bass will be in transition as shad, herring are moving

Terry Madewell

September is a month of change on Marion and Moultrie, the Santee Cooper lakes. To be consistently successful, fishing techniques must change to cope with the transition from summer to fall patterns as the month progresses. […]

Ponds or lakes, if they’re private or have limited public access, can provide fishermen with a tremendous opportunity to catch a trophy bass.

Ponds offer chance for a real trophy

Davy Hite

Not every fisherman is as lucky as I am — blessed with a job that takes me to some of the best lakes in the country to catch largemouth bass. […]

Cleve Yarborough and Chad Gainey won the CATT Summer Final with 16 pounds, four ounces. Their total payday was better than $5,000.

Driggers, McGregor sweep NBC Southern Division

Pat Robertson

Teams in the National Bass Circuit Pro Series’ Southern Division spent the entire year chasing Josh McGregor of Timmonsville and Randall Driggers of Turbeville. […]

Capt. Graham Hegamyer loves to catch redfish in skinny water in his specially-designed flats boat.

Fall fanatics love skinny-water reds

Jeff Dennis

Football, deer hunting and back-to-school activities can dominate the early fall, but targeting redfish in shallow water can provide both the challenge of the hunt and the thrill fooling a fish with an artificial bait. […]

Bream spend much of the summer spawning in relatively shallow water before moving into Santee Cooper’s deeper reaches, where they will spend most of the fall.

Brush Away the Bream

Walt Rhodes

Floating on the featureless surface of Lake Moultrie reminded me of my honeymoon. My bride and I spent several days fishing in Baja, Mexico. […]

‘Corking’ Fall Specks

Dan Kibler

Hunger is a great motivator. The thought of going through the winter with an empty stomach is enough to make even the wariest of speckled trout throw down its guard and slash around at just about anything that happens to float or swim past its nose. […]