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. […]

The first cold front of the season will often send speckled trout into a feeding frenzy.

Early cold fronts may jump-start seasonal trout movement

Jeff Burleson

Typically, September is often as much of a summer month as August, with 90-degree days and 100-percent humidity, but it is not out of the question for fall weather to show up early. […]

Trail cameras can give hunters a great look at the bucks on their properties and help pattern their late-summer movements.

Use photo surveillance

Jeff Burleson

Isn’t the easiest way to kill a trophy buck to know when and where he’s going to be the next day? There wouldn’t be any mature bucks left if it was that easy. […]

Moving water on the high end of the tide cycle is the ticket to running into numbers of nice speckled trout around Hilton Head Island.

Take a different angle around oysters

Brian Cope

Rick Percy’s surefire way of boating September speckled trout is by fishing oyster beds on an incoming tide, but he said a lot of other anglers approach these flats the wrong way. […]

Hunters can more readily observe bucks’ patterns and habits in the early season when feeding and sleeping are their only concerns.

Hunt those wet spots

Jeff Burleson

Even though fall arrives in September, the thermometer tells a different story. Average daily temperatures remain on the hot side for most of the month, and wildlife are still hovering near one of their most vital assets, water. […]