March 10, 2015

Bait Blunders – Don’t Do This!

I love bait. The smell of chum, the feeling of oily bunker, and the sight of wiggling bloodworms get me all charged up. But fishing from a boat, it’s easier than one might think to ruin […]

October 28, 2014

THEY ATE THE FISH-CAM – Got Bait? III is Mahi-Mahi Mayhem

Mahi-mahi fishing can get quite chaotic, and when we were shooting the third episode of Got Bait? the chaos was just plain out of control. The dang fish tried to eat our underwater fish-cam. We had […]

September 16, 2014

Bait vs. Lures Take II – Which is Best for Striped Bass?

Which is better when you’re trying to catch striped bass: live baits, or soft plastic lures? The bait-versus-lures debate is an old one, which we first addressed with regards to flounder fishing, in the pilot for a new […]

September 9, 2014

Five Tips for Trolling

Trolling is an effective way to catch fish, but it could be a lot more effective for a lot of anglers. Why? Because it isn’t quite as simple as it seems – how you outfit and […]

December 3, 2013

Gear Video: Gulp! Saltwater

John Prochnow and Chester Moore talk about new Berkley Gulp! saltwater bait, designed especially for the Texas coast.

October 15, 2013

Gear Video: Topwater tube bait? (video)

Canyon Plastics has come up with a revolutionary lure concept that successfully combines two popular styles into one productive bait: a topwater walker with a tube bait. The result is a lure that is effecive on […]

May 20, 2013

Tuesday Tip: Thermocline and Crappie

During summer, the crappie there stage in the deep, cool thermocline of these creeks and then leave to go feeding on shad which is their number one prey item. Anglers should also be mindful that when […]

May 13, 2013

Tuesday Tip: Trout and docked rigs

The oil rigs docked in ship channels all along the coast are loaded with specks during the summer. The best fishing is at night under green fishing lights and the best part is you can beat […]

April 15, 2013

Tuesday Tip: Big brushpile crappie

Most of the crappie fishing guides who consistently catch those 15-17 inch slabs do not bait their brush piles. This seems to go against logic because most crappie fishing reports talk about fish over baited brush. […]

April 25, 2012

Bigger (live) bait equals bigger bass!

A couple of years ago my wife Lisa and I took our friends Rion and Cythia Carlos fishing. Well, things were slow on the saltwater front so we ended up heading back and taking them fishing […]

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