My friend Blake avoids fishing like a boy allergic to bees avoids a bee hive. He claims he has a curse. Every time since the age of 10, when he fishes, he gets skunked. On a beautiful summer day my friend Blair, Blake, I decided to go for small mouth on...

This last summer has been the best fishing for me not in just what I have caught but the memories that I have shared with those that have gone with me. To start off I have a three year old daughter that I love to share every experience with. It just so ha...

The Banana Boat – by Ari Vineberg Rumor had it that the Bluefish and Stripers were running thick off the New England coastline and by all accounts were eminently catchable. It was on the Friday afternoon prior to our departure from Hampton Beach ...

COARSE FISH There was once a time in the history of our sport when most considered that angling for anything other than trout or salmon on a fly was simply indecent and morally reprehensible. All other species of fish were considered “coarse”, ...

As a young boy I was always sneaking into my father's tacklebox to inspect his lures and rifle through the lake maps stuffed in the bottom of the box. I had to dig deep through all of the random things he had in there cluttering what was prime tackle sp...

IT was a cool morning on sept. 29th. I had decided to go smallie fishing i got to the hole a little late (845am). The smallies have been slaming the topwaters. I started out throwing my pop-r and got a couple 12 inchers really quick. I moved down a...

Hurricane Belle battered Long Island NY with intense rain and wind, ravaging the beaches and barrier islands of the south shore on August 10, 1976. During the height of the storm, winds were measured at 100 mph at Jones Beach State Park and combined with...

Yesterday.I got up as usall.I made a deal with my grandmother.I cut the grasss.We go fishing.Seams fair.I cut the grass.After awhile we went.We sat on the bank 5min.Then i had a bite.The blugill i got was huge.Then after that. The next one was biger.About...

Fishing is getting up before day break and hitting the water in time to see the steam rising from the water, Fishing is watching the sun rise or set on the edge of a beautiful lake while sitting in you boat. Fishing is taking a small child out and watchin...

With yesterday being the last day of the month and the last day of the records tournament I figured I would take one more shot at the smallmouth bass record.In my area the largemouth are not very big but you can catch some very nice smallies and lots of...

Headed out sat Fish for jumbo Perch + Rainbows , Morning Air was crisp with strong SE winds ,But for the end of Sept ,A beautiful day Hiked 2Kms into the lake, the trail was dry + the leaves were in there full fall colors {love this time of the yr ] Firs...

HI THERE YOU KNOW IT WAS JUST ONE OF THOSE DAYS WHERE YOU JUST CANT FIND ANYTHING TO DO OR AT LEAST ANYTHING YOU WANT TO DO,ANOTHER BORING DAY, LOOKING FOR SOMEONE TO CHAT WITH SO THOUGHT I WOULD GIVE MY SON A CALL, HMMM NOPE NOT HOME GUESS I WILL TRY HIS...

Arkansas River Navigation Channel at Kerr Lake I confess... I got some lines wet last weekend. I managed to drown several shad in the process of boating (and releasing) over 100 small channelcat. Not one blue showed up in my boat while fishing in the sha...

Who says that the pros or even the most experienced anglers catch all the big fish? We were floating the Bow River again today in severely hot weather conditions. It reached 30 degrees Celsius by two oclock and we set out to find those big Bow River trout...

One Clear night I was At the Lake Talquin Dam on the River side and I was with my freind Dave. We were using cutbait and Gar Fishing. Rigged up with a Zebco 33 which had 10lb test. Also a very Flimsy rod. I saw a huge Gar and casted right in front of ...

July 2007. Just started taking fishing seriously. Went to walmart and got my fishing lures and rod. Clostest place to fish by my house is the Huron River. Didn't think that there was alot of fish there just some Catfish, Trout, and Carp, maybe if I was l...

Here's a story about a cry baby and his kitten! Well about 6 months ago at the start of the season I was back in my spare room working on my reels taking off a 12 ft piece of braided due to frays in my line..... needless to say I put it on my coffee tab...

Our first musky outing for all three, my Dad, little brother and I, was not all that exciting at first. We were rookies to this highly sought after fish, and understood that not seeing one in our weekend trip was a high possibility. We woke up at the cr...

The other day when I checked my mail box I received a letter from bass pro shops, I get a lot of credit card offers so most of the time I don't even open them I just throw them in the trash. I figured that the letter from bass pro shops was just another c...

This one night after work i dicided to go fishing to my usual spot about 1/2 an hour out of town,but i stopped this great little fishing store.i started looking around for different stuff and at one point i'm looking at these little 1 inch tubes written ...