A few weeks back, I began the task of tying shad flies in preparation for a fly-tying demonstration that I was asked to do for the Potomac Valley Fly Fishers in February. There are many variations in ...

Today we're out fishing in the Niagara River with the Flexi Jig and jigging up big sheephead! We've opened up with the Flexi Jig baited up a shad with a thumper tail and jigging it along the bottom. I ...

North Carolina angler David Williams won the FLW event and the $100,000 top prize at Lewis Smith Lake last weekend with tactics that are not often practiced by local anglers. Most of his bass, both ...

Fish are moving into the banks. Fish can be caught on 1/8 oz roadrunner head and swimming minnow body. Once you locate a higher concentration of fish, cast a 1/32 oz jig head with a gum drop Bobby ...

Striped bass are scattered over the south half of Beaver Lake, said Jon Conklin, fishing guide. Locate schools of shad with electronics and striped bass should be nearby feeding on shad. Gulls also ...

LAKE CATHERINE Rainbow trout are biting in the upper part of Lake Catherine below Remmel Dam. Use Power Bait on light Carolina rigs in heavy current or Trout Magnets in eddies and slack water areas.

There is no recreational fishery in Florida like the American shad. With its smaller cousins the blueback herring and hickory shad, these greenish-backed, silver sportsters are the Sunshine State’s ...

Fish the Horseshoe Bend area for striped bass. Jon Conklin, fishing guide, said that area is holding lots of shad and stripers are following the shad. Troll with shad or brood minnows. Stripers ...