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Cover: March 2017

Deer season is in the rearview mirror, but there’s plenty of turkey hunting action to which to look forward. And we’ve got all the information you need to tag that longbeard. […]

LiveTarget’s Swimbait Series threadfin shad

LiveTarget, with its industry-leading designs and award-winning artificial lures, has added to its growing family with soft-plastic swimbaits that — even in their earliest stages of design — fool the forage fish they resemble so closely. […]

Elite Ti units can use this TotalScan Skimmer transducer to provide CHIRP sonar and picture-like sonar views from StructureScan HD’s SideScan and DownScan sonar. It plugs right into the displays; no extra black box is required.

Serious electronics can be affordable

Allan Tarvid

Unfortunately for our wallets, we can’t avoid some cost increases in electronics. They stem from new features appearing in each product generation that require more computer power and better screens. […]

Bass pro Marty Stone said moving baits like this vibrating jig will catch more February bass than baits that sit on the bottom.

For the best in February bass, follow these five tips

Dan Kibler

Many bass anglers get a serious case of cabin fever in February. But that’s okay, because they can catch plenty of bass this time of year, especially with these tips. […]

Warm water from the Sutton Power Plant puts largemouth bass in a spring frame of mind throughout the winter.

Warm Sutton Lake provides winter change of pace

Jerry Dilsaver

Sutton Lake is a winter fishing oasis, an 1,100-acre cooling resevoir for Duke Energy’s L.V. Sutton Power Plant near Wilmington, N.C., Sutton remains warm through the winter, with February water temperatures usually in the 70s or low 80s, which gives a summertime feel to fishing, with fish active in the warm water. […]

Capt. Ponytail, Rod Thomas, will be one of the speakers at the Triad Saltwater Anglers fishing school in Winston-Salem.

Fishing school scheduled for Winston-Salem March 18

Carolina Sportsman

If you live in North Carolina’s Piedmont, love fishing and have been looking for ways to catch more fish, you don’t have to travel very far. […]

Two consecutive years of falling flounder numbers has lead to a reduction in flounder limits for N.C. anglers.

Flounder limit reduced to four because of overfishing

Carolina Sportsman

A major reduction is coming to the recreational flounder bag limit in North Carolina. Starting March 1, anglers may only take four fish per person, per day, down from six, because federal fisheries managers decided that summer flounder are being overfished. […]

A variety of hunter skills will be assessed during the 40th Annual Youth Hunter Educations Skills Tournaments to be held in March.

40th Youth Hunter Education Skills Tournament held in March

NCWRC Release

The N.C. Wildlife Resources Commission has set the schedule for the 40th annual Youth Hunter Education Skills Tournaments (YHEST). More than 4,000 students will compete in events including shotgun, archery, rifle, orienteering and a written hunting skills exam. […]

The 2017 striped bass harvest season will run from March 1 through Apr. 30 in the Roanoke River Management Area.

2017 Roanoke River Management Area striped bass season opens March 1

NCWRC Release

The N.C. Wildlife Resources Commission will open the entire Roanoke River Management Area to striped bass harvest from March 1 through April 30, unless closed or extended through proclamation. […]

Choosing the proper arrow for your hunting setup is an involved process as this chart shows.

Give yourself the shaft

Sammy Romano

With all of the annual hype and focus on the latest and greatest compound bows, the arrows they shoot are often an afterthought. In reality, the arrow is just as important, if not more, than the bow it is shot from. […]