November 2013 Archives - Page 3 of 6

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

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. […]

Choose a deer call for its versatility when it comes to making different sounds at different levels of volume.

How to choose a call

Jeff Burleson

Game calls have been around for nearly 400 years. Duck calls were among the first type readily available; they were used to entice ducks into caged enclosures. […]

Hunting

Keep those cameras focused

Jeff Burleson

Even though trail cameras have been around for decades, hunters have only recently learned how to get the most out of their surveillance equipment. […]

South Carolina anglers can keep up to 10 spotted and/or largemouth bass in aggregate.

Fishermen who are interested in keeping a limit of spotted bass for the table and fish a number of Upstate lakes may find it useful to carry a scorecard to keep up with what’s legal to keep based on what body of water you’re on. […]

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. […]

Guide Kevin Davis battles a Santee Cooper striped bass at dusk — a favorite time for schooling action on Lake Marion and Lake Moultrie.

It’s surface striper time

Terry Madewell

Several very strong fishing patterns are in place in November for anglers to enjoy on the Santee Cooper lakes, but one species really seems to stand out for most, and that’s the striped bass. […]

Big Snowbird Creek is one of best trout waters in Carolinas

Robert Satterwhite

Big Snowbird Creek in Graham County, considered by many veteran trout fishers as one of the best streams in the far western section of the state, now has four distinct fisheries. In July, a 2.8-mile section of hatchery-supported waters was re-designated as delayed-harvest waters.

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