August 2010 Archives - Page 3 of 4

Largemouth bass are a species that the SCDNR manages for on almost all of its smaller lakes. Along with bluegill, shellcrackers and channel catfish, they rank high on fishermen’s wish lists.

Public Lakes = Summer Fun

Big things really do come in small packages — sometimes. Any fisherman who doubts that needs only to look at the S.C. Department of Natural Resources’ “State Managed Lakes” program. […]

Sizzlin’ Stripers

Phillip Gentry

Summer is here, and the fishing is hot. Everything is hot. The air is hot. The water is hot. Stand on the open deck of a boat at mid-day and pretty soon, you’ll be hot too. […]

Long Rods for Reds

Bryan Bowers

Early on a pleasant, late-summer morning, Capt. Tyler Gault and his daughter, Sherri Hightower, left a grocery-store parking lot on Ladies Island. […]

Currents

A bream by any name is still No. 1

Dan Kibler

Fishermen know them by all kinds of different nicknames: bream, redbellies, shellcrackers, sun perch, coppernose. […]

Channel catfish are surprisingly underfished at High Rock, where many anglers are more concerned with largemouth bass and crappie, which are two of the excellent fisheries the lake boasts.

Channel Your Efforts

Tony Garitta

Lexington’s Charlie Kingen has fished for about every species that swims in High Rock Lake. […]

Cover: August 2010 (NC)

North Carolina Sportsman

Saltwater action is still great, and many outdoorsmen are beginning to think about deer season. What a month! […]

Cover: August 2010 (NC) – Hunting

North Carolina Sportsman

Saltwater action is still great, and many outdoorsmen are beginning to think about deer season. What a month! […]

A big boar is a fine trophy anytime, but he’s most easily killed before hunting pressure gives him reason to be more careful than usual.

Horns and Hogs

Dan Kibler

As the Aug. 15 opening of the Lowcountry deer season approaches, it’s not surprising that a lot of hunters go hog wild getting ready for those first few days in the tree stand. […]

Rob Alderman shows off the kind of fish — a bull red — that’s available for kayak-bound anglers in the Atlantic Ocean outside of Outer Banks inlets.

Matt Landrum get to work and play at the same time. Standing in a parking area at the base of the Mann’s Harbor Bridge, surrounded by vehicles carrying colorful kayaks, Landrum prepared to join a small armada of paddlers heading out on a beautiful morning. […]

Hot weather is like a green light for amberjacks to cruise inshore reefs and wrecks — to the point that fishermen targeting other species will go elsewhere to avoid having their tackle abused.

Amped A.J. Action

Mike Marsh

Capt. Jot Owens checked the wind before ever setting foot on the dock. All the flags were hanging limp, and the lines extending up the aluminum masts of sailboats were silenced of their nearly incessant summertime clanging. […]