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	Four N.C. Anglers to Compete in IGFA Offshore World Championship DANIA BEACH, Fla., USA – Four North Carolina men on two teams will compete in the eighth annual IGFA Offshore World Championship, May 20 – 25, off the southern tip of Mexico’s Baja peninsula at Cabo San Lucas. MORE ...

	HB 1017: Brunswick Menhaden Restrictions, Passes House Committee RALEIGH (April 17) - The House Committee on Environment and Natural Resources met yesterday to hear HB 1017: BRUNSWICK MENHADEN RESTRICTIONS, an act to make it unlawful to take Menhaden or Atlantic Thread Herring with a purse seine net within three nautical miles of the shoreline of Brunswick County from May 1 through October 31 of each year. MORE ...

	Keeping focus on the water Mental focus can make or break your day on the water. MORE ...

	Jarden Corporation Acquires Pure Fishing, Inc. It was announced April 10 that Jarden Corporation (NYSE: JAH) had aquired Pure Fishing, Inc and its brands of Berkley, Fenwick, Abu Garcia, Gulp, Mitchell, Stren, Trilene, Spiderwire and Sevenstrand. MORE ...

	Appalachian Angler Plans Free Fly-fishing Clinic BOONE — The Appalachian Angler will host “Fly for Free,” a free fly-fishing workshop at the Watauga River across from the Angler shop off N.C. 105 and Old Shulls Mill Rd near Boone. MORE ...

	Agencies Clarify Rule for Bait Herring RALEIGH, N.C. - The N.C. Wildlife Resources Commission and the Division of Marine Fisheries want anglers to know they can still use river herring (alewife and blueback herring) for bait as long as those herring are not taken from coastal rivers and sounds. MORE ...

	NMFS Adjusts N.C. Recreational BFT Bag Limit To allow N.C. recreational fishermen to harvest part of the remaining annual bluefin tuna allocation from a spring run of school bluefin tuna off Cape Hatteras, the National Marine Fisheries Service has temporarily adjusted the size and posession limits for bluefin tuna. MORE ...

	Natural Bait Exemption Law Repealed RALEIGH, N.C. - The N.C. Wildlife Resources Commission reminds anglers that effective January 1, 2007 there is no longer a license exemption for fishing with natural bait in their county of residence and that they now must have a fishing license. MORE ...

	Cover Some really big Spanish will make Sheepshead Rock a misnomer this month. MORE ...

	Cover When it comes to crappie fishing, one man's trash can be an angler's treasure. MORE ...

	IGFA Certified Observer Program Training Class Offered in Charleston, S.C. CHARLESTON, S.C. – A training class for the IGFA’s Certified Observer Program (COP) returns to Charleston, Saturday, March 31. MORE ...

	WRC’s book for all trout seasons From Cherokee County in the far western corner of the state to Surry County in the western piedmont, North Carolina has approximately 2,100 miles of designated public trout waters spread over 26 counties. MORE ...