November 2016 Archives - Carolina Sportsman

Bass pro Andy Montgomery catches his best jerkbait bass on the lower end of Lake Wylie, where the water is less stained.

Catch more bass by understanding Wylie’s shad

Find the shad, and you’ll find the bass. That well-worn wisdom is true on Lake Wylie, especially in the winter. But to find the shad, it helps to know a little about them. […]

A shock of extremely cold weather will keep deer movements at a minumum until the sun has time to warm the landscape later in the morning.

Frigid days bookmark deer activity this time of year

Jeff Burleson

Unlike deer hunters in Canada or south Texas, hunters in the Carolinas have to prepare for both ends of the weather spectrum. It is not uncommon to get 80-degree highs for a few days and snow flurries a few days later. […]

Don’t give deer any advance warning of your presence, and you might score on a real wall-hanger like Alisa Green did last season in Wake County, N.C.

Without alarms, deer more likely to run into trouble

Jeff Burleson

The Carolinas, despite their rural setting, are far from what most people would call a wilderness. The overwhelming majority of the states’ deer population is accustomed to automobile horns, sirens, dogs barking and other symptoms of human occupancy. […]

Black nose crappie

Dusty Wilson

Without a doubt, the Eno River presents a unique crappie fishing experience, in part because it offers the opportunity to catch a unique crappie. […]

Tiny jigs with built-in spinner blades can make a big difference in the number of crappie going in your cooler.

Blades of glory

Dusty Wilson

Ask guide Eddie Moody what the difference is between a long-liner and a tight-liner, he’ll quickly tell you that a tight-liner is more of a finesse or presentation fisherman, while a long-liner is putting his money on a reaction strike. […]

Sex sells when it comes to deer scents

Phillip Gentry

Using scents throughout the rutting period is mainstream to what most deer hunters accept as scent luring the animals into range. To whitetail deer, odors are a language until themselves that tell a very pungent story. […]

When the corresponding food source is in season, food-attractant scents can be used to direct deer into specific areas of a feeding zone.

The lowdown on food attractants

Phillip Gentry

Anyone who has ventured into the woods with gun or bow in hand has considered a strategy of hunting deer based around feeding preferences: natural, planted or dumped out on the ground. But have you ever considered a hunting strategy based on the scent of food? […]