Bass, Redfish, Catfish, and Plenty of Gators
Santee, South Carolina – Captain Jimmie Hair surprised me when we met at Pineville and he asked how dead-set my fishing partner, Eric Burnley, and I were on catching bass, seeing as how the bigmouth bite had been off lately and the wind was whipping Lake Moultrie to an uncomfortable froth.
The plan on this early October morning, hatched long before, had been to fish for largemouths on either Lake Marion or Lake Moultrie, which comprise most of the long-heralded fish-catching area known as Santee Cooper Country. I figured we were set to soak some plastic worms, perhaps on a Carolina rig, and was expecting the wind to make strike detection tough.
"We can stay here and maybe catch a bass or two," he said, with clear emphasis on the word maybe, Read more...
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Rockfish Galore
Solomons Island, MD – Few things are better than starting the fishing day by idling out of a calm marina before most people have brushed their teeth, an orange ball of light cresting the distant trees and throwing warm pastels into the scattered overhead clouds that signal a gorgeous morning ahead. With the sun struggling to break up the morning’s haze, the water being splashed off the boat’s gunwales fairly glisten. As we move out of the creek, schools of silversides and menhaden ball on the surface and similarly glisten as they scatter through the surface film.
Having been in the Calvert County region of Maryland’s Chesapeake Bay before, and looking at the stern of the boat where Captains Sonney Forrest and Andrew Turner had already collected a barrel full of lively spot, I felt confident that it was going to take a calamity to keep us from catching stripers. Read more...
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Watch for Ken on ESPN's Outdoor Revolutions
Ken recently filmed a number of commentary-type shorts, which introduce regularly scheduled programming on the ESPN2 outdoor block during spring 2008. Subjects to be covered include electric motors, sonar, GPS navigators, rods, reels, soft plastic lures, and more.
| 2009 TIP-A-DAY CALENDAR
Ken Schultz’s Daily Fishing Tips is a 2009 page-a-day calendar packed with valuable information that will help any angler catch more fish, catch bigger fish, get better performance from fishing equipment, properly land and handle fish, and much more. Over three hundred specific tips written by Ken overlay a wide range of full-color fishing-related photographs. Visit the Tip-A-Day Calendar page.
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