November 2013 Archives - Carolina Sportsman

Davy Hite loves to fish a Trigger-X Drop Dead Minnow in the fall, especially for bass suspended around baitfish.

Don’t forget soft plastics

Soft plastics are some of the most-overlooked baits that bass fishermen have in their tackle boxes once the leaves begin to turn in the fall. […]

Colorado, Indiana and willow-leaf blades give spinnerbaits different actions that excel in situations that are widely different.

A spinnerbait primer

Dustin Wilks

For many fishermen, spinnerbaits have taken a back seat to a lot of new lures and trends in fishing: swimbaits, umbrella rigs, vibrating jigs and swim jigs. […]

The Fat Boy

Don Shoopman

Paul Brown’s Fat Boys are still kicking, slowly twitching underwater, tantalizing and catching saltwater fish after the proven soft plastic was bought in the late 2000s. […]

Armadillos can destroy a field, rooting up the ground in its search for food. That makes them perfect targets for varmint hunters, since no one complains when they are shot.

Handgunning for varmints

Gordon Hutchinson

We were never overrun with those juicy targets we read about in the big sporting magazines — articles by guys who referred to their shooting cult as “varminters.” […]

ProMariner chargers can be set to charge either flooded/standard AGM batteries or gel batteries.

Battery chargers with a pulse

Allan Tarvid

The chemical process that produces electrical power in a battery can also damage it without human intervention. […]

Joe Gantt caught these two Gulf kingfish from the Kure Beach pier.

Don’t forget fishing piers

Mike Marsh

Fishermen should not overlook their favorite ocean fishing pier when targeting whiting. […]

Rattling with shed horns can produce life-like sparring and fighting noises.

Pick the right calls, rattling horns

Pete Rogers

Deer calls on the market today produce a variety of sounds. Look for ones with adjustable reeds that are loud and capable of making many sounds. […]

Fishermen in the Cape Fear area catch a mixture of Gulf kingfish (left) and Southern kingfish (right), which have brown or bronze markings.

Which whiting is which?

Mike Marsh

“Whiting” is only one of the angler’s names used for the three kingfish species, which fishermen catch in the Cape Fear River and along the rest of the North Carolina coast. […]

Use a leaf blower or rake to clear a path to your stand so your approach will be a quiet one.

Be quiet going in

Pete Rogers

Access is everything. Being able to get to your stand is critical when hunting big bucks. […]

Trail cameras set near bedding areas can give hunters a better idea of where to set up after the peak of the rut passes.

Check your trail camera after dark

Pete Rogers

Hunters use game cameras to monitor deer movements and identify mature bucks. […]