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Several types of cast nets are available for different jobs. For shallow water captures of small baitfish, a small-mesh 6-foot net works well.

Think before casting $$ at net

Sometimes I think cast nets may be more baffling to people than picking the right color and shape for a fishing lure. […]

Streams with heavy cover are the best places to fish during hot weather conditions.

Some like it hot, but trout do not

Robert Satterwhite

In the heat of summer, when mountain streams often are low and clear, trout are less active and spookier than usual. […]

Most bass during July will be 15- to 20-feet deep near steep “breaks” (dropoffs). Breaks covered by stumps will be the top spots.

Get crankes about July bass

David Fritts

A lot of bass fishermen begin to slow down when July approaches, figuring there may be better places to be than on the lake during the hottest months of the summer. […]

Bass normally will school more during summer months and anglers need to have a variety of rods and lures ready to cast at a moment’s notice.

Be ready when bass pop to top

Dustin Wilks

No quicker way exists to load a boat with bass than when they’re schooling on the surface. […]

Mark Smith and Bill “Hillbilly” Martin display part of their winning catch from an April 26 Catfish Anglers Association Neuse River tournament at Fayetteville.

Kemp takes BFL tourney at Kerr

Tony Garitta

William Kemp of Scotland Neck won the May 3 Wal-Mart Bass Fishing League North Carolina Division tournament at Kerr Lake with a five-fish catch totaling 14-09 and banked $4,352. […]

A reciprocal fishing license for the New River applies from the confluence of the New and Little rivers in Grayson County, Va., to the joining of the North and South Forks of the New in Allegheny County.

Cool Running

Tim Mead

Smallmouth bass caught with a fly rod at a mountain stream. Doesn’t get any better than that. […]

The National Park Service sign near the Cape Hatteras Lighthouse bans ORVs, dogs and beach walking by pedestrians.

Keep Out

Bob Goldstein

The National Park Service closed Oregon Inlet beach, the Point at Buxton, and the south beach at Ocracoke to ORVs May 5 to protect nests of sea turtles, shorebirds and waterfowl. […]

A topwater mouse lure (above) or the old reliable Jitterbug are two prime surface lures to use at night.

Through a Bass Darkly

Tim Mead

My son’s buzzbait, unseen but heard, came toward the boat with a gurgling sound one July night at Lake Norman. […]

Caroline Boyd displays her first king mackerel.

Oak Island Fish-Finder

Craig Holt

Capt. John Quattlebaum’s sportfisherman QB’s Sea Witch sliced through a calm sea off Southport last July. […]

Cover: July 2008 (NC)

North Carolina Sportsman

July’s a great month for catching doormat flounder at Kure Beach and other places. […]

Mason Kennington’s banded dove

Dove

Mason Kennington of Kershaw County, SC killed his first banded dove while hunting one of SC’s federal fields in early September 2026. […]

Bass fishing

Bass

I threw in a Rooster Tail and it bit. –Kolton Burnett

First Deer With Daddy

Bag a Buck

Kolbie Hayes Scott of Paxville, SC killed her first deer, a 9-point buck in Clarendon County, SC on Sept. 4, 2026. […]

5-year-old kills first buck

Deer

Five-year-old Kolbie Hayes Scott, 5-years-old, killed her first buck, which was also her first deer, in Clarendon County, SC. […]

Off camera

Bag a Buck

Emma Morris of Timmonsville, SC killed a 9-point buck in Florence County, SC on Sept. 7, 2026. […]