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. […]

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. […]

Flounder gigging is a very popular activity among South Carolina fishermen, especially during the warmer months.

Gig your doormats at night

Terry Madewell

For knowledgeable anglers, there’s always more than one way to get your doormat flounder. Flounder fishing with rod and reel is fun, but gigging at night can be awesome. […]

Striped bass and other species have been passing up the rock-arch rapids fish ladder at Lock and Dam No. 1 near Riegelwood on their way to traditional spawning grounds upstream.

Cape Fear River striper moratorium and stocking

Jerry Dilsaver

A moratorium against possessing stripers from anywhere in the Cape Fear River basin below the B. Everett Jordan Dam has been in place since 2008. Beginning in 2003, the N.C. Wildlife Resources Commission conducted comprehensive surveys on the striper populations in the Cape Fear River system and determined the population was dangerously low and with minimal recruitment. […]

The S.C. Department of Natural Resources has finished a three-year study on flounder, and it appears fishermen are satisfied with the numbers and sizes of fish.

Flounder research and data

Terry Madewell

Brad Floyd, a fisheries biologist with the S.C. Department of Natural Resources, said that a three-year study on flounder, and specifically flounder-gigging, revealed some interesting data. […]