Here’s an observation I've picked up over five decades fishing the Virginia coast: spinning reels and saltwater do not mix.

Team members, Mark Sawyer, James Furness and Aidan Bordiuk have been testing a variety of spinning reels from chucking big lures for pike, dropshotting for perch to working topwater lures for bass, ...

Tis the season... of new fishing gear. There's really no better time to stock up on new rods and reels like the Christmas season. As anglers, many of us our pretty particular about the kind of gear we ...

We may earn revenue from the products available on this page and participate in affiliate programs. Learn more "I have too much gear," said no angler ever. Which is why we are so excited for this year ...

When water temperatures drop below 50 degrees, bass become very lethargic. This makes targeting largemouth during the winter a little tricky. Usually, anglers slow down their presentation and downsize ...

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Beat the winter blues. Learn to catch trophy steelhead (lake-run rainbow trout) in Ohio's streams. Find hot spots and tackle ...

As he delivered the thick walled, 7-foot cardboard tube to my doorstep, the UPS driver asked, good-naturedly, “just how many fishing poles do you need?” I took no offense to his observation, one ...

I don’t cook a lot of fish at my house. It’s finicky and can leave lingering odors, and I’d just as soon leave that whole experience to someone else and order fish when I’m eating out. The one ...

Forget those calendars stuffed with crummy chocolate or stale tea - Strike King's '12 Days of Fishmas' is the must-have Christmas gift geared exclusively to anglers. There's no better way to count ...

Sure, we’re not in the heart of the fishing season, but that doesn’t mean you can’t stock up on your favorite fishing gear during the off-season. Why wait and pay full price in the Spring when you can ...

For many of her devoted customers, Christmas wouldn’t be Christmas without Sally Barnes’s smoked wild salmon, made at her tiny Woodcock Smokery near Skibbereen, in Ireland’s West Cork. And for the ...