September 9, 2017

The Running of the Bulls: Finding Reds in the Buras Marsh

Recently, I took a 9 hour or so drive to the Buras Marsh Media Bash event in Buras, Louisiana, located deep in the southern part of the state’s marshlands. This event was a unique invitation-only event […]

August 29, 2017

Team WOA: Tournament Fishing Like You Have Never Seen

I recently spent a day riding along with the new WOA fishing team, and believe me, you’ve never seen a tournament fishing team like this before – WOA stands for Woman’s Offshore Alliance, and this team […]

August 22, 2017

Boat Trailering Disaster: Save Your Fishing Machine From This!

Boat trailering can be a bit stressful, with your pride and joy zinging along at highway speeds mere inches from asphalt, and why in the past we’ve covered Boat Trailering Tips, and told you about 5 […]

August 15, 2017

3 Wacky Fishing Boats that are Totally Cool

From tiny canoes to massive offshore convertibles, there are a million and one fishing boats out there. Some of them, however, break all of the molds. They fit into no categories. And they may leave you […]

August 8, 2017

New Outboard: Suzuki DF350A

With Yamaha offering the F350C, Mercury offering the Verado 350 and 400, and Seven Marine offering the monstrous 557 and 627 outboards, Suzuki has been playing a bit of catch-up ball lately. Their Df300 is a […]

August 1, 2017

Surprise Boating Industry News: Volvo Buys Seven Marine Outboards

Anyone who’s into outboard motors is quite familiar with the Seven Marine 557 and the Seven Marine 627, the largest outboard engines on the face of the planet. Based on a 6.2L supercharged V8 GM block […]

July 25, 2017

3 Things You do NOT Want to See on Your Next Boat

No matter how bad an idea might be, sooner or later someone will probably try it. Case in point: putting plastic cleats on a 20′ or larger fiberglass boat. Sure, plastic can do the job on […]

July 18, 2017

On the Water with Evinrude E TEC G2 300 Outboards

When the Evinrude E TEC G2 was first introduced we brought you the news with a test of the G2 200-hp outboard, and recently, we got a closer look at the 300-hp version of this motor. […]

July 11, 2017

Boat Trailering Road Trip Tips

Our caravan assembled in a K-Mart parking lot at 7:00 pm, for a final huddle before departing on the 10-hour run. Our goal: to get all four trailerboats to the inlet—in functional condition—by daybreak the next […]

July 4, 2017

Reader Question: Running Water, Please?

Question: This might sound silly to you, but why can’t boat manufactures build a boat that has a bilge pump that dispenses water out of your center console, that is waist high so you can flip […]

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