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Thu, 04/18/2013 - 11:19
Saltwater fishermen can look for a bumper crop of offshore fish again this year, according to the many captains and saltwater anglers on Mississippi’s Gulf Coast. According to Captain Lenny Maiolatesi of the Fighting Chicken, docked at Harbor Landing Marina in Ocean Springs, Miss., “If you’re going out to deep water in April, you never know what will happen, what fish will be biting, or what tackle you’ll need. We’ve learned to take all of our tackle and be ready to fish for anything. These...
Wed, 04/17/2013 - 11:22
Waders often cover so much ground that they can hardly see their boat when they turn back around. This means they’ve got to carry everything they might need with them.
Unfortunately, some anglers take this to the extreme and wind up looking like floating tackle shops. Guy Stansel with Hackberry Rod & Gun doesn’t have that problem.
"I don’t like too much stuff in the way," he said. "For example, I know a lot of people like to carry a small net, but no matter how small and convenient it might...
Wed, 04/17/2013 - 06:49
Field & Stream profiled Thomas Gibson Jr. of Houston as “Texas’ tarpon guru,” in 1991. At the time he'd caught 973 tarpon—including the Texas state record and two International Game Fish Association line-class records.
Gibson, 75, has since run his tally to more than 1,400 tarpon and counting, and he’s added a lot more noteworthy catches to his name, including several IGFA line-class records and a 230-pound tarpon caught in 1993 (pictured at bottom) that still reigns as the Louisiana state...
Tue, 04/16/2013 - 16:01
The season is short, but extremely precious. Where else can you open water fish in one of the most northern parts of the United States (bordering Canada) in March or April and dial in on big walleyes and the elusive sturgeon? If fishing the Rainy River near Baudette, Minnesota isn’t on your bucket list, it should be.
Meet Kurt Hinton and John Anderly, brothers-in-law from the Otsego/Elk River area north of the Twin Cities in Minnesota. The 60-plus year-old guys received a special Christmas gift...
Tue, 04/16/2013 - 10:52
Saltwater fishermen can look for a bumper crop of offshore fish again this year, according to the many captains and saltwater anglers on Mississippi’s Gulf Coast. To get a better perspective of what you can start catching this month, we’ve talked with Captain Bobby Williams of the Three Sons IV charter boat docked at the Biloxi Small Craft Harbor. “We should be catching redfish, king mackerel, Spanish mackerel and cobia, as well as blacktip sharks in April, if the weather continues to warm up...
Mon, 04/15/2013 - 10:45
Arizona Game and Fish Department officials announced Friday the catch of record-setting flathead catfish that weighed in at 76.52 pounds. The fish measured 53.5 inches, or nearly four-and-a-half feet, in length, and had a 34.75 inches, or nearly three feet, girth.
Eddie “Flathead Ed” Wilcoxson, 56, of Surprise, was asleep on a fold-out cot aboard his 24-foot pontoon boat early Friday on Bartlett Lake minutes before he caught the catfish that AZGFD later verified as the state’s largest....
Fri, 04/12/2013 - 14:46
The best fishing guides get results when the rest of us don't. We asked four top panfish guides to share their secret strategies for perch, crappies, and bluegills. So, listen up - school is in session.
CrappiesExpert: Captain Clint TaylorHome Base: Rend Lake, ILExperience: 6 years guiding
In a world obsessed with all things high-tech and newfangled, Illinois guide Clint Taylor prefers going old-school for spawning spring crappies. When the season’s biggest slabs are along lakeshore brush, he...
Fri, 04/12/2013 - 14:39
For the first time in history a major B.A.S.S. tournament has been won by an angler throwing a castable umbrella rig (CUR), specifically the YUMbrella Flash Mob Jr. Georgia's Patrick Bone weighed in 65-pounds, 4-ounces over the three day Southern Open tournament held April 4-6 on Tennessee's Douglas Lake.
These rigs, which feature multiple arms for the attachment of up to five jigheads rigged with swimbaits, have come under fire by many pro anglers as being too effective. Like spinnerbaits,...
Fri, 04/12/2013 - 11:19
On many waters, Mother Nature throws a monkey wrench into our plans for a worry-free April crappie-catching junket. Crappie aren’t spawning or feeding in open waters we can easily fish. Instead, they’re buried in gnarly tangles of dense cover that seem impossible to tackle. To catch these jungle fish, we must find ways to present our lures in everything from willow thickets and weed beds to stump fields and even beaver lodges.
Fishing these hideaways can be daunting, even for...
Wed, 04/10/2013 - 12:44
Well known western angler Mike Phua was on Lake Havasu practicing for a bass fishing tournament but nearly caught a world record in the process. The massive red ear sunfish he's holding in the picture weighed 5.4 pounds when they finally got it to certified scales. They weights at the time of catch would have bested the current world record for Red Ear sunfish at 5.5 pounds, also caught from Lake Havasu, but by the time they got it certified, it was down a few ounces.
It's still a pretty cool...
