Fishing

News & Tips: 8 Things You Can Do to Prevent a Fishing Line Birds Nest...
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8 Things You Can Do to Prevent a Fishing Line Birds Nest

Spring is not far away. There will soon be flowers in the yard, I’ll be sneezing, and there will be a “bird’s nest” in my baitcaster reels. As Bill Dance says in his latest Bass Pro Shops commercial…
News & Tips: Narrowing Down Nets
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Narrowing Down Nets

Landing nets can mean the difference between a grip-and-grin photo and that heart wrenching feeling of lost opportunity. More so when a trophy fish is within hands reach. Pick up the right net for…
News & Tips: Frolicking Frog Forays
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Frolicking Frog Forays

Master wordsmith Spencer Turner said it best, when he said: "The celebration of food, captured from wild environs and presented to family groups and tribes, was what defined Homosapiens, the human…
News & Tips: Fishing Knot Library: How to Tie the Albright Special Fishing Knot...
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Fishing Knot Library: How to Tie the Albright Special Fishing Knot

How-to-tie fishing line: Albright Knot Instructions The Albright Knot is one of the most reliable fishing knots for joining lines of greatly unequal diameters or different materials such as…
News & Tips: Hoppers on the Gardner River
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Hoppers on the Gardner River

While almost all the rivers in Yellowstone National Park have excellent hatches of Mayflies, Stoneflies and Caddis flies, one of the most exciting opportunities for fly anglers is fishing the hopper…
News & Tips: Permit Fishing on the Flats
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Permit Fishing on the Flats

Though permit on the flats can be found outside the United States in such places as Roatan, Cuba, parts of the Bahamas, the Caribbean coast of Mexico's Quintana Roo province and certainly Belize, the…
News & Tips: Travel Blog: Island Inn, Sanibel, Florida...
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Travel Blog: Island Inn, Sanibel, Florida

As Captain Ken Collette and I made our way westward across the state, we were stoked to get to Sanibel Island. We'd made plans to fish with Captain Mike Smith for snook. Our plans were made in…
News & Tips: Tying the Egg Sucking Leech
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Tying the Egg Sucking Leech

From Alaska to Arkansas, the Egg Sucking Leech without doubt is one of the top producing streamer flies to ever come out of a vise. As good as the traditional Wooly Bugger has been to fly anglers the…
News & Tips: Pike Swimbait Rigging Tips
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Pike Swimbait Rigging Tips

If you're not casting swimbaits for northern pike you're missing out. Swimbaits are one of the hottest lures on the market right now, and for good reason — they catch a ton of different species. The…
News & Tips: Fishing Weights Buyer's Guide
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Fishing Weights Buyer's Guide

Tungsten Screw-in Worm Weights from Bullet Weights Fishing weights are an important component in any angler's tackle box. Unlike sinkers that are mainly used for bait fishing, weights are primarily…
News & Tips: Seatrout Tactics
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Seatrout Tactics

Seatrout have one or two fang-like teeth that makes them an effective predator. Spotted seatrout, also known as "specks" or "spotsides" along the Gulf States, have a large distribution on the…
News & Tips: Classic Lures: Eppinger Dardevle Spoons...
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Classic Lures: Eppinger Dardevle Spoons

Lou Eppinger was a taxidermist practicing his artistry in Detroit in the late 19tth Century, but work was uneven, so he began selling fishing lures to flesh out his income. He eventually tried…