Your search returned 100 articles(s).
A bed-fishing primer
Another spring is upon us. Tournaments are raging full-swing, the shallows are warming up, and the trees are budding. To avid largemouth fishermen, particularly in temperate Southern climes, this time of year means one thing – sight-fishing.
3/30/09 - Will Brantley
Channel surfing
Channels have long been the salvation of kingfish anglers in no hurry to face the certain pounding of an angry sea. However, there’s plenty of reason to target these coastal arteries even when the weather’s fine.
2/29/08 - David A. Brown
Two new facets of finesse
It is no secret among avid bass anglers that when fishing gets tough, finesse techniques can be the best way to turn a skunk into a limit.
2/15/08 - Pete Robbins
The wonders of winter
As fall gives way to winter, Northern lakes begin developing a rim of ice, and even hardcore anglers start putting their boats in end-of-season storage. For some, thoughts turn to ice fishing; for others, to a longing for the rebirth of spring, many months away.
12/14/07 - Al Lindner
Timing winter redfish
Redfish aren’t a complicated lot – they just want to eat and feel safe doing so. A slave to the tides, this fish plans its comings and goings around water levels. Master this schedule and you’ll keep warm with cool-season fishing.
12/1/07 - David A. Brown
Fishing for cows
Dan Wood was on fish, but he was having a problem. The three anglers of Team Atlantic Outboard were taking part in the 2006 Striper Series event in West Dennis, Mass., and couldn’t get a fish in the boat that fell within the slot limit. Almost all the fish he caught had to go back – but not because they were too small.
9/18/07 - David Hart
Fall patterns
To dedicated bass anglers, fall offers a variety of unique fishing conditions and the chance for some of the fastest action of the year. Weather patterns change as drastically in the fall as they do during the spring. It’s a time of year when all fisheries, particularly highland reservoirs, go through big-time changes, and the fish, both predators and baitfish, have to constantly adjust to keep up.
8/29/07 - Will Brantley
Tricks for dead-sea dismals
When George Gershwin penned those immortal “Summertime” lyrics “fish are jumpin’,” he definitely wasn’t talking about bass fishing. There’s nothing easy about fishing when it’s 100 degrees, the wind feels like jet-engine exhaust, and the air is almost as wet as the water. As tough as it is above the water, it’s not much better below the water.
8/21/07 - Bryan Hendricks
Reading redfish routes
At the inaugural Wal-Mart FLW Redfish Series event in Sarasota, Fla., in 2005, the professional redfish team of Jeff Hagaman and James Goodwin won the historic event by fishing a “trough.”
8/9/07 - Rob Newell
The lowdown on rivers
Rivers can be maddening, constantly changing the way they do. In natural lakes and even reservoirs, walleye movements are far more predictable based on water temperature and time of year. But in rivers, walleyes and saugers react to even the slightest change in water level. Finding fish in moving water is often a here-today, gone-tomorrow affair.
7/19/07 - Ted Takasaki and Scott Richardson