April 2016 Archives - Page 3 of 6

The Labrador Current and Gulf Stream collide off Cape Hatteras, making those offshore waters among the best in the world for a variety of bluewater fishing, including blue marlin.

Hatteras: a cape, a village, an inlet

The village of Hatteras isn’t located at Cape Hatteras, but approximately 12 miles to the southwest at the southern end of Hatteras Island near Hatteras Inlet. It’s an unincorporated village with a population of approximately 500.

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Combine tactics to bag open-field gobblers

Terry Madewell

Steve Drummond loves hunting for open-field gobblers, and is typically successful. But he said that despite his best efforts, gobblers sometimes won’t cooperate. In those cases, he incorporates several of his favorite tactics to get these typically tough gobblers into range. […]

Reports of good concentrations of fish will draw lots of people to an area, meaning great action but some crowded drifts.

Roanoke River striper fishing without boats

Jerry Dilsaver

Fishermen without boats don’t have to miss out on the spring striper run in the Roanoke River. Working with local county and municipal governments, the N.C. Wildlife Resources Commission was awarded several federal grants to construct fishing piers and riverbank parks for fishermen without boats.

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Be ready to use a variety of turkey calls as situations dictate and you’ll stand a better chance of filling a tag.

Be ready to use a variety of calls on gobblers

Terry Madewell

Turkey hunting pros agree that having “go-to” calls is essential and part of each hunter’s unique calling strategy. But they agree that a variety of calls are essential. […]

With the angler in the front deck of a bass boat concentrating on bedding bass on the bank, an angler on the back deck has the rest of a pocket to fish.

Back-of-the-boat bedding bass tactics

Ronnie Moore

Fishing for spawning bass is best from the front of the boat, and while anglers in the back are still competing for a win in a tournament situation, it can be a tough task to deal with. […]

Black crappie have no particular color pattern but plenty of black spots on their sides.

Black crappie and white crappie

Jeff Burleson

For some anglers who target crappie, they are nothing more than crappie or speckled perch.

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Rattling lures work great for bass, crappie anglers

Jeff Burleson

Rattling lures can be deadly on bass and crappie, especially in murky water or when fish otherwise have their eyesight compromised. […]

Lake Waccamaw is the largest of a handful of Carolina bay lakes at 9,000 acres, but no one knows how or why it came into being.

How did Lake Waccamaw come to be?

Chris Burrows

While Lake Waccamaw does have a dam, it existed as a lake long before the spillway was built in 1926 to prevent it from drawing completely down during periods of extreme drought.

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Matthew Outlaw and Meagan Daughtery show off limits of bream and shellcracker from Lake Marion.

Fishing’s tops, no fooling

Terry Madewell

April is the month when almost every species of fish that spawns is in skinny water: largemouth bass, crappie, catfish, stripers, shellcrackers and bream. Stripers are shallow in the sense they are running up the river to spawn and in fact, many are caught in the Pack’s and Elliott’s flats areas adjacent to the river.

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Baits designed to catch bass are made in a rainbow of colors, but you only need six or eight different color combinations you have confidence in to meet most fishing needs.

Time to talk about the best colors for catching bass

David Fritts

I did a few seminars at fishing and outdoor shows this winter, and one question that I heard quite a few times was, “What are the best colors for crankbaits?” […]