Sports
Colder weather up north brings ducks to the Pamlico
It was one very snowy and cold Christmas day in the mid 1950s when a local duck hunter invited two inexperienced “wanna-be” waterfowlers to go ...
Fred Bonner, Author at Washington Daily News
Sports
Outdoors with Fred Bonner: Bears, dogs, landowners need some changes
Eastern North Carolina is quickly becoming known throughout the hunting community as the place to be when it comes to large black bears. This isn’t ...
by Fred Bonner, Saturday, December 5, 2015 6:19 pm
Sports
O.C. Bennett Sportsman: Some of the outdoorsmen you’ll never forget
The late O.C. Bennett shows off his favorite bird dog near his home at Vinegar Hill Community near Aurora. He was one of those outdoorsmen ...
by Fred Bonner, Thursday, November 19, 2015 6:42 pm
Sports
Outer Banks in the fall
Surf anglers from virtually all over the world sit up and take notice when they hear the words, “Cape Hatteras is hot this fall.” The ...
by Fred Bonner, Monday, November 9, 2015 6:15 pm
Sports
Modern outdoor sportsmen enter Space Age with technology
It’s been a long time since we charted the oyster beds in the Delaware Bay by basically using a sextant to triangulate our position based ...
by Fred Bonner, Monday, November 2, 2015 4:56 pm
Columns
Chasing wahoo under a black cloud
By FRED BONNER Any time you’re planning an offshore fishing trip, it pays to pay close attention to the weather forecast. We did that last ...
by Fred Bonner, Monday, October 26, 2015 5:32 pm
Sports
Hunters aren’t seeing as many deer
Old timers in the eastern North Carolina area remember very well that we didn’t have many whitetail deer in our part of the country. If ...
by Fred Bonner, Monday, October 19, 2015 12:14 pm
Sports
Small speckled trout delicate but numerous in our waters
Virtually every fishing report that I hear from anglers who specialize in fishing for speckled trout is the same: We caught lots of ‘specs,’ but ...
by Fred Bonner, Monday, October 12, 2015 11:40 am
Sports
What if someone limited you to only one gun?
Pick up most any outdoor magazine in a bookstore and you’ll find more articles and evaluations on the largest array of new guns that I ...
by Fred Bonner, Monday, October 5, 2015 12:40 pm
Sports
Hunting from elevated deer stands can be dangerous
It seems like every year, just before the regular gun season for whitetail deer opens, every hunter sees (and hears) warnings about tree stand safety. ...
by Fred Bonner, Saturday, September 26, 2015 12:44 pm
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