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Coastal Paddling: Loading a Sea Kayak Part I

Most folks think that loading a sea kayak is all about getting everything in, but a mariner understands that “there is a place for everything and everything in its place.”...

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Company Mill Trail: From Carpool to Trail Head in 15 minutes!

It’s a cool fall morning, 58°, and the carpool line is moving well. While dropping my kids at elementary school my thoughts turn to a trail run in Umstead State...

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Barracuda Basics

That was a mini albacore, I said to David. I thought he fought too hard to be a Spanish, he replied. A moment earlier, we watched the foot long false...

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Topwater Drum Flies

He’s on it! I hissed. Keep it moving steady… strip, strip, strip. As usual, I was attempting to coach one of my fishing buddies from the poling platform, as if...

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Roanoke River Striped Bass Fishing

Stripers have arrived in the upper Roanoke River. They are not as numerous or as large on average as they will be later in the season, but there are more...

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