July 2015 Archives - Page 2 of 6

A community live-bait tank is an unusual feature on Ocean Crest Pier.

OCP has survived coastal troubles through the years

Ocean Crest Pier was one of North Carolina’s last-built ocean fishing platforms, with construction finished in 1968 by Warren Calloway, a World War II veteran. […]

Grazing cattle can do plenty of damage to important wildlife habitat like stream corridors.

Exclude cattle from woodlots and riparian corridors

Jeff Burleson

The Carolinas may not be considered top cattle-producing states like Texas, Nebraska and Kansas, but the 1.2 million head of cattle roaming the Carolinas can have a dramatic effect on wildlife habitat. […]

Fishermen can keep only two blue catfish longer than 32 inches — like this one caught by guide Allen Spence — per day on the Santee Cooper lakes and river system.

New catfish regs are in effect

Terry Madewell

The S.C. General Assembly passed a bill last year that took effect on April 1, changing how blue catfish in the Santee Cooper lakes are managed. […]

Summer is a great and important time to reduce local populations of feral hogs.

Fire up feral hog-trapping efforts

Jeff Burleson

The feral hog explosion continues, and for landowners in the Carolinas, swine invasion is far less than divine. […]

North Carolina and South Carolina manage flounder with different creel limits and minimum sizes.

Changing regulations

Jerry Dilsaver

Many bordering states have some sort of reciprocal agreement for fishermen plying border waters, but North Carolina and South Carolina do not, possibly because of the significant differences in the way several species are regulated. […]

Whitey Outlaw shows off a mixed stringer of blue and channel cats caught in the Congaree River on catalpa worms.

The Congaree catfish connection

Terry Madewell

In the extreme upper end of Lake Marion, above where the convergence of the Congaree and Wateree rivers to form the Santee River, Whitey Outlaw from St. Matthews regularly mauls catfish in the Congaree. […]

The Cooper River downstream from Lake Moultrie has a great trophy fishery for blue catfish.

Cooper River cats

Terry Madewell

Great fishing for catfish is not confined to the Santee Cooper lakes and the Diversion Canal; there’s outstanding fishing in the Cooper River below Lake Moultrie. […]

Most old drum caught under popping corks wind up with the hook in the corner of their mouths, not deep in their throats.

Popping cork rig is better conservation measure

Jeff Burleson

Over the past 20 years, the old drum fishery in the Pamlico Sound has grown to epic proportions. […]

Guide Joel Richardson fishes around one of Randleman Reservoir’s many laydown trees that have been cut and cabled to their stumps.

Find Randleman’s bass hotels

Craig Holt

Fishermen who once fished flooded trees on either side of the narrow New Hope Creek channel in Jordan Lake will remember how those spots concentrated largemouths. […]

Finding schools of baitfish, like these under attack from predators, is the key to keeping up with the movements of old drum.

Stay on the fish

Jeff Burleson

The Pamlico Sound is the largest saltwater lagoon along the eastern seaboard and the second-largest in the United States. […]