Inshore Fishing
Time to store and protect your kayak
As cold weather rolls in along with other activities such as hunting season and football, fishing is no longer a priority for many anglers, and kayaks tend to be put to the side. […]
November 2015
Bass Fishing
YUM Bad Mamma
If you’ve seen one soft plastic creature bait and you’ve seen them all. Right? […]
Fishing
‘Marine-grade’ means more than you might think
Owning a boat long enough to pay it off has a dark side. I usually own a fishing boat about 15 years — long enough to get it set up just right for me and, unfortunately, long enough to see electrical problems develop. […]
Freshwater Fishing
It’s big-fish season again at the Santee Cooper lakes
November is an overlooked and underappreciated time at the Santee Cooper lakes. As good as October was in terms of catching fish and seeing a lot of deer, the action improves this month with larger fish getting on a strong bite and big deer moving during the rut. It’s “go” time. […]
Bass Fishing
Bass are spread out this month, so fish November patterns
In November, bass spread out a good bit, but you can always find some bass in shallow water, so try these patterns this time of year. […]
Inshore Fishing
Shrimp fill the bill when bait thieves are run off by the cold
Brandon Sauls believes that live shrimp will trigger bites from speckled trout, even when nothing else works. While he’ll often catch specks on lures or minnows, shrimp are their preferred food and well worth the effort and expense to get. […]
Inshore Fishing
Know your state line and state limits
The border between the Carolinas runs northwest to southeast angle across the Calabash River and Intracoastal Waterway, marshes and creeks from just west of Calabash to just east of the north jetty at Little River Inlet. […]
Deer Hunting
Age bucks correctly without doing any ground checking
As deer age, their bodies show it, so looking at their bodies instead of their racks will allow you to get a good estimate of how old a buck is. […]
Sidebars
Let your decoy spread rock and roll, but not all the time
Adding motion to a decoy spread is one of the best ways to make 100 duck-looking chunks of plastic appear to be alive. […]
Ducks
Hunt ducks safely on the Pamlico Sound
Each year, thousands of migrating waterfowl show up in eastern North Carolina, which has plenty of beaver swamps, impounded grain fields, creeks, lakes and sprawling sounds where a duck can find a place to rest and eat. […]