. Soaking cut bait has a bit of a stigma of being dumbed-down fishing, but there’s actually a lot of science and technique that goes into the proper hacking, rigging, and fishing of a bloody, dripping ...

Brunning fishes the lure on either spinning or casting gear, and he uses braided line tied to a 7-foot fluorocarbon leader to help the Senko fall just a bit faster. To the leader, he ties a 4/0 hook ...

One of the best-kept saltwater fishing secrets in the Titusville area is a little-known surface plug that was the brainstorm of a South Florida tackle wholesaler. Trader Bay Lures’ Primo Chugger has ...

The first signs of redfish rejuvenation for the fall have happened. Large schools of big fish can be intercepted in the right parts of Tampa Bay. Suffering to the south, redfish are in good shape in ...

. If you compare the two closely, the similarities are staggering. One of the key reasons largemouths are hailed as America’s favorite gamefish is because of availability. From tiny farm ponds to vast ...

"Tailing" redfish are not an everyday sight in Northeast Florida and Southeast Georgia. But when conditions are right (as they are now), scores of fish can be seen in a typical day, and many will be ...

We tried to figure out what this fish-shaped lure was to a redfish, but when examining the stomach contents and finding small crabs there, it was easy to understand that redfish look for blue and red ...

The most useful and versatile inshore terminal-tackle rig in Northeast Florida and Southeast Georgia is a sliding cork affair, appropriately called the "float rig." It's also the inshore rig that ...

1 At Big Pier 60 in Clearwater, mangrove snapper, speckled trout and whiting have been the most consistent this week. A 37-inch snook was caught at night during the weekend and a few sheepshead around ...

Maybe if you turned back newspaper pages — and turned back lots of 'em — you’d see mentions of somethings called a “Split-tail Beetle,” and “Lucky 13” and “Devil’s Horse.” Oh, not turning back to what ...