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Crappie Conquest: Essential Tips and Techniques to Catch Slab Crappie
Crappie, also known as papermouth or calico bass, are prized by anglers for their delicate flavor and spunky fights. With their beautiful, compressed bodies and schooling tendencies, crappie offer exciting fishing opportunities throughout the year. But whether you’re a seasoned …
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Top 10 Mid-Atlantic Fishing Hotspots to Hit this Summer
The Mid-Atlantic beckons anglers with its diverse waters, from vast bays to hidden mountain streams. Whether you’re a seasoned pro or a curious beginner, the region offers a summer fishing adventure unlike any other. Here’s a curated list of 10 …
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Stillwater Secrets for Fly Fishing Success in Spring
Spring brings a unique opportunity for fly anglers who venture beyond the rushing rivers. Lakes and ponds offer a treasure trove of hidden moments, waiting to be exploited by those who understand the subtle movements happening beneath the surface. This …
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Fishing Tips: Sturgeon
Sturgeon are large and powerful freshwater sporting fish that can be found in subtropical, temperate, and even sub-Arctic rivers, lakes, and streams. They’re also easy to fish for and a ton of fun to catch and release. Bait a hook …
How to Land a Trophy Trout
How you handle fish after you catch is critical to their survival. If you’re going to be a catch-and-release angler, you must do it right. But science tells us that how you fight a fish—specifically, how long it takes—is also a …
Fishing Tips: Northern Pike
Northern pike, or Esox lucius, is a long, slender, powerful predator. Its scales are a deep olive green close to the dorsal fin, shading to speckled olive and finally yellow or white on the belly. This excellent camouflage helps it blend …
The Best Tips for Winter Fishing
The pleasure boats are gone and the water is now all yours. But don’t venture out for your next winter fishing trip without following these top ten tips: Check the bellies of fish you bring up. If you find silt, that’s …
Salmon River Fishing 101
Salmon river fishing can be quite challenging since river salmon are very elusive. Salmons are aggressive creatures that easily get startled and swim away quickly, making them very hard to catch. The best way to fish for river salmon is to …
Tarpon Fishing in Texas
First thing to remember: This is big-game fishing and a bristle of trout rods are completely useless unless you’re hunting small jetty tarpon close to the rocks. Except for specialty fly-fishing, big tarpon require heavier tackle. They’re strong, frequently crazy, …
Strange Fish You May Encounter While Fishing in NY
New York State’s waters are home to a number of unusual fish. Some, like carp and goldfish, are easily recognized by most people. Others, such as bowfin and gar, may only be familiar to Great Lakes and Lake Champlain fishermen. …
Fall Lake Trout Fishing 101
Fall offers one of the best opportunities of the year for lake trout fishing and those who take advantage of this open window can enjoy some exceptional angling. Lake trout spend the majority of the summer in very deep water …
The Best Tuna Fishing Tips
With all the tuna action going on around Sydney, we thought we’d ask the tuna experts how to catch these fighting machines! Most anglers will have seen or heard about the mad Tuna bite off Sydney at the minute. If …
The 10 Best Tips for Beginner Spearfishermen
SAFETY FIRST Spearfishing brings with it all sorts of dangers—from sharks and eels to getting tangled in stray fishing nets. But there’s a bigger danger to spearos that is inherent in every water sport and that’s drowning. In fact, drowning …