For a tackle junky like myself, there is not much better than checking out a heap of new fishing gear. Some of the best new gear appears at the Japan Fishing shows, starting with the Osaka show in February each year. The first day of this show is for the trade only, which gives a...
soaking in the Lake Champlain vibes. Take the DPC too seriously and you might miss the point, which is to have fun. Don't come the the DPC for the win...come for the experience
Dodging a few showers, that is about the longest my old body will handle the heat. The action has been best in the south end of Farm 13 (of course), but about 100 yards out from any visible surface vegetation. Please note that there is grass underwater for a LONG way out (to the...
WHERE to 'work' the frog. When rigged properly (with NO LEADER braid, more below), you can throw it into tulles and trees and brush and wait for a couple of seconds and then twitch it once or twice and hold on for a violent hit from an angry or hungry bass. Most of my hits hav...
smooth cutting action leaves the perfect amount of tippet exposed and eliminates tippet waste. Reusable from spool to spool. F0944 Small - Fits most spools from Umpqua, Cabelas and Climax F0945 Large - Fits most spools from RIO, Maxima, Scientific Angler, Orvis, Cabelas, Frog Hair and Umpqua...
My Wife and I were trolling for Kokanee Salmon. It was just before dark and we had the only boat on the water. It's a small reservoir in Montana. The water was like glass it was so calm. As we got out to the middle the water swirled next to the boat like a whale turned next...
The KVD Popping Perch changed the way anglers looked at hollow body topwaters. First, it often isn’t a frog that we’re trying to mimic. Second, what the fish see on the bottom is more important than how pretty you make the top. Third, it doesn’t matter how pretty you make a ba...
It was tough to find those holes, so you had to keep your trolling motor on high to look for them, but once you found one, it was almost guaranteed you’d catch a bass.” To target these bass, he went with a 3/8-ounce Buckeye Lures Buzzerk buzzbait with a Frog Factory ...
Bryan helped design the Air Frog, which is a plastic toad style bait that floats... Fishing for Stripers and Halibut in the San Francisco Bay I spend most of my fishing trips on the California Delta targeting largemouth, smallmouth and striped bass in the river and just to the west is ...
River Pike: A Somewhat Predictable Creature River pike are one of my favorite fish species to target on the fly, both fishing for them and guiding clients onto them, pike always give me an extra level of excitement. Rivers, compared to stillwater are mor