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Probing a pond or lake with a canoe or small boat is a fun way to find and catch May bluegills.

The Merrie Month

Jim Casada

“See that disturbance in the water over there next to the bank?” Jeff Efird asked. “Try to get a cast in there.” […]

A hooked dolphin left in the water often will bring more fish closer to a boat where anglers can cast at them.

Rainbow Warriors

Walt Rhodes

Droning like a Lowcountry air-conditioner in July, the twin diesel engines had an intoxicating effect. […]

When Wateree anglers see a boat that looks like a big spider gliding over the water, they know Babin is seeking crappies. He said some call his multiple-rig setup “pushin’.”

Slab City

Dan Kibler

How good is the crappie fishery at Lake Wateree?

Well, Nick Babin and Brian Davis live in Gilbert at the south side of Lake Murray, and when they want to catch big slab crappie and lots of them, they drive completely around their home lake and head up the road to Lake Wateree, downstream from the town of Great Falls on the Catawba River, forming the border between Fairfield, Lancaster and Kershaw counties. […]

Kevin Meetze of Columbia has discovered the secrets of sheepshead fishing, but it was a process that didn’t happen overnight.

Ghost Bites

Pat Robertson

The morning sun was only a hint in the Eastern sky as Kevin Meetze eased his boat up to the rock jetties at Murrells Inlet and began looking for areas where sheepshead had grazed on the barnacles and mussels on the rocks. […]

Anglers who watch for sea gulls diving on bait often find stripers.

Fish of Dreams

Richard Bernabe

Spring is a time of transition, and all good anglers realize the value of transitions in fishing success — those between day and night, shallow and deep water, cover and open water, etc. […]

Wild turkeys at six southeastern counties will be safe from an early-opening hunting season in 2007.

Early turkey-season proposal rejected

Craig Holt

North Carolina Sportsman Magazine has learned a proposal by a Wildlife Resources commissioner to have a special split-season, early-opening date for 2007 spring wild turkey hunting at six counties in his southeastern district has been rejected by the N.C. Legislative Rules Review Committee — before it met.

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Stocking redfish, such as this one caught and released in Bulls Bay, is one of many ways the federal sportfish Restoration funds may be used.

Secretary Norton Announces Sport Fish and Wildlife Restoration

From News Reports

Interior Secretary Gale A. Norton today announced the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service will distribute more than $523 million in excise taxes paid by America’s recreational shooters, hunters, anglers and boaters, to state fish and wildlife agencies to support fish and wildlife conservation and education programs.
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