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Pole Dance — Ease up on Topsail Beach’s shallow-water red drum for great fishing opportunities March 01 at 7:00 am Capt. Lee Parsons does most of his fishing along North Carolina’s coast from a large, center-console boat, but when he pulled up to the Turkey Creek boating access area near Holly Ridge in Onslow County, he backed a 21-foot, flat-bottomed skiff down the ramp. “You can’t launch anything that takes much water here,” he said, “but this skiff draws only 6 inches of water, which makes it ideal for poking around with a pole.” |
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Rub-a-dub drum March 01 at 7:00 am Using a rubber net to land red drum helps prevent injury to the fish and saves fishing time. Other important pieces of gear include a mushroom anchor and a carbon-fiber push pole. |
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Top o’ the day March 01 at 7:00 am At times, red drum will go crazy for topwater lures. This is especially true in the shallow marshes of North Topsail Beach. |
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Bounce the bottom for bonus flounder March 01 at 7:00 am Flounder are often found in the same, shallow areas where red drum abound, and it is not unusual for these fine-dining fish to strike the same soft-plastic lures that fishermen use to catch red drum. |
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State planning to deal with 605 acres of hydrilla in Lake Waccamaw February 18 at 12:00 pm State officials are putting together a plan to deal with the discovery of hydrilla at Lake Waccamaw, a 9,000-acre natural lake in Columbus County. Toby Hall, superintendent of Lake Waccamaw State Park, said that residents discovered the plant last year and reported the aquatic vegetation. “Concerned residents saw what appeared to be a non-native aquatic weed,” Hall said. “This past fall, we had more concerns and Rob Emens investigated them.” Emens, aquatic weed control program manager for the N.C. Department of Environmental and Natural Resources, is concerned that the state has never dealt with the aquatic vegetation in a natural lake and doesn’t want it to spread to any of the other ones in Southeastern North Carolina. |
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Wrightsville Beach's Crystal Pier will re-open this spring after rebuild February 15 at 7:00 am Battered by a spate of hurricanes, Wrightsville Beach’s Crystal Pier was in a dreadful state — but still standing. An engineering report last year found the iconic structure unsafe, leaving two options: the pier would have to be rebuilt or torn down and hauled away. Anglers and those who enjoy dining while overlooking the Atlantic Ocean breathed sighs of relief when the owner of the Oceanic restaurant decided to replace the old pier with a new one. According to Mindy Stroupe, corporate communications manager for LM Restaurants — which owns the Oceanic restaurant adjoining Crystal Pier — said that Lou Moshakos, the company’s owner and president, will fund construction out of his own pocket. |
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Farmers Manage Deer will try to put hunters together with landowners who have deer problems February 13 at 10:46 am Many farmers in Southeastern North Carolina have trouble with high deer numbers, and many hunters in this same region have trouble finding places to hunt deer. Thanks to a new program, Farmers Manage Deer, that has changed dramatically for the better. The program, which will attempt to match landowners who need their deer herds thinned with hunters who need a place to hunt, was introduced on Jan. 22 to interested farmers at the Powell Melvin Agriculture Extension Center in Elizabethtown, and other meetings are scheduled for Jacksonville, Rocky Mount and Raleigh — at the Dixie Deer Classic. |
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Swamp Busters: Running raccoons is some of the most fun North Carolina hunters can have after dark February 01 at 7:00 am The meeting took place at a travel center in Rocky Point, located just off I-40 at the NC 210 exit. Pickups parked side by side, David MacCallum, Vernon Eakins and Mike Milam walked to the counter in hip booats to buy snacks and soft drinks. Wearing a white helmet with a headlamp, MacCallum looked like a coal miner, but the black footprints of a raccoon stenciled on his hard hat told a different story. Darkness had fallen a few minutes earlie, and it was time to hunt raccoons. “This is one of our prime gathering spots,” said MacCallum, a 36-year-old landscaper who lives in Rocky Point. “We travel extensively to hunt, but this spot has plenty of parking, so we meet here when we are hunting close to home.” |
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Carry your quarry out February 01 at 7:00 am Carrying a raccoon or two out of the swamp is not as easy as placing the animal in the pocket of your game vest. |
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Raccoon-hunting equipment, modern and old school February 01 at 7:00 am David MacCallum uses a GPS tracking collar to keep tabs on his dog’s progress during a raccoon hunt. |
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Don’t get swamped February 01 at 7:00 am Raccoon hunters must contend with dense swamp vegetation, wet ground, ditches and creeks. They wear cloth-faced hip boots to help deflect briars and enable them to walk through shallow water. |
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Swans by water — Tips for hunting tundra swans over waterfowl impoundments January 01 at 7:00 am The tundra swan is the largest waterfowl species hunted in North Carolina. In bygone years, traditional hunts included decoying them on the water or sneaking up on them in a boat, but modern agriculture changed all that. Now, swans are primarily hunted in fields of winter wheat or soybean stubble. Nathan Garrett, who guides swan hunters, has taken hunting the big birds to a different level, as well as to a different playing field. Now 18, he won the title of World Champion Swan Caller in the youth category in 2010 and became one of the youngest competitors to qualify and compete in the World Duck Calling Championships in Stuttgart, Ark., in 2011. |
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