November 2008 Archives - Page 3 of 4

Few human intrusions into a buck’s territory gives a solitary hunter the best chance to kill a trophy.

Deer Gone Wild

When the rut kicks into high gear, hunters know its big buck time in North Carolina. […]

After three or four days of sunny weather during winter, Barrow will troll his baits with the outside bobber bumping the grass. And he gets results.

All Aboard for Specks

The morning broke cold and clear as Windsor Barrow and his fishing partner, Elton Harrison, left New Bern, heading for the Hoboken area and the backwater bays of Pamlico Sound. […]

Backlashes

Sportsman voters: check pols’ records

Craig Holt

Americans have been bombarded for months by mind-numbing political advertisements, enough Internet lies and personal assaults to float the U.S. Pacific Fleet in the run-up to November’s presidential, vice-presidential and state elections. […]

A big, walking bait like a Zara Spook is especially effective on bass in November, one of the best months of the year to fish topwater.

November is great topwater time

Davy Hite

Like most fishermen, catching bass on topwater baits is my favorite way to fish. It’s the most exciting kind of fishing — to see a bass come up and blast a lure that you’re working. […]

Guide Inky Davis loves bass fishing on the Santee Cooper lakes from November on because there is much less boat traffic and fewer fishermen to contend with.

Do double duty as cold weather closes in

David Sweat

Cooler weather is upon us, and many avid outdoors-minded people are searching to ideas to keep them busy during the winter months. […]

Capt. Butch Davis and owner Tom Russell accept the S.C. Governor’s Cup Outstanding Billfish Boat Award for Cerveza

Cerveza ‘sails’ to Cup victory

Jeff Dennis

The South Carolina Governor’s Cup Billfishing Series celebrated its 20th season with its sights set squarely on the conservation of billfish species. […]

Tim Rhyne won the recent BLF tourney on Clarks Hill.

Rhyne takes Clarks Hill BFL win

Pat Robertson

Tim Rhyne of Inman won the Wal-Mart Bass Fishing League’s Savannah River Division Super Tournament on Clarks Hill Lake Sept. 8 with a two-day catch of 10 bass that weighed 29 pounds, four ounces. […]

There’s no need in November to pore over your fly box. Just pick a streamer, and in delayed-harvest waters, it’s sure to entice strikes out of rainbow and brown trout.

Pick streamers for Upstate trout in November

Richard Bernabe

It’s that time of year again —delayed-harvest trout season in many Upstate trout streams and rivers. […]

Cover: November 2008 (SC)

South Carolina Sportsman

Lee Prickett of Beaufort killed this beauty on Sept. 20 in Orangeburg County with a bow. […]

An “electric chicken” is a fly tied to imitate a shrimp; it is deadly on redfish and trout.

Buggy Whip Time

Walt Rhodes

Moving about 20 feet out in front of the boat, the pod of six redfish slowly worked the skinny water for morsels of food, sustenance to help pull them through the pending winter months. […]