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Statewide NC
Fishing
Clean your boat, then go to a show
January isn’t the greatest month to be fishing or hunting in the Carolinas. It’s a little early for good bass and crappie fishing, and deer season has either ended or it’s been going on so long, you’re almost tired of hunting. […]
Hunting
Lasergrips help beginning handgunners
The letter was just one more of hundreds of e-mails I get each year asking about classes: […]
Fishing
Practice makes perfect fly casts
Maybe you consider wading through ice-cold mountain streams in January a euphemism for acute hyperthermia. You might also think casting for redfish on some windy inshore flat in winter is a precursor for walking pneumonia. […]
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Spottails Aplenty
Capt. J.R. Waits, using an emphatic-but-hushed tone, commanded readiness and stillness.Quick movements easily spook winter schools of redfish, which have hundreds of cautious eyes watching for danger in clear, shallow water. […]
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More Bang for Your Duck
Standing in ankle-miring mud, I felt about as sturdy as the standing-dead timber that surrounded me. The swamp was a perfect duck hole. […]
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Birdies Galore
The first thing you notice driving along the entrance road to Maidendown Bay Gun and Golf Hunting Preserve is the flooded land on both sides of the entrance way. […]
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Quail Corners
When Jackie McCaskill was a youngster growing up in Camden, his dad would come home from bird hunting and leave the quail he and his buddy had shot for Jackie to clean. […]
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Fiddling Around
Driving to the boat ramp in fog as thick as she-crab soup, I thought I might be an idiot. […]
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Warm Up to Trout
It’s easy to love fly fishing for trout in the spring and summer. […]