September 2015 Archives - Page 2 of 7

Targeting big drum around bait balls just off the beaches of Brunswick County requires strong tackle to minimize the amount of time a fish is hooked, making a good, live release more likely.

A new tactic for bull reds

Fishermen along North Carolina’s coach now have two relatively new techniques for catching old bull reds, not just one. […]

Spoil islands offer redfish with great habitat in the ICW around Little River.

Target spoil islands along ICW

Jeff Burleson

Fishing the marshes in the Little River area can keep any angler busy in the fall, but the banks of the ICW should not be forgotten, especially the spoil islands. […]

Redfish tailing on flood-tide flats are often located by their tail fin breaking the surface.

Target tailers on flood tides

Jeff Burleson

A few days per month, the moon’s gravity bushes a few more inches of water into the estuaries on what are known as flood tides. […]

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. […]

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

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. […]

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. […]

MidCoast’s Evolution popping cork is heavy enough to make it easy to cast in windy conditions.

How to pop off

Brian Cope

With all the popping corks on the market, it is tough to see how any of them are better or even different than the next, but guide Rick Percy said some are definitely more suited for his style of fishing. […]

Tanner Jackson lets fly at a passing dove near the airstrip on Suggs Mill Pond Game Lands on a permit-only hunt.

Four dove fields planted on Suggs Mill Pond Game Lands

Mike Marsh

Suggs Mill Pond Game Land covers 11,030 acres in Bladen and Columbus counties, with 27 acres in four areasdesigned as dove fields. Field No. 1 (Owens) consists of 5 acres of millet. […]

Squirrels, like these taken by the author, are abundant across South Carolina, especially on some larger WMAs with plenty of bottomland habitat.

Squirrels are abundant statewide

Terry Madewell

Biologist Billy Dukes of SCDNR said that the squirrel population is still super-abundant across South Carolina. […]