April 2010 Archives - Carolina Sportsman

Small automatic chargers like this Deltran Battery Tender can keep almost any sized starting battery ready to go, and pulse chargers like this one from PulseTech can prevent plate sulfation and condition your deep cycle or starting batteries while they keep them hot.

Is your inattention killing your battery?

My truck pulls a travel trailer or a boat much of the year, but there are weeks when it just sits in the garage. […]

Bright-colored baits are a plus in the spring, when you’re trying to make bass bite out of anger as much as out of hunger.

April bass: you can ‘bank’ on them

Because I love to catch bass in deep water, away from the bank, April is a tough month for me. It’s simple: almost all the fish will be shallow this month, no matter where you fish in North Carolina. […]

Scott Hamrick (pictured) and Roger Hoover shared $2,000 for winning won the Norman Winter Team Bass Trail Championship.

Warriors on Water back for 4th year

Tony Garitta

In 2005, three Desert Storm veterans, Hal Abshire, Bob Cunningham, and Greg Lahr, thought of a way of honoring military personnel who had served their country. […]

Rick Croson, captain of the Blue Water Candy 2009 SKA Championship-winning team, puts some strain on a Star Rods Plasma Series Jigging Rod while Phillip Henry of Star Rods points out the strength of the deeply arced bend.

Oh goody! New goodies

Jerry Dilsaver

Ever wondered how the latest in rods, reels or terminal tackle went from being just another great idea to your favorite tackle shop? […]

The most effective method of releasing a trout is to keep it in the water while removing the hook.

Trout: Please, release me, then let me go

Robert Satterwhite

I believe in the merits of catch-and-release, but I’m not a hard-core purist like many Trout Unlimited members. […]

Land managers should cultivate only as much acreage in food plots as they can maintain; a few high-quality acres is better than dozens of acres of lower quality.

Expand your food-plot acreage

Jeff Burleson

Where legal, most deer hunters elect supplemental feeding, usually with corn, over renewable, cultivated food plots. […]

Cover: April 2010 (SC) – Bass

South Carolina Sportsman

Winter is in the past, and now everything is biting from the fresh lakes to the salty ocean. […]

Cover: April 2010 (SC)

South Carolina Sportsman

Winter is in the past, and now everything is biting from the fresh lakes to the salty ocean. […]

April means spawning ‘fun’

Davy Hite

April is an awfully fun time to be a bass fisherman in South Carolina. […]

Capt. John Ward shows off a 29-inch, 8.5-pound spring redfish that was fooled by a Z-Man lure.

‘Z’ not for ‘Zorro’ when lures appear

Jeff Dennis

Capt. John Ward of Affinity Charters positioned his boat near a the mouth of a finger creek, fishing the falling tide. […]

Lumber River redbreasts

Bream

The Lumber River is home to one of the prettiest and feistiest panfish species in the Carolinas – the redbreast sunfish. […]

Offshore mixed bag out of Beaufort Inlet

Features

When many anglers head offshore looking for some hot fishing action, they’re looking for a variety of species known as a mixed bag. […]

Cape Fear River catfishing with Carolina ALL OUT

Catfish

Chris Douglas joins catfish angler Justin Riewhestahl to fish for Cape Fear River blue cats and flatheads, and they catch their share. […]

Little girls, big fish

Catfish

Colt Turner was fishing with his daughters in June when they teamed up to catch a big catfish on the Dan River. […]

Plano Frost 32-quart cooler

NEW PRODUCTS

Plano knows plenty about plastics, so it’s only natural for them to make the high-performance, Frost 32-quart cooler. […]