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Bass Fishing

Jerkbaits: not just for spring

Davy Hite

When you think of baits that bass fishermen turn to in the fall, you think of moving baits like crankbaits and spinnerbaits. A lot of people overlook a hard jerkbait, because everybody thinks about fishing them in late winter and early spring. If you think about it, late October, November and December can fish a lot like late winter and early spring, with baitfish relatively shallow and the water relatively clear. […]

Columns

The new Matrix Monster

Don Shoopman

Chas Champagne and charter boat captain Ty Hibbs, both Louisianians, were having a ball this summer catching jack crevalle and the occasional large speckled trout off the coast of Florida.

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Deer of the Year

Minor league pitcher is Bag-a-Buck winner

Dan Kibler

All in all, it’s been a great year for 23-year-old Hunter Harvey of Catawba, N.C.

The son of retired major-league pitcher Bryan Harvey, he began the 2018 baseball season with the Baltimore Orioles before spending most of the season with the O’s Class AA farm club in Bowie, Md. […]

Featured

How to net a fish the right way

Brian Cope

Netting a fish is an important part of fishing, and many folks don’t put a lot of thought into how to do it properly. But many of those same folks also do it wrong, and doing it wrong results in losing fish. […]

Deer Hunting

Island delights

Jeff Burleson

Rivers and streams along the coastal plain and in the larger watersheds of the Piedmont and Midlands areas will have high hills within the river corridors, and these hills don’t always flood when everything else in the area is inundated.  […]