January 2006 Archives - Page 2 of 3

Roger Lowe of Waynesville is a master of fly creations used by western N.C. mountain folk. He believes the ancient Yellow Hammer (“yaller hammer”) is one of the most effective for catching mountain trout.

Guide ties traditional flies

The Cherokee Indians were the first fly fishers in the mountains, fashioning hooks from chipped stone and deer bones and wrapping the shanks of their hooks with deer hair. […]

Backlashes

Will Navy ever stop being so good to us?

Craig Holt

“Cap’n, I wish you’d stop being so good to me.” — Paul Newman, as “Cool Hand Luke,” to a prison warden. […]

Cover: January 2006 (NC)

North Carolina Sportsman

November 2006 cover […]

The N.C. Division of Marine Fisheries requires anglers with May-October ocean-caught stripers report catches. Anglers may keep two ocean stripers per day of at least 28 inches total length. Before being off-loaded, stripers need a landing tag available at

Big Rock Candy

Walter Taylor

Striper fishing is the most popular winter sport at the Outer Banks. […]

Jerry Simmons hunts scaup at the New River from a fiberglass layout boat.

Bluebill Skies

Mike Marsh

A raw, icy wind rippled the Cordura fabric of an Avery collapsible boat blind. […]

Anglers can find plenty of trout, including some tremendous brown trout, in western S.C. waters.

South Carolina’s Top 5 mountain trout streams

Richard Bernabe

When anglers from other parts of the country consider South Carolina, mountain trout fishing isn’t what immediately comes to mind. […]

Brush piles are good spots to hunt crappie during the winter months and, come spring, will hold a largemouth bass or two.

Brush up on crappie this winter

Davy Hite

By trade and profession, I’m a bass fisherman, but that doesn’t mean bass are the only fish I like to catch. […]

The red drum is probably the most-sought saltwater gamefish from North Carolina to Texas and many states, including South Carolina, have hatcheries to rear and release redfish.

Managing the mighty redfish

Jeff Burleson

The red drum, red fish, or spot-tailed bass is the most-targeted coastal sport fish from North Carolina around the Florida peninsula to the Texas coast. […]

Currents

SCS: the right choice for us

Craig Holt

The first issue of South Carolina Sportsman marks another beginning for Louisiana Publishing — the creation of a third magazine to serve the interests of Southern anglers and hunters. […]

LEFT: Scott Calderone arrowed this buck during the 2004 special hunt at Santee Coastal Reserve.BACKGROUND: Wild pigs and deer are available during the same season at the reserve.

Santee Coastal Reserve has opportunities for hunters to bag deer or wild pigs. Scott Calderone waited patiently in his climbing stand, whining mosquitoes the only sound in the forest except for errant puffs of wind ticking the occasional leaf against its drooping twin. […]