Jason A. from North Carolina notes he sees a lot of deer sign near his stand, but since he never sees deer, he feels they are coming through at night. He wonders if planting a plot of clover or soybeans will bring the deer closer to his stand in daylight.
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The ABCs of flounder fishing are easy to recall. They all end in ING. To catch your share of flounder in coastal waters, try drifting, trolling, and gigging (using a fish spear). Here’s how to do it.
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Nathan Johnson from North Carolina writes and asks “Is there really such a thing as a primary scrape during the whitetail rut?”
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Creed Johnson from North Carolina asks our whitetail expert Dr. Dave Samuel, “What causes the growth of non-typical antlers?” Dr. Dave says there are several reasons for this occurrence.
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Before the development of crankbaits, the only recourse bass fishermen had to probe depths of 10 feet or more was to painstakingly drag a plastic worm or heavy jig along the lake bottom or vertically fish with spoons and jigs. Here’s how to use these specialized bass fishing tools.
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Take the family, a canoe, a couple bags of marshmallows, a cooler of food, some good ghost stories, add some water in the form of the New River, combine them and the result is a family canoeing adventure.
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Marty Basch is using the 2,167-mile Appalachian Trail as a rough guideline as he bikes from Maine to Georgia. He is filing weekly reports on Thursday and this is his next to last report. For the entire month of October, rain didn’t come to western North Carolina, but that didn’t stop someone from starting a campfire. From the rough and tumble Blue Ridge Parkway, a challenging 469-mile mountain road through Virginia and North Carolina, the fire became part of the landscape. It became part of his adventure.
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Here are the best 10 mountain bike rides out of the 100 rides Jones reviewed in his book, “Mountain Bike! The Southern Appalachian and Smoky Mountains” from Menasha Ridge Press.
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