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. […]

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. […]

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. […]

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. […]