Bringing up a fish too quickly is rough on the fish, and if not a keeper, releasing it improperly results in barotrauma, meaning the poor thing is shark bait -- that's where descenders come in.

Conservation efforts and reforestation have allowed the species to rebound in rural northeastern North Carolina, providing a ...

The N.C. Marine Fisheries Commission has chosen preferred management measures for speckled trout fisheries that do not ...

Whether its for the horse lover in your life or the gift for someone who has everything, Outer Banks Forever is offering the gift of symbolic pony adoptions this holiday season.

Human-caused climate change has pumped up peak, pre-landfall Atlantic hurricane wind speeds by an average of 13 to 18 mph in ...

Don't be that angler who waits until the last moment to rig up their equipment and then misses the action -- procure and ...

Within 48 hours, the Cape Hatteras National Seashore superintendent’s prediction came true. Another unoccupied, imperiled home on Rodanthe’s ocean shore toppled into the Atlantic Ocean. Save 50% on ...

In the fall of 1927, G. Albert Lyon, millionaire businessman, gifted inventor, and renowned sportsman was restless and looking for a challenge. It could be almost anything: a new gadget to tinker with ...

A black bear runs along the edge of a cornfield near the Pocosin Lakes National Wildlife Refuge in Tyrrell County. Photo: Dylan Ray First of two parts. The American black bear population is healthy on ...

The 1859 Cape Lookout Lighthouse reaches 163 feet skyward beyond shorebirds hunkered down recently on a jetty across the bay at the Cape Lookout National Seashore visitor center at Shell Point on ...