August 2015 Archives - Page 2 of 6

Despite harvest reductions, South Carolina hunters have plenty of quality bucks to choose from.

South Carolina’s All-Time Biggest Bucks (through 2013 season)

South Carolina’s All-Time Biggest Bucks (through 2013 season) […]

Add Suspendots and SuspenStrips to deep-diving crankbaits to get a little more depth on your casts and retrieves.

Weighting crankbaits

When fishing offshore structure, bass pro Tim Grein often needs his deep-diving crankbaits to break the 20-foot barrier. […]

How individual landowners and hunters plan their harvest goals should take into consideration both does and bucks.

Top deer counties for 2014 season

Terry Madewell

County rankings for the 2014 deer season are compiled by the S.C. Department of Natural Resources in two categories: total harvest and harvest by square mile. The data points hunters to areas that were productive last season and in seasons past. […]

A big jigging spoon is a great bait to rip off the bottom when bass are holding on deep structure.

The ripping technique

Tony Garitta

The technique of “ripping” a spoon requires energy and stamina and has been used by several legendary fishermen to generate reaction bites from bass. […]

Mike Popovich puts the tape on a sand tiger shark that measured almost 8 feet and was caught at night, when serious shark fishermen really like to head to the surf.

Fishermen don’t lure sharks to the shoreline, they catch fish that are already there

Brian Cope

Stan Warren, who founded Requiem Fishing, said his crew does everything it can to avoid fishing around swimmers — including fishing mostly at night — and he emphasized that his anglers are not drawing the sharks into an area, just catching the ones already there. […]

North Carolina and South Carolina hunters have the entire month of September to thin out populations of resident Canada geese.

Discourage geese from setting up in food plots, impoundments

Jeff Burleson

With the deer season just around the corner, this year’s batch of cool-season food plots should be in the planning stage. […]

Planer boards serve a variety of uses, whether free-lining spoons, tiny crankbaits or live bait.

Getting the most from trolling planer boards

Phillip Gentry

Free-lining is a natural presentation of either live or live bait. Rigs can be as simple as a line with a hook on the end. […]

Tiger sharks are common in waters just off South Carolina beaches and are often hooked and landed by surf fishermen.

Fish sharks’ travel corridors

Brian Cope

When fishing for big sharks from the beach, South Carolina anglers have a lot of choices from Little River to Hilton Head Island. […]

Geese

Expanded methods available for North Carolina goose hunters

Jeff Burleson

For hunters looking to heat up their shotgun barrels, fill up the freezer and contribute to conservation and eradication efforts, the resident Canada goose season arrives on Sept. 1. […]

A segment of the movie “The Fugitive” starring Harrison Ford and Tommy Lee Jones was filmed at Cheoah Dam, which has now become known as “Fugitive Dam” after the success of the movie.

Familiar faces, unfamiliar places

Phillip Gentry

The Cheoah Dam is a hydroelectric complex located in Graham and Swain counties. The Cheoah Development consists of a dam and powerhouse, the first of several constructed by the Tallassee Power Company, now owned by Brookfield Smoky Mountain Hydropower. […]