May 2015 Archives - Page 3 of 6 - Carolina Sportsman

Trapping coyotes before they can prey on the latest crop of newborn fawns should be the No. 1 task for landowners this month.

Turn up the heat on coyotes now

Historically, coyotes were not part of the ecosystem in the Carolinas. Before 1985, only five of North Carolina’s 100 counties had coyotes. […]

Hatteras Inlet

Jerry Dilsaver

Hatteras Inlet has a stormy history, but the changes in the past decade have created storms that have little to do with the weather. […]

Putting your cast right on the fish you’re targeting could result in a battle with a trophy cobia.

Make strategic casts for trophy fish

Jeff Burleson

Sight-casting for cobia can be exciting, especially multiple fish and some trophy sized individuals are hovering at close range. […]

Boss gobblers won’t allow interlopers in their territory and often come at a fast pace to the decoy setup.

To decoy or not to decoy

Craig Holt

Marshall Collette never uses decoys in the morning but employs them almost exclusively at fields in the afternoon and evening. […]

When sight-fishing along the beachfront doesn’t work, nearshore reefs will almost always hold some cobia throughout May.

Check the reefs

Jeff Burleson

The beachfront might offer some great sight-fishing for cobia, but there places other than 10 feet of water where cobia can be caught. […]

No matter what kind of shotgun you use during turkey season, test it with several different shotshell loads so you’ll know how it performs with a gobbler 40 yards from the end of the barrel.

Turkey hunters can be successfully using many varieties and gauges of shotguns, even archery equipment, but most hunters stick to scatterguns because they offer a better chance of success and can be fitted to different hunting approaches. […]

Make sure you’ve got a livewell full of baitfish and one on a pitch rig when you approach a pod of cobia.

Three-pronged approach

Jeff Burleson

Spring cobia provide willing anglers with some of the best one-on-one action of the year, but fishermen must be prepared to spoon-feed these fish exactly what they want to eat while they are on deck and ready. […]

Turn up the heat on coyotes now

Jeff Burleson

Historically, coyotes were not part of the ecosystem in the Carolinas. Before 1985, only five of North Carolina’s 100 counties had coyotes. […]

Fishermen can catch plenty of bream and shellcrackers this month in the upper end of Lake Marion.

May is hard to beat

Terry Madewell

If there’s one month when just about every angler with a piscatorial preference can find something he or she likes, it would be May. […]

The author caught this big spawning female in the shallows.

The many stages of May

Dustin Wilks

Bass have a whole lot going on in the spring. Spawning, fishing pressure and rising water temperatures all contribute to when and where you can catch fish. […]