. Soaking cut bait has a bit of a stigma of being dumbed-down fishing, but there’s actually a lot of science and technique that goes into the proper hacking, rigging, and fishing of a bloody, dripping ...

Brunning fishes the lure on either spinning or casting gear, and he uses braided line tied to a 7-foot fluorocarbon leader to help the Senko fall just a bit faster. To the leader, he ties a 4/0 hook ...

The first signs of redfish rejuvenation for the fall have happened. Large schools of big fish can be intercepted in the right parts of Tampa Bay. Suffering to the south, redfish are in good shape in ...

One of the best-kept saltwater fishing secrets in the Titusville area is a little-known surface plug that was the brainstorm of a South Florida tackle wholesaler. Trader Bay Lures’ Primo Chugger has ...

. If you compare the two closely, the similarities are staggering. One of the key reasons largemouths are hailed as America’s favorite gamefish is because of availability. From tiny farm ponds to vast ...

Any angler who has fished the coastal marshes for more than about a week knows redfish love skinny water. They also love the wobble and vibration of crankbaits, but most of these lures run too deep to ...

If you've never used spinner-baits for shallow-water redfish, you should, simply because they'll often get reds better than any lure you can cast, including spoons or jigs, plugs, and sometimes even ...

"Tailing" redfish are not an everyday sight in Northeast Florida and Southeast Georgia. But when conditions are right (as they are now), scores of fish can be seen in a typical day, and many will be ...

Maybe if you turned back newspaper pages — and turned back lots of 'em — you’d see mentions of somethings called a “Split-tail Beetle,” and “Lucky 13” and “Devil’s Horse.” Oh, not turning back to what ...

Growing up, Houstonian Heath Hippel fished for bass on the lakes near Teague and along the Texas coast with his father. He enjoyed using the equipment, even though he put it aside after college ...