September 2016 Archives - Carolina Sportsman

The wider profile and heart-shaped tail give this bait a distinctive wobble and kick.

Heart Tail Swimbaits

Gary Yamamoto Custom Baits keeps raising the bar higher and higher with each entry into the artificial lure manufacturing industry. […]

Cable steering has always been the first choice where quick and positive maneuvering is required and the new Ultrex has power cable steering.

The next step in trolling motor evolution

Allan Tarvid

My first real bass boat was a new 1973 Raycraft Pro built in St. Augustine, Texas, right between Lake Sam Rayburn and Toledo Bend Reservoir. […]

Take plenty of time on the range to get your bow shooting accurately before the season arrives.

Make sure you’re ready – Give your archery equipment a good preseason test

Sammy Romano

Opening day of bow season is already here for a few hunters, and it will be here fairly soon for most of the rest of the Carolinas. It’s time to get your bow setup ready. […]

The Chattooga beckons to anglers

Robert Satterwhite

Anglers who spend a day on the Chattooga River will quickly see why Trout Unlimited named it as one of America’s top 100 trout streams. […]

Guide Kevin Davis expects September to be a great month to catch blue catfish like this one at Santee Cooper.

September serves as a wake-up call for outdoorsmen in the Santee Cooper area. The fishing patterns begin to change as the month progresses, with a trend to shallower water for some species and more-reliable, big-fish patterns in deep water for others. Hunting seasons throttle up everywhere around the lakes in September. […]

A variety of lead weights can be used for drifting or bottom-fishing. When paired with a weight trolley, the line will slide, reducing the resistance felt by the fish.

Heavy weights for bottom-fishing

Phillip Gentry

The type of weights used for fishing around inlets where the tidal flow often reaches near-warp speeds, varies depending upon the area being fished as well as who is at the other end of the line. […]

Bull redfish hold on hardbottom areas, like shells or rocks, while they migrate out of sounds toward the ocean in the fall.

For big drum with live or chunk bait, go with a Lupton rig. Here’s how to tie one.

Phillip Gentry

Regulations between states vary, but according to guide Dan Utley, South Carolina anglers have taken the lead from the North Carolina requirement when fishing for bull redfish in the inlets around Hilton Head. […]

Big bucks can thrive on small tracts of land that many hunters overlook, especially those closer to developed areas that traditionally are not hunted.

It’s not too late to look for land

Jeff Burleson

Every now and then, hunters get stuck in a predicament close to the opening of deers season when their opportunity to hunt a property vanishes. It’s tough to shoot a wallhanger without having a tract of land to hunt. […]

Speckled trout are caught along Masonboro Inlet’s rock jetties when the falling tide pulls baitfish and shrimp toward the ocean.

Seine Masonboro Inlet’s jetties for specks

Jerry Dilsaver

The jetties at Masonboro Inlet are oddities along the North Carolina coast, where most inlets aren’t lined with the stone structures. […]

The SCDNR offers a handful of special youth dove hunts across the state.

Take advantage of youth opportunities

John Gribb

A good dove shoot is a great way to introduce youngsters to hunting. The S.C. Department of Natural Resources provides a perfect venue where conditions and bird counts are generally good to excellent depending on the weather, for the exclusive first-day use of parents with children. […]