June 2012 Archives - Carolina Sportsman

Bass usually don’t head to deep water until July, but they’ve been a month ahead of schedule all year. So fishing deep, open water might be the ticket this June.

The calendar is lying

I have to admit, I wait the whole year for June to arrive, because it’s my favorite month to catch bass on a crankbait. And I also have to admit, I’m afraid things are going to be different this year. […]

A fishing guide uses a drift boat on the Tuckasegee River, a site becoming more common every year.

Driftin’ away has merits

Robert Satterwhite

On weekends, and some weekdays, it’s not uncommon to see four or five drift boats on the delayed-harvest section of the Tuckasegee River in Jackson County. […]

Trophy speckled trout are suckers for surface lures.

Take it from the top…

Jeff Burleson

15 hours of daylight available for anglers to chase their favorite quarry across the breathtaking estuary associated with Winyah Bay. […]

Solitary reds

Bryan Bowers

On any June weekend, most boat landings near Beaufort are full to capacity, and traffic on popular rivers like the Broad is going full tilt. When the usual spots are just too crowded, the Coosaw River is a great option for anglers looking for a little more room to breathe. […]

Jeff Wolfe catches plenty of tripletail in the lower Cape Fear River, most of them larger than this specimen.

A Tale of Three Tails

Jerry Dilsaver

If not for wearing polarized sunglasses, it would have been impossible to see the dark shape under the crab-pot float in one of the bays off the lower Cape Fear River. […]

Target flounder around docks and seawalls in June.

Riding the flounder wave

Dan Kibler

Normally, when two waves approaching each other from opposite directions hit, there’s a crash and turbulence that can destroy anything caught in the middle. […]

The introduction and presence of blueback herring in Kerr Lake has led to changes in the way the largemouth bass population behaves.

Kerr Lake’s new ‘structure’

Craig Holt

During the glory days of the 1960s, ’70s and ’80s, Kerr Reservoir anglers knew spots that were the lake’s major bass magnets. […]

Tony Waterhouse (left) and Orlando Giles won the March 25 CATT event at High Rock Lake.

Williams whips field

Tony Garitta

Clayton “Mark” Williams of Taylorsville topped the 38-man field at the April 21 Bassmaster Weekend Series tournament on High Rock Lake with a five-fish catch of 22.31 pounds that included a 6.86-pound bass, the big fish of the day. […]

Darryl Smith has targeted blue catfish at Santee Cooper for years.

Dealing with the blues

Larry Chesney

It had been a slow winter for fishermen targeting catfish on the Santee Cooper lakes. […]

Steve Pack shows off a hefty catfish caught shallow in Lake Marion in June when mussels begin to die off and float to the surface.

June: A buffet for anglers

Terry Madewell

June marks the beginning of the 4-month closed fishing season for striped bass on the Santee Cooper reservoirs. […]