May 2017 Archives - Carolina Sportsman

The Cajun Lures Cooyon Croaker is made to have maximum disturbance during the retrieve.

The Cooyon Croaker

Zach Dubois, 24, has a highly successful crappie grub on the market and recently introduced the Cooyon Croaker, a plastic frog sure to appeal to bass fishermen wherever bass eat frogs. […]

Lowrance’s latest software update includes a surface clarity filter upgrade that allows the fish arches in the top third of this screen to be seen at the low filter setting. The previous filter technology would have required a high enough level of filtering to eliminate them.

What’s in a software update?

Allan Tarvid

Lowrance’s latest software update reminded me that it has been a while since I mentioned how important updates are to all of us — no matter what brand of electronics we run. […]

Stabilizers that fit between the split limbs of a bow will quiet the bow substantially and cut down on vibration.

When I first started shooting a compound bow almost 30 years ago, many archers shot without a stabilizer. Bows were generally longer and heavier, and they didn’t generate nearly the torque and power of today’s bows. […]

An angler fishes a North Carolina mountain stream that’s not designated as a trout stream but can still hold plenty of trout.

So much water to fish

Robert Satterwhite

The early Cherokee marked the beginning of the trout fishing season when trout lilies began blooming along mountain streams in early April. […]

Redfish love crawdads and the brackish water that the tasty crustaceans inhabit.

Cape Fear River is prime territory for brackish water reds

Dusty Wilson

North Carolina anglers looking to capitalize on a redfish’s compulsion for crawfish should look first to areas where the tasty crustaceans live. Although Louisiana may turn mudbugs out by the bushel, many Tarheel State rivers have their fair share. […]

Guide Rob Beglin of Pawley’s Island targets redfish in the Waccamaw River just upstream from Georgetown, S.C., where a brackish environment puts crawfish in the predator/prey equation.

For brackish reds, whack ‘em in South Carolina’s Waccamaw River

Dusty Wilson

Upstream from Georgetown, S.C., the Waccamaw River is home to territory that resembles a largemouth bass hot spot more than a redfish hangout. And that’s fine with guide Rob Beglin of Pawley’s Island, because pulls a page from the Cajun playbook and fish for reds the way freshwater anglers target largemouths. […]

Swimbaits, like this one from LiveTarget, are luring more anglers and fish due to their lifelike appearance and swimming motion.

Make your lures match the hatch

Phillip Gentry

Many manufactures have lured a lot of fishermen to the sales counter with paint jobs and swimming action, but none has done it better in recent years than LiveTarget lures. […]

Sample the buffet line

Phillip Gentry

While many bass anglers don’t distinguish between threadfin shad and blueback herring when they refer to the “shad spawn,” knowing the differences between baitfish species could pay off at weigh-in time. Here’s a run-down of what prey species are likely to be sharing water with bass this month: […]

Can you determine when trout are about to feed?

Expert tips will help trout fishermen

Craig Holt

After decades of observing and studying, Lance Milks of Greensboro is an encyclopedia of trout knowledge. […]

The proper way to hook a live shrimp for use on a float rig for speckled trout is by pushing one barb through just under the shimp’s horn.

Speckled trout: the people’s favorite

Jerry Dilsaver

Spotted seatrout, Cynoscion nebulosus — aka speckled trout or specks — are found in the surf from Hilton Head, S.C. to Corolla, N.C., and beyond. They gather in schools and feed on shrimp, minnows, smaller fish and crabs on the bottom and suspended in the water column. […]