The new Abu Garcia Revo MGX is making a big splash at ICAST this year. This super-light, super-tough baitcaster is Abu's next high-end baitcasting reel.Get all the details from Abu's designer Andrew Wheeler. –Brian McClintock
Baitcasting Tackle
Cicada time
Great time to be fishing! The Cicadas are here. Those that don't know about Cicadas are missing a real show. Imagine a bug hatching by the millions that is about the size of a grasshopper that crawls out of the ground,flies around in search of a mate, then dies. When the die they hit the [...]
New Gear at the Northwest Sports Show
Between the fishing and hunting lodges, charter boats, and fishing guides, many of the major fishing manufacturers were promoting their new products at the Northwest Sports Show in Minneapolis. Here are some of the highlights: Rapala Trigger X: This new soft plastic brand from Rapala is a line of scented, ribbed plastics for freshwater (with [...]
Falmouth Massachusetts Charter boat offering Trophy Fishing Trips for under ($150) per person (Guaranteed stripers)
Cape Cod has some of the best Sport Fishing in the world from mid May threw October. In the spring massive schools of squid and herring move in the sound with hungry striped bass gorging on them. Early in the season we use different fishing tactics on our charters, Ranging from trolling deep water looking [...]
New IGFA All-Tackle Record Brown Trout
With the Shooting, Hunting, and Outdoor Trade Show (SHOT Show) and the recent all-tackle largemouth record, no one is talking about this, but the International Game Fish Association certified a new all-tackle world-record brown trout last Wednesday, January 20. Tom Healy caught the 41-pound, 7-ounce monster on September 9, while fishing on the Manistee River [...]
Yo-Yoing and live Porgies for Stripers in Buzzard’s Bay
At the last minute today we got together with Porgie Mike Lundholm , a friend of Capt. Eric's, and decided to brave the wind, rain and thunderstorms to go for some bass at the southern end of the Cape Cod Canal, not far from the Mass Maritime Academy. Larry Conway, my high school classmate, and [...]
Bass fishing on West Lake Toho in Florida
After I attended the iCAST show in Orlando back in July, I found a guide, Captain Bill Whipple, and I was out on Lake Tohopekaliga at dawn to toss some shiners at the Florida largemouth bass that made this place famous. We left from Richardson's Fish Camp and fished mostly off Mackinson Island. Captain Bill [...]
