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Catfish anglers won’t find bigger specimens of fine-tasting channel cats than the ones available at Blewett Falls.

Big Blue Bite

Sunset promised cooling conditions as Randy Willard pulled his truck off a dirt road into what served as a parking lot at the Wildlife Commission ramp downstream from Blewett Falls Dam. […]

A typical Nantahala smallmouth bass will measure between 10 and 17 inches in length, but enough 5- and 6-pounders are caught each spring to keep anglers on the edge of their seats.

Wilderness Smallies

Tim Mead

Would you like to catch smallmouth bass in about as pristine a spot as Tar Heel anglers can find? […]

During May, bass at the Buckhorn pool on the Cape Fear River will hit topwater baits, especially early in the morning.

When Jeffrey Thomas was growing up in the Lee County town of Broadway, there was only one place to go fishing — at the outskirts of town, below the junction of the Deep and Haw Rivers, an old, abandoned dam impounded a section of the Cape Fear River. […]

If a gobbler hangs up, throw him a changeup such as a jake yelp or kee-kee call, either of which may result in him charging your position. Sometimes a decoy will further fire up a challenged tom.

Changeups for Toms

Bruce Ingram

The standard way for spring turkey hunters to go about luring in gobblers is to issue a variety of hen sounds with any number of calling devices. […]

An angler has whipped this cobia and will walk it around to the stern so a mate can gaff the fish.

I Spy Cobia

Mike Marsh

The day began as a Spanish mackerel fishing trip. Donald Lane, captain of the Impulse, a 58-foot Carolina Custom sportfisherman, set out from the Morehead City municipal docks with rods rigged and ready with spoons and planers. […]

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2006 Saltwater Forecast

Craig Holt

Numbers of North Carolina saltwater gamefish important to most anglers continued to improve or hold their own last year, according to the stock status reports of the N.C. Division of Marine Fisheries. […]

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