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. […]

This main-frame 10-pointer with one split brow tine was taken Nov. 8 in Moore County after James Diesfeld helped a friend trim around his stands.

Watch the wind, cover scent when deer hunting

Jerry Dilsaver

James Diesfeld’s biggest advice for other deer hunters is to manage what you can, and two of the easiest are working with the wind and eliminating human scent. […]

Carolina Swamp Calls were born out of a handful of duck hunters’ desire for calls better than those commercially available.

Lee County duck hunters came up with new line of calls

Brian Cope

Calling is a major part of duck hunting to Chuck Amerson. After years of unhappiness with the inconsistencies of commercially-available duck calls, Amerson, his brother Ethan, his father Mike, and friend Scott Rollins, all of Lee County, partnered to make their own calls. […]

The S.C. Department of Natural Resources manages dozens of areas for public waterfowl hunting.

Public waterfowl areas are great draws

Brian Cope

Waterfowlers who aren’t lucky enough to have their own private water to hunt have a friend in the S.C. Department of Natural Resources, which manages numerous waterfowl management areas specifically for hunting — and many of them are available only to walk-in hunting. […]

Be ready for a buck to show up almost as soon as you put down your call; immature bucks are especially susceptible to calling, as they can often get in and sneak off with a doe while bigger bucks fight it out.

Be prepared

Jeff Burleson

Calling to wildlife is definitely an active way to entice game into close range. The animal’s nature and mood will determine how intense the response is. […]

Mecklenburg Hunting Club produces some trophy bucks in North Carolina’s Sandhills, but opening the sport to younger hunters is an equal goal.

Habitat improvement series: Mecklenburg Hunting Club in the Sandhills

Jeff Burleson

For 50 years, Mecklenburg Hunting Club has offered superb hunting opportunities for its 70-member cast in the middle of North Carolina’s Sandhills region. […]