March 2013 Archives - Page 2 of 7

Big bass moving in to spawn are at their most vulnerable during March, because they’re feeding so heavily preparing for the spawn.

March is tough to beat

March is when most of the big bass are caught in North Carolina. One reason, I think, is because it’s when most people start fishing. […]

Guide Chris Wilson relishes being able to stalk redfish in the clear waters of late winter and early spring.

Sight-fishing cool for cold

Bryan Bowers

Sight-fishing is the pinnacle of inshore action for many anglers, and redfish are very suited to be the targets. […]

For pro fisherman Mike Parrott, shooting boat docks at Lake Wylie is a way to get away from the heavy artillery of tournament fishing.

Plinking Crappie — Get Lake Wylie slabs out from under docks

Phillip Gentry

Slowly motoring up to a marina in the South Fork River, Mike Parrot cut the controls and eased his trolling motor into the water. A past Crappie Masters national champion from Charlotte, Parrott leaves behind his “heavy artillery” when he’s fishing for fun on home waters of Lake Wylie. […]

Ken Tucker (left) and Aaron Ciucevich won the NCCATS event on Lake Norman in mid-January with these two big blue catfish.

Norman spits out big cats

Tony Garitta

Ken Tucker of Lincolnton and Aaron Ciucevich of Harrisburg brought two blue cats to the scales weighing 55.7 pounds to top a field of 21 teams at the Jan. 12 N.C. Catfish Association Tournament Series event at Lake Norman. […]

Jason Selfridge of Saluda shows off a nice Lake Murray bass — the kind the lake is still producing, despite no longer being considered a trophy lake.

The changing nature of Lake Murray

South Carolina Sportsman

Tales of honey holes that produce all the time on Lake Murray are hard to come by these days because, according to Hal Beard, a fisheries biologist with the S.C. Department of Natural Resources, who said the nature of the lake has changed. […]

Call-maker John Tanner developed the Purring BLock to make very realistic purrs and other soft calls — the kind that often get responses from henned-up gobblers in the afternoon.

Sweet talking for henned gobblers after lunch

Terry Madewell

Call-maker and veteran hunter John Tanner of Hemingway said one of the best attributes a good hunter can have when working henned gobblers is know when enough is enough. […]

Randy Pope is a veteran crappie fishermen who has caught more than his share of slabs by ‘shooting’ docks.

Carolina Crappie Association

Phillip Gentry

Crappie fishing circles have seen a dwindling in size and scope of the national tournaments that used to regularly make stops in the Carolinas. […]

Fishermen who catch big female bass on their spawning beds need to return them as soon as possible.

Pulling female bass off the bed

Jason Snyder

Female largemouth bass stay close to their nests during the spawn, and are a challenge to land. […]

Encountering henned gobblers can occur anytime, but according to this graph, the situation peaks late-March and early-April.

The biology of henned-up gobblers

Terry Madewell

Encountering a henned-up gobbler is a situation that is prevalent through a significant portion of the early turkey hunting season. It can extend for a considerable time, enough that hunters should learn to cope with it. […]

Shooting a jig under a dock requires plenty of practice to get the proper timing of releasing the jig and then the line to ‘shoot’ it parallel to the water.

How to shoot docks for crappie

Phillip Gentry

The art of shooting docks is a skill no crappie angler should be without. Shooting a jig allows the angler to present a bait well back under a boat dock or other overhead structure that couldn’t otherwise be reached. […]