June 2013 Archives - Carolina Sportsman

Vudu Shrimp

Can an artificial lure — a soft plastic — outfish a natural creature? That day has arrived and it’s like magic, hence lure’s name, thanks to Ken Chaumont of Lacassine. […]

Beulah Belle fired a wildcat .25-.348 cartridge—a necked-down .348 Winchester developed in 1936 to fit in the Model 71 Winchester Lever Action—still said to be one of the smoothest lever actions ever invented.

The building of ‘Beulah Belle’

Gordon Hutchinson

In the late ’40s and ’50s, the United States was undergoing a boom economy, recovering from restricted materiel supplies that resulted from World War II. […]

The evolution of LCD technology makes keeping screens more important than ever.

Keeping it clean

Allan Tarvid

LCD screen brightness, contrast and resolution improve with every new generation of marine electronics. […]

Wild brook trout live in small, hard-to-reach streams high in the mountains, like Moses Creek.

Brook trout are easy to locate and easy to catch; getting to them is the hard part. Native brooks inhabit the headwaters of mountain streams, the wild, hard-to-reach sections of creeks accessible only by foot where the water is pure and cold, places choked with rhododendron and mountain laurel. […]

June is a great time to catch big catfish on either of the Santee Cooper lakes.

It’s hot, but so is fishing

Terry Madewell

Striper season officially shuts down from June through September, so the focus moves to other species, but there’s plenty of fish that continue to bite well throughout the summer. […]

Gavin Dibler of Kitty Hawk learned how to inflate a puffer fish while fishing on the Miss Oregon Inlet.

Outer Banks head boat tips

Walter Taylor

Check the weather before you go. Wind direction affects water clarity that can determine the fishing. […]

Post-spawn bass often take up residence on structure along the edges of channels or ditches leading to and from their spawning coves.

Tune to right channel for post-spawn bass

Craig Holt

So what’s a good strategy for finding post-spawn bass? […]

South Carolina flounder are managed with a 14-inch size minimum, but daily creel limits vary by area.

Flounder Limits

Terry Madewell

Limits on flounder are not the same throughout South Carolina’s waters. […]

Productive post-spawn baits include (clockwise from bottom): Zara Spook, Pop-R, Rat-L-Trap, Fluke, trick or floating worm, centipede.

Best lures for the post-spawn

Craig Holt

Because bass leave spring spawning beds over a period of weeks, Joel Richardson knows these fish may be at different areas of an impoundment on a particular day, and that means fitting his tackle to the area(s) he chooses to fish. […]

A sonic tag is inserted into the stomach of a Cape Fear River striper. It will allow the striper’s movements to be tracked by biologists.

Cape Fear striper spawn and migration

Jerry Dilsaver

Stripers have become a species of special interest in the Cape Fear River basin. Before the construction of three locks and dams between Wilmington and Fayetteville in the early 1900s, the Cape Fear was considered one of the top five striper rivers in the country. […]