May 2013 Archives - Carolina Sportsman

Stanley Top Toad

A leading artificial lure manufacturer’s newest pride and joy jumped like a real frog to the forefront of bass fishing circles very quickly in early 2013. […]

The Rossi RG410 looks like an old .30-30, but it’s a sweet-shooting .410.

Shotgunning fun

Gordon Hutchinson

An attorney friend who knows a little more about guns than I do about the dark side of the moon — but not much more — was wandering around a regional gun show, looking for I’m not sure what. […]

The Aqua-Vu Claw Discover is the latest in the company’s line of underwater cameras, and it makes finding lost items much more feasible.

Shortly after handheld GPS units became small enough to fit in a pocket, I remember a fellow outdoor writer lamenting about losing his. He somehow dropped it as he stepped from a boat to a dock over water 30 feet deep. […]

Jackson County features a number of excellent trout streams, and tourism promoters have used that as a campaign to attract visitors.

One county’s trout magic

Robert Satterwhite

Jackson County is a rising star in the world of trout fishing. It has the longest and most popular delayed-harvest waters in the state. […]

Guide Buster Rush caught this Lake Marion crappie on a jig.

May fishing breaks loose

Terry Madewell

May is diversity month for Santee Cooper, and it brings out some of the very best fishing for a wide variety of species around Lake Marion and Lake Moultrie. […]

Striped bass “fights” aren’t knock outs

Craig Holt

Even though many North Carolina fishermen have seen striped bass “fights,” this type of activity doesn’t indicate a willingness to eat a lure. […]

When crappie move into deeper water after the spawn, they are more apt to bite in the middle of the day and not just in periods of low-light.

The weather and sunlight factors

Jeff Burleson

Deep-water jigging for crappie can sound intimidating to the angler conditioned to chasing spawning fish in shallow water, yet many of the variables and difficulties involved in finding and coaxing crappie to cooperate dissolve during the post-spawn period. […]