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Big-water streams such as the Nantahala River are more productive than smaller streams during the winter.

Winter arrives at high country

Winter comes to the mountains in muted shades of gray, green and brown.

Except for evergreens, trees have been stripped of their leaves, leaving only bare, twiggy branches. It’s a stark and different kind of beauty here in the winter. […]

Winter is a good time to find striped bass at Kerr Lake or Lake Gaston by fishing the same areas that held crankbait bass during the middle of summer.

Try stripers, crappie this winter

David Fritts

December is a great month to do a lot of things, not the least of them being hunting deer, organizing your tackle and cleaning up your boat. […]

Rods, rod cases for three- and four-piece rods, reels, fishing line and, of course, the latest lures make good Christmas gifts for sportsmen.

Fishing for sportsmen’s gifts

Jerry Dilsaver

Last December I wrote a column about Christmas gifts for sportsmen and the response was overwhelming. Wives, family members and girl friends stopped by the Sportsman booth during January and February boat shows to thank me for the suggestions and to ask I be sure to do it again. […]

Jerry Pruitt (left) and Randy Pope of Hickory landed 21.98 pounds of crappie Oct. 5-6 to capture the Cabelas Crappie USA national title at Kentucky Lake.

Tar Heels sweep top 5 at Gaston

Tony Garitta

Patrick Wooten of Wake Forest won the Sept. 29-30 Wal-Mart Bass Fishing League Piedmont Division Super Tournament at Lake Gaston with 29-11 and received $5,741. […]

Crankbaits bounced off isolated logs at creek channel bends while fishing N.C. rivers during December is a good tactic to score a lunker.

Target moving baits in winter

Dustin Wilks

No pleasure boats, no tournaments, not much of anything but you busting bass. That’s the way fishing should be. […]

Outfoxing Fox Squirrels

Mike Marsh

A thawing frost had dampened the oak leaves, quieting the footfalls of a hunter clad in blaze orange who was nearly the same color of the turning trees. […]

Hemby and Booth downed bucks the same day, a week after the sightless Hemby killed an eight-pointer.

His Brother’s Keeper

Craig Holt

Thomas Hemby of Ayden was riding a four-wheeler through the woods and fields of a Pitt County farm June 6, 2005.

At the time, Hemby, 32, was a successful sub-contracter who owned a local house-framing business. Life was good and profitable as the building boom was in full bloom. […]

Andrew Watson, 11, of Oxford shot last year’s top gun buck by a youth, but only after a neighbor calmed his nerves.

Paintball Doves & Granville Deer

Craig Holt

When the Wake County Wildlife Club gave out awards for North Carolina’s top white-tailed bucks of 2006 last March at the Dixie Deer Classic, one of the top eight-pointers belonged to 11-year-old Andrew Watson of Oxford. […]

Oyster-shell collection bins, such as this one at Wrightsville Beach in New Hanover County, are used where shells are collected in amounts too large for can-collection sites to handle.

Rockin’ Oysters

Jerry Dilsaver

It would be a good program with just one of its results, but the North Carolina Division of Marine Fisheries Oyster Shell Recycling Program is a triple winner. […]

Backlashes

Hamilton pushes Camo Coalition

Craig Holt

Richard “Dick” Hamilton, former executive director of the N.C. Wildlife Resources Commission, wasted no time in putting his talents to use for N.C. wildlife after being forced out of the WRC.

Since Oct. 1, he’s been working with the N.C. Wildlife Federation, helping that group form its “Camouflage Coalition.” […]