November 2012 Archives - Page 6 of 7

Keep up with the weather and try to fish ahead of approaching fronts, which will often mark major changes in trout activity.

Stay ahead of the weather

South Carolina’s weather during the fall and early winter can shift from warm, summer-like conditions to a bone-chilling cold in just a few hours. […]

Hook a live mullet through the nose from bottom to top with a jighead.

Capt. Mark Stacy likes to use live baits for trout and redfish — and for flounder, too, when they are around. Years of experience have shown him where he can catch mullet minnows, small menhaden and shrimp well into the fall. […]

Wood duck boxes are a common sight across North Carolina, thanks in part to the efforts of a high-school shop teacher from Alamance County.

High-school teacher increased wood ducks

Craig Holt

In the mid-1970s, North Carolina was home to relatively few native wood ducks. That began to change when a “shop” teacher at Western Alamance High School put his students to work building and selling wood duck boxes. […]

A tiny piece of wire run through the body of a D.O.A. shrimp and through the eye of the hook will keep the bait from sliding down the hook after it’s been blasted by a few trout.

Terminal tech tips

Jeff Burleson

Fishing with artificial lures can be rewarding, and options are virtually endless, with lures in every imaginable color and shape. […]

Expert duck callers such as Josh Green know less calling means more results when it comes to mallards.

Jump-shooting will whack woodies

Craig Holt

Jump-shooting is a popular past-time among duck hunters, and it produces plenty of woodies — especially in the western half of the state, where duck habitat is limited to waterways. […]

Hunters can have good hunting on small tracts of surburban or relatively urban land if deer like this nice buck killed by Rives Cathey have cover, food and waater.

Tactics for urban deer hunting

L. Woodrow Ross

If you are a bowhunter, you may have an undiscovered bonanza closer to home than you think. You need to take an analytical look at the small, urban woodlots that you have passed by on the way to your “out-of-town” hunting spots. […]

Take a tour of this northern Piedmont reservoir’s best fall spots.

Lake of the Month: Belews Lake

Dan Kibler

At 3,863 surface acres, Belews Lake isn’t large enough to be considered one of North Carolina’s major reservoirs, but it’s by no means just a little pond out in the country north of Winston-Salem near the “four corners” junction of Stokes, Forsyth, Guilford and Rockingham counties. […]