January 2015 Archives - Page 3 of 7

With most Lake Monticello bass in deep water during the winter, knowing how to locate them on your boat’s electronics is of paramount importance.

Plug in to the latest in marine electronics

Being a civil engineer for the S.C. Department of Transportation has more than a work impact on Andy Wicker. […]

Prescribed burning of stands of pines is a primary tool for managing wildlife habitat, including quail.

Recipe for quail-habitat management is complicated

John Henry Harrelson, a biologist with the N.C. Wildlife Resources Commission, helps coordinate the Columbus County Quail Co-Op’s habitat-management efforts. […]

Rob Beglin tries to set up a cast away from redfish, and long, lighter rods allow him to make longer casts.

Lighten up, shape up and gain distance

Jeff Burleson

Often, new anglers casting to wintering schools of reds in shallow water will disturb the fish on the first cast by throwing heavily rigs into the middle of the school. […]

This prime quail habitat was created by the excavation of an irrigation pond because the area could not easily be farmed and became overgrown by all kinds of vegetation.

Wastelands are not wasted on quail

Mike Marsh

The excavation of an irrigation pond created some prime quail habitat. The spoil from the pond excavation became a mound at the water’s edge, creating an area that farming equipment cannot easily enter. […]

Johnson Silver Minnows are lures that have caught redfish in all seasons for years.

Find ’em with the gold standard

Jeff Burleson

Finding the schools of winter redfish can be easy much of the time, since fish typically frequent the same flats each season. However, they will move from tributary to tributary or from one end of a flat to another during the course of a few tide sequences. […]

For the best red drum fishing the winter has to offer, seek out creeks with dark bottoms that get a lot of sunlight.

Why go to school in the winter?

Dan Kibler

Lee Paramore, a biologist for the N.C. Division of Marine Fisheries who specializes in red drum, said said they are a schooling fish for a variety of reasons and will school year-round, but they’re not as noticeable as in the winter. […]

Shotguns in the smaller gauges are about all a hunter needs to kill woodcock, a small, fast-flying upland gamebird.

It’s in the bag

Pete Rogers

Like hunters who target different gamebirds and small-game species, woodcock hunters have bag limits and possession limits to think about during the season. […]

A bait-keeper spring allows anglers to rig a soft-plastic bait weedless on a standard jighead.

Making it weedless

Jerry Dilsaver

Guide Allen Jernigan said that many times he gets far-enough up creeks looking for winter drum and speckled trout that he fishes water that features many layover trees, limbs and other potential snags. […]

Only one in 1,000 Canada geese killed in South Carolina carry leg bands, making them highly desired trophies.

Join a real band of brothers

Brian Cope

Killing a banded goose is a thrill to most waterfowlers, and less than one of every 1,000 geese killed in South Carolina is banded. […]

South Carolina’s goose season runs into late February, giving hunters more opportunities to share this view of approaching geese through the door of a portable layout blind.

Better late than never

Brian Cope

South Carolina’s late goose season is longer than any other waterfowl season. The final segments of the season include the Dec. 6 through Jan. 25 time frame — running concurrent with the duck season — then opening again Feb. 8 and closing Feb. 23, giving waterfowlers who chase geese an extended season. […]