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Bass will bite in February, but you need to fish slowly, in open water, with light line and small-profile baits.

Pick a clear lake, go slow, fish open water

A lot of fishermen approach February as a good month to go to boat shows and look at all the newest boats and fishing tackle, but some years, you miss out on a lot of good fishing by staying off the lake. […]

Guide Jerry Neely catches February crappie on Lake Wylie by tight-lining jigs or minnows along creek channels.

Get that jig to a Wylie crappie in February

Tony Garitta

Jerry Neely prefers to tight-line for crappie in Lake Wylie during February, and he catches them anywhere from 16 to 25 feet deep. […]

Winter weather doesn’t bother black drum too much, especially in the ICW near Little River, S.C.

Paint Little River black, as in drum

Jeff Burleson

During the dead of winter, anglers can expect a strong inshore bite, specifically in the section of the Atlantic Intracoastal Waterway around Little River, just a few yards south of the North Carolina-South Carolina border. […]

The banana lily provides food and cover to waterfowl throughout the entire year, and establishes itself well in beaver ponds.

This plant is beaver swamp magic for waterfowl

Submitted Story

Banana water lily is the plant that changed my hunting luck way back in 1980. I never really expected the ducks to flock to it like they have in the years since I planted it. It is amazing how many waterfowl it feeds each year, both during and after the waterfowl season. […]

Shorter, wider bow limbs are more rigid than wider, narrow limbs, and they distribute stress better to produce a more-consistent, stable shooting platform.

A crossbow that fills all the bills

Sammy Romano

Slightly more than a year ago, I heard rumblings that Matt McPherson and his engineers at Mission Crossbows were working on a revolutionary design that would set the bar higher for the entire industry. […]

The U.S. Coast Guard is searching for a TowBoatUS captain after his vessel capsized near the Pungo River.

TowBoatUS captain missing after vessel capsizes near Pungo River

From News Reports

The Coast Guard and other agencies are searching for a man in the Pungo River near Hobucken Thursday. […]

Not fly fishing, not bait fishing, spinning is happy medium

Robert Satterwhite

Die-hard fly fishers, some of them, are scornful of bait fishers, portraying them as low-brow fish killers who consume every trout they catch. Bait fishers, some of them, are equally scornful of fly fishers, considering them elitists who catch fish not to eat but to release. […]

Darryl Fox killed this "high-elevation buck" and won the December Bag-A-Buck contest.

Weaverville hunter kills trophy buck, wins December Bag-A-Buck

Dan Kibler

Darryl Fox of Weaverville, N.C., had no idea he was going to kill the biggest buck of his life last fall. A teacher and baseball coach at North Buncombe High School, he didn’t get to do everything he usually does leading up to deer season, or even get in the woods during archery season, because of the sickness and death of his father last year. […]

A crappie rig for winter fishing

Terry Madewell

Guide Maynard Edwards has a unique rig he’s developed for wintertime crappie fishing, enabling him to fish near the bottom and suspended fish at the same time. […]

Don’t put away crankbaits that work in deeper water when the first big wave of spawning bass move in early, because they often stay in relatively deep water.

Catch giants spawning first

Jeff Burleson

When P.H. Flanagan of Manning, S.C., caught the state record largemouth bass out of Lake Marion in 1949, he might never have dreamed that his 16-pound; 2-ounce beast would still reign as the biggest bass ever caught in the Palmetto State. But Santee Cooper is known for its big stringers of healthy bass, as are many other reservoirs scattered around the Carolinas. […]