July 2014 Archives - Carolina Sportsman

Guide Matt Frazier travels often from the Foothills to fish the shallows around Fort Fisher in his kayak.

Call it the “kayak coast”

North Carolina’s coastal waters provide a perfect kayak and canoe angling environment, if you know where to go. […]

Bluegill will gather in areas where mayflies are hatching, providing excellent fishing opportunities.

Do the mayfly dance

I love to fish for bass at night this month, but when I do fish during the daytime, there’s one thing I really look for and pay attention to, and that’s mayflies. […]

A big, bulky worm like this 10-inch Culprit is a great bottom-bumping weapon for summer bass.

Find current, find bass

Dustin Wilks

July is not the time to “camp out” on a spot hoping fish will bite. You need to be fishing were they are biting, and that means moving water. […]

When Bassmaster Elite Series phenom Brandon Palaniuk needs a lure that crashes into cover and provokes reaction strikes, he turns to the Arashi Rattling Square line of lures.

Storm Arashi Rattling Square 3 and Square 5

Don Shoopman

After a day of prefishing in late May for a Bassmaster Open on Tennessee’s Douglas Lake, one of the tour’s up-and-coming bass pros was eager to talk about a crankbait he used on his way to finishing 14th this year in this year’s Bassmaster Classic. […]

It once was expensive and cumbersome to test rifle ballistics, but the digital age has made the use of chronographs very affordable.

The ProChrono Digital chronograph

Gordon Hutchinson

I’ve written about the “wildcatting” era in the early 1950s when the U.S. economy was booming in the years coming out of World War II and then the Korean War. […]

Are you ready for an on-the-water emergency? A floating ditch bag can hold everything you need to call and wait for help.

EPIRB plus PLB equals SOS

Allan Tarvid

Standing in ankle-deep water on deck while too far from the shore to see it? Congratulations: You are behind a marine-grade 8 ball. […]

In July, Santee’s fishing is hot, but many anglers are no-shows

Terry Madewell

Fishing is as hot as the summer sun in July, but the fishing action in terms of angler participation seems to slack off a bit.

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Billy Garner’s jiggerpoling technique catches plenty of Edisto River largemouth bass, and his wood-strip boats are perfect vessels for that style of fishing.

A vote for wooden boats

Brian Cope

“You can do anything out of an aluminum boat or fiberglass boat that you can do from a wooden boat,” said Billy Garner of Ridgeville, “but the nostalgia anda beauty of a wooden boat are what attract most people to strip boats.” […]

Wes Barbour catches plenty of speckled trout along spoil islands, created by a dredging the Cape Fear River shipping channel.

Spoil island specks

Craig Holt

It seems odd to find spotted seatrout 10 miles north of the mouth of the Cape River and approximately 3 miles inland from the Atlantic Ocean, but that’s possible near Carolina Beach. […]

Redbreast sunfish seem to be recovering on the Edisto River after a few down years, according to fishermen and the SCDNR.

Redbreast comeback in full swing

Brian Cope

The S.C. Department of Natural Resources stocks redbreast sunfish in several rivers, including the Edisto, which has been stocked annually since 1995. […]