It’s amazing the lengths anglers will go to when they’re prepping up offshore baits. Ballyhoo get rigged and salted. Ribbonfish get love, care, and a chandelier of treble hooks. Eels get scrubbed with steel wool until […]
Specks are finicky fish, and when conditions aren’t right catching them can seem nearly impossible. Of course, you may have just woken up at zero-dark-early, launched the boat, then cruised for 10 miles before you found […]
Mother Lagoon in Full Bloom LISTEN: (4 Min, 15 Sec) SEPTEMBER AND OCTOBER are by far my favorite months out of the year, especially for fishing. It’s as if Mother Lagoon and her wildlife have been […]
I already knew that surf fishing was a ton of fun, but somehow through the years I suppose I forgot just how much fun. Then last week my family visited the beach for a week, and […]
Wait a sec – don’t you need a pool-cue rod, 80-pound test, and six ounces of lead to catch grouper!? Heck no. Sure, you’ll have to make some adjustments and take some additional factors into consideration, […]
Casting soft plastics has become one of the most popular ways to fish among light tackle aficionados, whether the target is redfish, speckled sea trout, or just about any other inshore predator prowling the water. And […]
Mahi-mahi are certainly an exhilarating fish to catch. They attack with abandon, leap clear of the water, and go utterly berserk when you get them into the boat. And on the whole, they’re relatively easy to […]
We anglers come up with all sorts of inventive ways to catch fish. New lures, new techniques, new rods and reels – the list goes on and on. But in some cases it’s mighty tough to […]
Catfish can grow shockingly large, and while they do tend to be larger in freshwater, they get plenty big in tidal waters, too. Interestingly, the record for blue catfish (42.78 pounds), channel catfish (7.44 pounds), and […]
If you’re targeting toothy critters, you’ll often need to work with wire leader. And, this stuff can be tricky. In fact, many anglers simply hate the stuff. If you know how to work with wire, however, […]