People who are serious about surf fishing for striped bass are a special breed of fishermen, but people who practice the art of skishing are borderline insane. Basically, with shores getting too crowded, those trying to get the real advantage to target the striped bass run have figured out how to play the currents and [...]
Bass Fishing
At 68 man get’s his 1st walleye and it’s too big.
Paul had never caught a walleye, plenty of bass, catfish, and panfish had bent his rod, but never a walleye. So when I told him his very 1st ‘eye was too big; well let’s just say I’m glad he was holding a fishing rod and not a gun. The Iowa Great Lakes have slot limit [...]
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Angler Lands Record Largemouth on Trotline on Ka-Tonka Lake, Missouri
All Dylan Gilmore and Austin Lake were hoping for were some catfish on their trotline they set up on Ka-Tonka Lake in Ralls County, Mo. What they found was as record bass. The two anglers returned to the lake on April 28, and they saw that something had hit the goldfish they were using as [...]
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Mini-Fish Fishing in Alabama
A group of anglers headed out to Jordan Creek in Castleberry, Ala. in search of anything other than a keeper. The anglers were biologists, and they were not interested in catching something to hang on the wall, but rather small fish to judge the health of the small Alabama creek. The biologists set out with [...]
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Strike King 6XD – Digging Down Deep
Baits get hot in the fishing world overnight. It happens all of the time. Someone catches a giant bass on this, or someone wins a tournament on that. It is so common that we don’t even think about the progression of how the lure came to be, or what characteristics make it different from [...]
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A Good Year on the Susquehanna Flats
A Good Year on the Susquehanna Flats This year the warm winter with no snowmelt up north allowed me to start guiding on the Susquehanna Flats in late March. The water temperature was 58.2 degrees on March 30th and 59.5 degrees on May 3rd, the last day of the catch and release season. It turned [...]
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Spring Smallies, 05/11/12
Tony and I did a float on the Watermasters today and had a blast getting into some smallmouth bass. Those fish are great fighters and put on quite a show tail walking! The water was a bit off color and we would probably have done a lot better if the conditions were right. But, the [...]
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Kayak Angler Lands Record Largemouth From Blanco River, Texas
Kirk Colvin is a U.S. Navy helicopter search and rescue swimmer, a senior at Texas State University, and, now, the largemouth bass record holder for the Blanco River. According to the San Marcos Record, Colvin was fishing on his kayak about 100 yards from the confluence of the Blanco and San Marcos River, casting his [...]
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Nascar’s Ryan Newman’s Top 3 Fishing Race Tracks
Many of Nascar’s best drivers are also avid outdoorsmen, which shouldn’t come as a big surprise to anyone who is a racing fan. One of those avid anglers is Ryan Newman. Newman, who currently is 13 in the Sprint Cup Standings and had a win early this year in Martinsville driving his Army car, brings [...]
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Pennsylvania Seizes Poached Striped Bass
Striped bass aren’t exactly plentiful in Pennsylvania, but every year, there is a migration up the Delaware River, and the Pennsylvania Fish and Boat Commission too often find greedy anglers. There is a two fish limit, and the fish can’t be bigger than 28 inches in much of the river, and in one stretch, they [...]
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