Bass Fishing
Be a weather watcher
There are a lot of good reasons to fish in December, chief among them, most everybody else is deer hunting, and you’ve pretty much got the lake to yourself. […]
December 2014
Bass Fishing
Mister Twister Poc’it Hawg Raiser
A Texas bass angler’s bid to get back to the Bassmaster Classic depended heavily on a soft-plastic creature bait that few, if any, others had in their arsenal when they fished the B.A.S.S. Nation Championship on Nov. 6-8 on the Ouachita River. […]
Hunting
The running shot
The small herd of does burst out of the woods and cut across the soybean field, the howling of the hounds behind them in the swamp. […]
Fishing
Electronics serving in times of need
Search and recovery divers were pretty much on their own back in the early 1980’s; I know because I was one of them. I spent 10 years on the Dallas Fire Department’s dive team and worked from the department’s drag boats before the dive team came to be. […]
Freshwater Fishing
Hooray for the holidays! The fish are biting!
The rapid cooling of the water temperature in December is not a problem for several species of fish on the Santee Cooper lakes. In fact, some guides say it actually does wonders to improve the fishing. […]
Sidebars
Local and long-distance calling
Diving ducks do not decoy as readily or gracefully as puddle ducks, but they will respond to calling. […]
Deer Hunting
Read the weather
From the beginning of deer season until its Jan. 1 close, the weather will vary from scorching, 90-degree days to bone chilling-winter mornings with frozen precipitation all over. […]
Sidebars
How to tackle big-water decoy spreads
For many hunters trying to lure ducks into range on ponds, in swamps or around other small bodies of water, “less is more” when it comes to decoys. […]
Sidebars
ACE Basin is waterfowl hunter’s heaven
A map and history of the ACE Basin is available from the S.C. Department of Natural Resources at 843-844-8957 or online at www.dnr.sc.gov. […]
Deer Hunting
Technology has its advantages
When Native American hunters first scoured the landscape to feed their tribes, the water courses traversing the land were prime places to encounter game animals. […]