Good numbers of legal seatrout and redfish are being caught in the coastal rivers, along with lots of sand trout, mangrove snapper, sheepshead and the occasional flounder. SureKetch jigs or DOA CAL shad tails bounced slowly in the deepest holes are producing, along with live shrimp and mud minnows. The fish are biting best on [...]
Minnow Fishing
Early Fall Bass and Walleye Success in Minnesota!
We have had some great early fall fishing in northern Minnesota! My wife, Heather, and I fished in the Masters Walleye Circuit tournament in Cass Lake, managing to finish in the top 10, landing some whopper walleye. We also had an amazing day bass fishing, landing 40 Bass up to 22 inches long with the new [...]
The GoFISHn Line-The Best Catches and Fishing News: Half-Ton Sturgeon, $1,000,000 Record Tuna, and More!
There are a lot of awesome posts on GoFISHn throughout the week. Here are 10 of our most popular, most recent GoFISHn updates: 1,000-Plus-Pound Sturgeon Landed in British Columbia – A half-ton dinosaur landed in the Fraser Grouper Grabs Spearfisherman’s Catch: Crazy Video! – There’s always a bigger fish in the sea! Is this Evidence of Underwater [...]
Double your pleasure, double your fun.
Today was the first day the water temperature registered under 60 since spring and the fish are responding. Smallmouth and walleye are both feeding on rocky points and humps. Crashing crankbaits into the rocks or snapping jigs tipped with Gulp Alive Minnows are both effective presentations. High speed trolling the basin is also putting walleye [...]
Iowa Teenagers Catch 5,000-year-old Bison Skull
A handful of Iowa teens snagged a prize catch they’ll certainly never forget. From Cedar Rapids, Iowa, Cody Sprague described the catch with predictable teenager apathy. “It was pretty cool,” said Sprague, who was netting minnows when he snagged the skull, which scientists estimate to be that of a bison at least 5,000 years old. [...]
Niugini Bass in New Guinea on Shad Raps?
Shad Raps are some of Rapala’s most famous lures outside of their original floating minnow. But the bass that the Super Shad Raps were catching recently are a little different than the largemouths at your farm pond. According to the Rapala USA Facebook page, outdoor writer Steve Ryan was fishing in Papua New Guinea, battling some niugini [...]
Spirit Lake fishing report
The smallmouth bass bite is consistent on Spirit Lake with some nice fish to be had, I recentely landed a 20″ beauty. The average fish is running 15-18 inches. Light jigs with small creature baits or Gulp Minnows have been the mainstay for the past couple of weeks, but crankbaits are beginning to put some [...]
Rare Minnow Discovered in North Carolina
The bridal shiner has not been seen since the 1960s in the Chowan River Basin and was never spotted in those waters in North Carolina, until now. On May 1, Tyler Black, a fisheries biologist, and Michael Young, a fisheries technician, were surveying Deep Swamp Branch in Hertford County looking for the rare Chowanoke crayfish. What they did find [...]
Spirit Lake yields three Master Angler awards.
In less then one week Spirit Lake gave up three Iowa Master Angler awards to three different guide clients. Kelli and Rod both had Master Angler bluegill over 10 inches and Marty had a trophy smallmouth of 20 1/4 inches. Kelli’s big bluegill hit a 3″ Berkley Pro Tube when we were casting for bass, [...]
Father’s Day Trip Leads to Record Flounder in New Jersey
P.J. Todd, 10, wanted his dad to take him fishing for father’s day, Phil Todd gladly obliged, and the 42-year-old landed his own present. Todd and his son, of Egg Harbor Township, went over to the Atlantic City Seawall Fishing Complex, rigged a big minnow, cast it out about 40 feet off the bank and rocks there, [...]
