Southwestern Louisiana is bayou territory and the Lake Charles area is home to plenty of redfish and trout in the marshes of Big Lake. Traveling to the end of Big Pasture Road in Calcasieu Parish…
Every place we seek game fish — inland, in the coastal shallows, or off in the marine deep — has its own unique character. And what makes it special depends on each angler and boater. When we…
Traveling to South Texas to fish in the famed waters around Rockport often involves hot and windy conditions. Schools of hungry redfish abound, are their cousin the black drum is making a prolific…
My recollections of past story assignments often begin with visual scenic images, but my recent trip with Captain Kyle Messier on the Crystal River seems to have changed that pattern. The spinning…
I'd have thought I'd grown used to the "before-trip" night of anticipation and excited imaginings for a new angling destination, guide, whatever — but I had not. And so, the wee hours before my trip…
Each fall there is a two-month window for recreational shrimpers to use bait to gather these tasty crustaceans for sport. The South Carolina Department of Natural Resources set this year's shrimp…
Since the distant climes and times of my teenage years, New England's stripers and bluefish had always nibbled their way into the borders of my angling dreams. After what seemed like forever, the…
OutdoorsFIRST Media received this press release from the National Professional Anglers Association today. We feel it is noteworthy for a number of reasons especially If you fish Tarpon or Bonefish…
Cantey Smith of Mount Pleasant joined up with some friends to go bottom fishing offshore and reeled in a fish that ties a South Carolina state record. Smith is in his 50s and has fished all over…
By Tom Keer for Take Me Fishing
Dropper rigs are standard operating procedures for trout bums, but they are relatively uncommon in the salt. That fact always surprises me, particularly because there…
Anglers new to snook fishing should realize that the "linesider" is a tropical species, more often found in the mangrove estuaries of central and northern South America. Over thousands of years,…
It seemed like ages since I'd been to Bud N' Mary's. From where I stand now, looking back over proverbial oceans of time I recall being poled across the flats of Flamingo by Captain Joe Stephens in…
