April 2012 Archives - Page 3 of 6

Eddie Lackey caught this beautiful Badin Lake largemouth.

Fish the wind

Mike Davis especially loves fishing his dirty-water, power-fishing technique on a windy day. A little wind turns everything on according to him. […]

Cover: April 2012 (NC) – Hunting

North Carolina Sportsman

Great spring days are in store for flounder anglers and turkey hunters. […]

Ralph Davis fooled this red with a jig and Bass Assassin trailer.

Reds:

Dan Kibler

The average Palmetto State redfish begins lifet in late summer as an egg spawned on a deep area of hardbottom near the mouth of a big inlet or bay… […]

Angler’s Fish-N-Mate Powercart will fulfill many uses from skeet shooting, pressure washing and lawn and garden maintenance to carrying large loads of equipment to fishing piers, bridges or the beach for surf fishing. […]

A jig or spinnerbait is an excellent lure to fish around Badin Lake’s shoreline grass in the spring.

Grazin’ in the grass, can you dig it?

Glenn Hudson

Badin Lake is well known for the abundance of canary reed grass, an aquatic grass that grows along much of the lake’s shoreline. […]

For obvious reasons, speckled trout are often referred to as “yellow mouths.”

Gauging trout recovery

Bryan Bowers

Spotted seatrout — “specks” to many coastal anglers — are a favorite target for many light- tackle fisherman; fun to catch and good to eat. […]

Gila Fury Jig

North Carolina Sportsman

Glo Crazy Lure’s new Gila Fury Jig with patented Glo-Stick enables larger strike distances and more opportunities for anglers. […]

Stream bottoms are great spots to run into turkeys in the Piedmont, because their banks are often filled with acorn-producing oak trees.

Prime Piedmont tactics

Bruce Ingram

Tommy Kirby of Willow Oaks Plantation in Rockingham County is on the same page with his boss, Arthur Dick, when it comes to cutting down on the amount of calling a turkey hunter does and paying more attention to location. […]

Sam Jones shows off the kind of rainbow trout that Lake Jocassee regularly produces.

Freshwater Series: Lake Jocassee

Jeff Samsel

Sam Jones doesn’t know why trout relate to structural features that are 100 feet beneath them. More important than “why” they do, though, is knowing “that” they do so and learning which structures attract the most fish any given month.

Jones, who operates Jocassee Charters, has learned those lessons through longevity. He grew up fishing Upstate waters with his dad, has fished Lake Jocassee for 30 years and has guided for the past 10 years. Jones specialized in controlled-depth trolling for trout, and he often targets fish that suspend well above structural features. […]

Floating or ‘fluttering’

Davy Hite

In April across South Carolina, a lot of bass have just spawned, there are still a few fish spawning, and you can even catch a few prespawn bass. […]