March 2014 Archives - Page 5 of 6

Dixie Deer Classic is beginning and end

A lot of sportsmen believe North Carolina’s 2013 deer season ended Jan. 1, but that’s only partly correct. It’s also the start of the 2014 season. […]

Speckled trout are cold-sensitive, and it appears that most of South Carolina’s fish survived two blasts of cold weather in January.

Battling against the cold

Bryan Bowers

In recent years, South Carolina anglers have enjoyed some of the best speckled trout fishing ever, in terms of both numbers and size. […]

Currents

March is an end and a beginning

Dan Kibler

The calendar changes in January, but you can argue that March marks an end and a beginning for most hunters and fishermen across South Carolina. […]

Rod Wall of Ninety Six looks for crappie to move out of deep water and enter the prespawn phase this month at Lake Greenwood.

Crappie in the Crosshairs – Lake Greenwood is long-line trolling paradise in March

Phillip Gentry

Despite some occasional cold and rainy weather, March ushers in the spawning ritual for crappie on Lake Greenwood, and Rod Wall of Ninety Six can think of no better place to spend the month. […]

Ed Duke of Concord is sure he’s one of the few fishermen in North Carolina who knows exactly how good the crappie fishing can be at Blewett Falls Lake.

Unknown Slab Heaven – Blewett Falls Lake is North Carolina’s best unknown crappie fishery

Phillip Gentry

It’s hard to believe that a major public reservoir with a fantastic fishery exists with hardly anyone knowing about it. In today’s world of high technology — sonar units practically detect fish at the push of a button, internet sites broadcast the day’s fishing results in an instant and a fisherman can pick up a cell phone and tell another one, “Hey, I’m on ’em” — no place is safe. […]

The striped bass fishery in the Albemarle and Roanoke sounds is healthy, despite lower population numbers.

2014 Saltwater Outlook

Craig Holt

The prospects for saltwater fish species changed negligibly last year, according to stock-status reports from the N.C. Division of Marine Fisheries. […]

Falls Lake’s March Madness – March bass fishing can be madness on Falls of the Neuse Lake

Jason Hawkins

Fishing during the prespawn can be some of the most-rewarding experiences for a bass angler. Fish that have been under the influence of winter weather are beginning to stretch their gills and begin to engage in the natural process of spawning. […]

Crappie are biting all over Lake Wateree this month.

Lake Wateree is a slab supermarket

Terry Madewell

If you’re looking for a lake that can produce a 20-fish limit of crappie that weighs more than 30 pounds this month, there’s some good news for fishermen: it’s one of the best times of the year to target slabs on Lake Wateree, but experts also agree it can be also one of the more complex times in terms of crappie fishing strategy. […]

Cover: March 2014 (SC)

South Carolina Sportsman

Crappie fishing breaks out all over South Carolina this month, and South Carolina Sportsman helps fishermen get a jump on slabs on Lake Wateree, Lake Greenwood and Clarks Hill lakes. […]

The author had a close encounter with this huge Badin Lake blue catfish last winter.

Feelin’ blue at Badin Lake

Jerry Dilsaver

Peering through the first of rays of sunlight across the glassy surface of Badin Lake, it’s a little difficult to fully comprehend how many huge blue catfish are swimming around in the lake, one of a handful of Piedmont reservoirs on the Yadkin River. […]