November 2013 Archives - Page 4 of 6

Justin Carter of KayakFish SC turns his kayak into a premier flats boat by stowing his pedal drive and pushing the shallows with a push pole.

Pedal, paddle or pole?

When the chance to contribute a kayaking column in South Carolina Sportsman presented itself, I jumped at the opportunity. […]

Christopher Minish caught this puppy drum in the warmer corner of a shallow bay off the lower Cape Fear River.

November is a great month, actually one of the best, to be fishing along the North Carolina coast. However, many fishermen consider it to be the last of the fall months with great fishing and are ready to hang up their rods about halfway through. […]

Make sure to re-sample your food-plot soils to see if this year’s unusual rainy season has affected the soil composition.

How to get the ‘wet’ out

Jeff Burleson

For many Americans living in the southeast, the thought of building a modern-day ark was becoming a real possibility this year. […]

To really beat the crowds, South Core banks is a surf-fisherman’s dream land.

No frills, but plenty of fish – Camp in a tent, a camper or a cabin, and get close to plenty of fish on the South Core Banks.

Walt Bowen

Have you imagined yourself on a nearly deserted island where there with no roads, lights or restaurants? Where the crime rate is zero? Where rush hour traffic might consist of two vehicles heading slowly down the beach a mile or more apart? […]

Backlashes

Park Service is not sportsman’s friend

Craig Holt

If uncertainty once existed about the National Park Service’s course to nurture animal and plant life at public venues — acknowledging the need to protect some birds and turtles at Cape Hatteras National Seashore — the federal agency erased all doubt recently in Florida. […]

Bulls Island offers great and unique opportunities for archery hunters who want to live in the woods for a week.

‘Fantasy Island’ for bowhunters – Bulls Island is really ‘fantasy island’ for adventuresome bowhunters

Larry Chesney

Imagine spending six days on a jungle island; deer-hunting when you have a hankerin’, fishing when you feel like it, and sitting by a campfire at night eating and drinking like some banana republic royalty. […]

Butch Foster lifts a pair of chunk whiting out of the waters of the Cape Fear River close to Cape Fear, where fishermen catch thousands of whiting in the fall run.

Whiting White-Out – Cape Fear River is center of a great fall run of tasty whiting

Mike Marsh

“The whiting are biting,” said the voice on the telephone. “Want to come along?” […]

Using a grunt call is an aggressive and often successful tactic after the peak of the rut passes.

Make the right call! With the peak of the rut finished, make the right call this month for South Carolina bucks.

Pete Rogers

For three years, I hunted this same buck with only fleeting sightings of him — usually in the opening week and during the rut. Not once did I ever have even a remote opportunity to draw my bow. […]

Cover: November 2013 (SC)

South Carolina Sportsman

Big deer are already hitting the ground, so learn how to tag your buck — even after the rut. […]

Cover: November 2013 (NC)

North Carolina Sportsman

Aaron Bates of Wadesboro killed this trophy buck in Anson County in mid-September, hunting out of a ground blind set up for his father. […]