For terminal tackle, I used my favorite redfish gear — a 7-foot medium-heavy graphite spinning rod, 10-pound braid on a spinning reel and about 2 feet of 15-pound fluorocarbon leader tied to the braid with a micro swivel. […]
Gar fishing comes with a warning: The snouts of these prehistoric-looking fish are lined — inside and on the edges — with hypodermic needle-like teeth. So care must be exercised at all times to keep space between human body parts and gar mouths.
Serious gar fishermen will find a source for the excess fish they kill during a day’s time — and not just dump them in a trash bin at the launch ramp. […]
One of the most-common angling misnomers is the general lumping of flipping and pitching into one homogenous image. […]
Here are some facts about sunscreen, compliments of the American Academy of Dermatology. […]
It’s easy to think about sunscreen when it’s a bluebird day and the sun is baking everything it touches. […]
Drop-shots aren’t the only finesse rigs that can be beefed up to provide bass a bite-enducing curve ball. […]
If the heavy finesse strategy has a hang-up, then we’ve punned our way into the explanation — hang-ups, snags, entanglements. […]
Terry Bates looks for breaks, ledges and points 8 to 12 feet deep where he finds a drop with deep water running close to a point. […]
Chucky Hamrick is a fan of the magnum tubes in the summer, but not in the traditional sense.
“I like to Carolina-rig tubes,” Hamrick said. “I’ll use the magnum tubes on a Carolina rig and put rattles in them, and they’ll float higher and they mimic small shad. Sometimes a slow-falling tube will be just what a bass needs to entice it into biting. […]
Chucky Hamrick also cranks grass, something few anglers ever do now days. […]
While many anglers constantly tune their crankbaits to run straight, Stonewall’s Chucky Hamrick takes a slightly different approach when the occasion calls for it. […]
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