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. […]

Wood ducks are among primary species taken by hunters at Holly Shelter; the habitat is the kind they like, and it has improved since a 2011 wildfire.

Fire is friend and foe

Mike Marsh

The 2011 Juniper Road Fire burned holes in Holly Shelter’s Lodge Road Impoundment dikes; however, it did more good for ducks than bad. […]

Guide Wendell WIlson holds a spotted bass in his right hand and a largemouth in his left; with a little know-how, it’s not hard to distinguish between the two species.

Seeing spots, I think….

Phillip Gentry

When setting the revamped regulations for black bass, SCDNR biologists were wary of splitting limits between similar-looking bass species for fear of anglers harvesting the wrong fish. […]

Changes in creel and size regulations have helped Shearon Harris Lake remain one of North Carolina’s premier trophy bass fisheries.

Commission, CP&L decisions boosted big Harris bass

Craig Holt

With Shearon Harris Lake’s popularity among bass fishermen and its proximity to the heavily populated Raleigh-Durham area, fishing pressure could have hurt its reputation for producing trophy bass. […]

One third of the Lodge Road Impoundment is planted in Japan millet this season, with the rest in native vegetation that waterfowl eat.

Man-made and manipulated duck foods

Mike Marsh

The Lodge Road Impoundment has 21 acres of fields in the shape of an “I” that were ditched and planted in small grains several years ago, partly with the help of funding from Ducks Unlimited. […]

The N.C. Wildlife Resources Commission’s regional fisheries biologist Kirk Rundle said the Shearon Harris Lake fish kill seemed to run its course fairly quick, and the overall bass population wasn’t negatively affected.

Harris has recovered from first fish kill

Craig Holt

Shearon Harris Lake experienced its worst — and probably first — fish kill this past April, when fishermen noticed a majority of the 110 largemouth bass, 35 crappie, 20 sunfish and two catfish near the Holleman Landing boat ramp. […]