September 2015 Archives - Carolina Sportsman

A VMC swimming rugby jighead and a soft-plastic crawfish trailer or creature bait will provide the smaller profile that’s often needed to catch fall bass.

It’s football (jig) season!

To a lot of people across the Southeast, the arrival of September means high school and college football, and you can count me in that number. I am a football fanatic. […]

In big water around bigger boats, paddlers need to follow the rules of the road and give way to other vessels. A big fish isn’t worth a big collision.

Paddle, fish but be safe

Bill Howard

I headed out in my Old Town Predator 13 with the intention of drifting along the western shoreline of Radio Island from the turning basin inside Beaufort Inlet. […]

BKB Swim Jigs

Don Shoopman

A Kansas bass angler is doing more than holding his own on the Bassmaster Elite Series circuit. […]

MotorGuide’s new X5 cable-steered motor has a sleek look to go with its impressive new performance enhancements.

New trolling motors solve old boat-handling problems

Allan Tarvid

One of fishing’s truths is that more casts mean more fish in the boat. And anything that eliminates distractions and saves time helps you make more casts and lets you pay more attention to your fishing. […]

A wood-filled creek produced this nice fall bass for the author.

Tough? Go with wood

Dustin Wilks

Fishing shallow wood is about as consistent a pattern as you can find in September. Notoriously a tough month because fish are spread out, September can really test your angling skills. […]

In the fall, big stringers of bull bream can be caught around the same deep brush piles where crappie are lurking.

September: a full plate

Terry Madewell

Fish are biting in the Santee Cooper lakes, but we’re at the time of year when some of the best hunting in South Carolina takes place as well. […]

Use the corner of the fish box to hold a Spanish mackerel still while you remove the hook from his razor-sharp teeth with your fingers safely out of reach.

Easily remove hooks and avoid sharp Spanish teeth

Jerry Dilsaver

Spanish mackerel have such small, razor-sharp teeth that many fishermen who are nipped don’t realize it until they see drops of blood or bloody fingers. Most fishermen are nipped while removing the hooks. […]