Marc Jensen decided to go fishing with his wife and some friends off New Brighton Pier, New Zealand, so he grabbed his grandfather’s 30-year-old rod that was held together with insulation tape and a cable tie and hit the water. With the rest of the fishing party having some moderate success, Jensen’s day was pretty [...]
Spinning Tackle
Man Catches 88-Pound Shark on 30-Year-Old Rod Held Together With Tape in New Zealand
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Lanark Reds and Wind
Marty Stephens of Evansville, Indiana, was my guest Friday and the morning started out with great promise. It was a little on the cool side as we left the Lanark Village boat ramp for a run to the east. The sound was slick and the breeze non-existent as Marty took his place on the bow [...]
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Review: Shimano’s Sustain FG spinning reel
In perfect timing with baseball’s spring training, Shimano has hit a monster home run with the release of the new Sustain FG spinning reels. Re-engineered for the 2012 season, these dynamo reels have numerous features that light-tackle anglers will love. I’ve fished the SA3000FG model on a few trips now and it whipped several different [...]
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Review: Al Gag’s Custom Lures Whip-It Eel
Massachusetts lure-maker Al Gag sent me some of his new Whip-It Eels to field-test along Florida’s Big Bend coast and I’ve been anxiously waiting for the opportunity. That came yesterday when I spotted a nice cobia doing laps around a channel marker. I had an olive green 6-inch tail with one of his eel jig [...]
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Review: Pflueger Arbor 7440 Spin Combo
Had a chance to play with the new Pflueger Arbor spinning combo last week in Homosassa. It’s a good rig for the money ($99.95 suggested retail). The reel has a hybrid aluminum frame with 7+1 ball bearings with a sealed carbon fiber drag. The rod is IM-8 graphite with a split grip cork handle and [...]
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Big Striper Headed Up the Chesapeake Bay
Rick Long, owner of Fish Off Gloves, was kind enough to take me fishing yesterday. We fished 'the Rips' from 2:45pm until 7:15pm and landed striped bass up to 31" on light spinning tackle. The most productive lure was a 10" BassKandyDelight soft plastic lure fished on a 1 1/2 oz. jighead. The fish were [...]
Offhsore trip 10- 8/9
Fished an overnighter on Oct 8-9 broke the inlet around 1pm the ride out was slower than normal but we arrived on the grounds and set out spread. We trolled for about 2hrs which didn’t produce much, so we decided to setup for the night a little early. Set lines out and about half hour [...]
Gwen Stefani and Gavin Rossdale Take Kids Fishing in California
Not every pop star can bait a hook. Singers Gwen Stefani and husband Gavin Rossdale took their two children fishing today at Troutdale Ponds in Los Angeles, Calif. Armed a spinning rod and a cane pole, one of the biggest couples in music targeted some of the freshly stocked trout with their children Zuma and Kingston. [...]
Alaska Silver Salmon!
Captain Rob of Classic Alaska Charters teaches Aussie Rebecca how to catch a coho salmon in a wilderness stream setting on spinning gear! There's still places to fish without seeing another human being, road, boat, or signs of civilization…something that is growing rare or impossible these days….even in Alaska! Experience an authentic wilderness experience with [...]
The Cowardly Captain: He’s No Sully Sullenberger. He’s Chicken of the Sea
Courageous captains are spinning in their watery graves tonight with the release of this audiotape of an argument between a captain in the Italian Coast Guard and Captain Francesco Schettino of the liner Costa Concordia that ran aground with fatal results over the weekend. Schettino abandoned ship before the passengers were off and stonewalled the [...]
