May 2013 Archives - Page 6 of 8 - Carolina Sportsman

Cover: May 2013 (NC)

Flounder and a handful of other inshore fish will make a big appearance in the Bald Head Island marshes this month, while bream are ganging up on the mayflies hatching at Mountain Island Lake. […]

Mayflies mean bream on the fly rod at Mountain Island Lake.

Swarm mentality – Mountain Island lake bream fishing takes off with the mayflies of May

Tim Mead

Why bluegills?

Mayfly carcasses are everywhere. Boat docks and piers are plastered with dead insects. Boats and tarps are covered with them. Carcasses are everywhere — except on the water. […]

Cover: May 2013 (NC) – Inshore

North Carolina Sportsman

Flounder and a handful of other inshore fish will make a big appearance in the Bald Head Island marshes this month, while bream are ganging up on the mayflies hatching at Mountain Island Lake. […]

South Carolina’s Cape Romain Reef is great May-June spot for spadefish and cobia.

Cape Romain Reef double play – Sight-fishing is a treat when spadefish, cobia are the targets

Pete Rogers

The wind was up, and the rocking of the boat made it difficult to stand as it pounded its way around Cape Romain Reef in late May while we tried our hand at a “reef double.” […]

Bare Bones

South Carolina Sportsman

The Bare Bones inflatable flats boat from Airborn can be rowed, poled or propelled by a small outboard or electric motor. […]

Jonathan Thompson said you want to limit your calling to drawing a single response, then let the gobbler do the rest.

The easy gobblers are already in freezers across North Carolina. As the end of the 2013 spring season nears, it’s the tough birds that are left in the woods, the old toms that have survived several seasons by understanding that there’s somebody out there trying to fill them full of copper-plated No. 4s. […]

Guides Stu Caulder shows off the kind of puppy drum that the marshes of Bald Head Island regularly produce for fishermen during May.

Bald Head Brawl – The extensive marshes north of North Carolina’s Baldhead Island offer great inshore fishing in the spring

Jerry Dilsaver

The small schools of minnows, swept down the little marsh creek on the falling tide, seemed to get nervous as it crossed a spot just a few yards inside the creek’s mouth. […]