Lake shorelines, on the other hand, become buffet lines for feeding fish. I have observed everything in a lake feeding with reckless abandon during periodic cicadas, including carp, stripers, and catfish of all kinds. You don’t often think of these stripers and catfish as bug eaters, ...
No problem, head to a nearby pond, lake, or stream and try your luck. You can even do it from a kayak if you want. The most important thing is to locate where the fish are and find the best way to approach them. Prepare for hard hits and a harder fight.When in attack mode, Ba...
For those heading upriver, light leadhead jigs with white or off-white curl-tail grubs selected to fish just inches above the bottom will produce well, as will grey and/or olive streamers fished on fly gear. Anglers remaining on the upper ends of the main lake on the Leon River or Cowh...
“Being able to see my line is important, so a hi-vis mono is mostly what I use. And so fish won’t see or shy from it, I always employ a fluorocarbon leader,” he explains. “My preferred monos are Berkley Trilene XL for trout—as it’s smooth casting—and the tougher, more ...
River run stripers offer their own unique set of challenges for the angler, and definitely for the guide. When someone gets in my boat for a day of striper fishing, one of the first things I try to explain is where these fish like to hold. I tell them to start out like they are ...
open water. It is more or less a necessity in ice fishing, and a choice when fishing in open water. It’s especially useful when game fish are bunched up or in schools. This is common with pure-strain and hybrid stripers,white bass,crappies, largemouth and spotted bass, and other ...
For lake and reservoir fishing, many anglers turn to the crankbait. The action of acrankbaitmimics the action of a realistic wounded smaller fish, and — once in the water — it appears to be an easy, free lunch for predatory fish. It can be fished on a steady reel or in a more jer...