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The first Smoky Mountain Fly Fishing Festival is being held Oct 10 in Bryson City.

Bryson City hosting Smoky Mountain Fly Fishing Festival Oct 10

The Smoky Mountain Fly Fishing Festival will take place this Saturday, Oct 10 in Bryson City on the Tuckaseegee River. […]

A paved parking lot and steps leading to the river make this new public fishing area a great addition to Western North Carolina's South Fork New River.

New public fishing area opened in South Fork New River

Brian Cope

North Carolina anglers have a new place to wet a line thanks to the opening of a new public access area in Watauga County on the South Fork New River. […]

Trophy bucks aren’t common in North Carolina’s western mountains, but the early October blackpowder season offers hunters a great chance.

How the Green Mountain monster meet its doom

Craig Holt

Western North Carolina’s mountains can’t carry a large number of whitetail deer because the habitat just doesn’t match the rest of the state, so trophy bucks from the high country aren’t too common. […]

Clayton Brummer is just 16 years old, but the Kansas hunter showed extraordinary patience by passing on his first shot at this 230-inch buck.

Kansas youth downs 230-inch monster buck

Andy Crawford

Sixteen-year-old Clayton Brummer did what few adult hunters would have the self-contol to do: He passed on taking a shot at a huge non-typical that stuck its head out of a milo field milo early in the Kansas hunting season. […]

Finding Norman’s rock reefs

Tim Mead

Numerous websites, including one belonging to the N.C. Wildlife Federation, provide map coordinates, not GPS coordinates, for the Lake Norman artificial rock reefs. […]

Dropper flies can be dynamite on heavily pressured trout waters.

Drop a dropper on trout

Robert Satterwhite

Droppers give fly fishers the advantage of fishing a dry fly and a nymph at the same time, an especially effective measure when it’s not obvious how trout are feeding. […]

Archery is just one topic that will be covered at the outdoor programs at Brevard.

NCWRC holds September outdoor programs in Brevard

NCWRC Release

The N.C. Wildlife Resources Commission is offering several outdoor events and programs in September at its Pisgah Center for Wildlife Education in Transylvania County. […]

New changes for waterfowl dates at Uwharrie

Brian Cope

The North Carolina Wildlife Resource Commission released a statement today informing watefowl hunters of changes to open hunting days in Uwharrie Game Land’s Lewis Millpond waterfowl impoundment in Montgomery County. […]

Crappie like this one are biting minnow-tipped jigs and Beetlespins

Two fishing methods are catching Moss Lake crappie

Brian Cope

Moss Lake is giving up some nice-sized crappie, and in big numbers to anglers who don’t mind starting their day early. David Darby of Light Oak said going early and fishing in 12 to 15 feet of water is the trick to catching a limit of crappie before lunchtime. […]

Lake Norman’s flourishing population of spotted bass, being more oriented to open water, are commonly caught around the lake’s new rock reefs.

Rock around the clock for Lake Norman bass

Tim Mead

At 32,510 surface acres, Lake Norman is the largest impoundment entirely within North Carolina’s borders. Before it was impounded in 1963 the lake floor was cleared, eliminating a lot of potential cover for fish. […]