March 2016 Archives - Carolina Sportsman

A big Mop Jig will produce a lot of big prespawn bass, but not until you’ve found them with a search bait like a crankbait.

Not all the lake’s a stage

March means prespawn bass fishing across South Carolina, with maybe a few fish spawning late in the month, but it’s the best prespawn month and big-fish month. […]

Fishing with a bow is challenging, especially when done from a kayak.

Fishing with a bow is fun and challenging

Bill Howard

Fishing with a bow is a lot like hunting, and it’s especially challenging when it’s done from a kayak. […]

When Bassmaster Elite pro Brandon Palaniuk fishes the Classic at Grand Lake in Oklahoma this month he’ll have a box of Wiggle Warts with him.

The importance of realistic, crawfish patterns is well known to Bassmaster Elite pro, and Brandon Palaniuk proved it on his way to finishing second in the 2013 Bassmaster Classic on Grand Lake in Oklahoma. […]

ProNav Angler adds electronic super powers to a “dumb” trolling motor with electric steering and then lets you manually or automatically navigate and position your boat as you fish.

Phone-in boat control

Allan Tarvid

There seems to be no end to the number of ways smartphones and tablets can help us. Just about the time I thought I couldn’t be surprised by another smart-electronics revelation, I discovered that they can now operate a bow-mounted trolling motor. […]

Let the way turkeys communicate on a given day show you how they want to be called, and you’ll be a step closer to tagging a gobbler.

Let wild turkeys tell you how to call them; don’t go in with your ears shut

Terry Madewell

Steve Cobb said that the best calling technique mimics the natural surroundings of where you hunt, regardless of that zip code. […]

Tasty whiting are among the earliest fish to arrive around Cape Fear and the latest to leave, providing fishermen battling cabin fever with some great action.

Whatever you call them, whiting are among North Carolina’s tastiest inshore fish

Jerry Dilsaver

Whiting are found along most of the Atlantic and Gulf coasts, and their sea mullet and Virginia mullet monikers to a disservice to these mild-flavored fish, which have none of the oily qualities of mullet species. […]

Steve Cobb doesn’t overuse locator calls, opting to start making turkey sounds once he’s got a bead on a roosted gobbler at daylight.

Let nature’s sounds lead you in the right direction when calling turkeys

Terry Madewell

Steve Cobb said getting a location on a gobbler early is good, but that doesn’t make or break a hunt. […]

A cooler full of whiting when the early spring run is on will usually contain some fish pushing or breaking the 1-pound mark.

All hail North Carolina’s king(fish)

Jerry Dilsaver

Whatever nickname you prefer to use, whiting, sea mullet or Virginia mullet are properly named kingfish and are members of the croaker family. […]

Carrying plenty of extra bait to use for chum will help produce more black sea bass around nearshore structure.

Chum for better catches of black sea bass

Jeff Burleson

Black sea bass are voracious predators and will outcompete anything else in their size-class, especially over the winter and early spring. They cover up any available reef structure that harbors baitfish, but quite often, they will hover over certain sections of the structure. […]

Kerr Lake fishermen can target the channels around islands along its northern banks for winter stripers.

Kerr stripers, bass are islanders

Craig Holt

A big reason that guide Joel Richardson fishes Kerr Lake’s northern creeks and coves near the dam for stripers and largemouth bass in February and March are the many islands surrounded by deep-water channels that serve as highways for those two species. […]