Features from May 2019
Try out these half-dozen bodies of water in the Carolinas for the best striped bass fishing between April and June.- Spring run of big bluefish turns Cape Lookout shoals into a destination not to be missed for topwater sight-fishing and 15- to 20-pound fish.
- The Wateree and Congaree rivers offer miles and miles of opportunities for fishermen to do battle with big catfish and striped bass, especially in late spring.
- As turkey season winds down in the Carolinas, big toms are suddenly at risk, and especially around noon and in the afternoons. These four veteran hunters understand why.
- Changes in Tuckertown Lake’s aquatic vegetation has made frog lures a big part of almost every bass fisherman’s tackle box.
Columns - May 2019
- May is an ideal time to head for a mountain stream to target trout. Here are three steams that are excellent fisheries and excellent places to see scenery.
- Hunters that provide a food source for their deer herd throughout the late spring and summer will benefit when deer hunting season opens in the fall.
- Lipless crankbaits are one of the top lures to use during the largemouth bass spawn in the Carolinas.
- May is an outstanding month for fishing on the Santee Cooper lakes, but the bream fishing is off the charts in popularity and productivity.
- A mayday call is not the only distress call we should familiarize ourselves. Two other distress calls are more commonly used, and they can help save lives and equipment.
- J.D. Desrosiers of Greer, S.C., gives tips and tricks for using his kayak to go hunting for bream beds.
- Learn the true capability topwater baits possess and how their limitless upside allows you to fish them confidently whenever conditions are right.
- This month’s recipe for Parchment paper grilled fish is based on a deep-water ocean bottomfish. Which is available from your favorite fish market.
- A new artificial lure on the shelves and in tackleboxes is doing more, much more, than giving lip service to the process of catching bass.
Outdoor Update - May 2019
- Jonathon Dill of Greenville, S.C. killed a 31-pound gobbler on March 20, 2019 during a morning hunt. The bird had a 12-inch beard and 1 1/4-inch spurs.
Hot Spots - May 2019
- May marks the return of big red drum in a big way to the nearshore waters of North Carolina’s Hatteras Island after the winter’s offshore respite.
- May is the best month to find cobia concentrated in nearshore waters, especially those around Cape Lookout.
- South Carolina’s annual shrimp-baiting season doesn’t open until the fall, but shrimping without bait begins on May 1. May is a great time for deep-hole shrimping.
- The good weather that comes with May also brings excellent flounder fishing to Little River on the North Carolina-South Carolina border.
- May is a special time along many Carolina beaches, and that is especially so along the beaches of Long Bay for the annual run of king mackerel that isn’t duplicated anywhere else in the two Carolinas.
- With the spawn about finished, the bass are recovering and looking to fatten back up on blueback herring.
- Bass fishing on North Carolina’s Tuckertown Lake in May involves two phases: a slow one early in the month and an explosive one later on.
- The best fishing for Lake Rhodhiss stripers takes place in May before the summer recreational traffic breaks loose.
- May is the time of year to catch lots of largemouth bass, including some big ones, on South Carolina’s Lake Wateree, according to angler Dearal Rodgers.
- By May, those South Carolina anglers looking for a cooler full of sheepshead can’t go wrong on a trip to the rock jetties outside Winyah Bay.