Inshore: Home Schooled Fishing
You may have recently become home headmaster, so keep physical education in mind.
Features
Surf: Time to Go Light
Take advantage of the current crop of small stripers by scaling down your tackle and having fun catching them.
Savage Gear Sandeel & Heavy Sandeel
Whether jigging a deep channel, or casting to heavyweight pelagics, there is a Savage Sandeel size and color to fit your needs.
Tackle Tip: Scents Make Sense
The whole premise of the scented bait has been adopted with open arms along the Mid-Atlantic and Northeast coasts.
Freshwater: Opening Day, My Way
Whether you join the crowd, or go it alone, just be sure to get out and fish!
Inshore: Salty Texas & Carolina Rigs
Each rigging method offers a different retrieve action so the angler can imitate a wide variety of lifelike bait antics.
Surf: Hear, See and Smell
Information gained by exercising this mantra is the most real-time data there is.
Worldcat 325 CC Review
One of the hallmark features of catamaran style hulls is the amount of added acreage onboard compared to their monohull cousins.
BDV Spotlight: a New Look at Sea Girt Reef
A continuing series here at The Fisherman looks at side-scan prospecting for good structure.
The Annual Run: Migration & Bait Cues for Striped Bass
Whether you fish by boat or by beach, adapting to the menu can help lead to seasonal success.
Pre-game Prep: Back-bay Fluke Tips
With the May 22 kickoff fast-approaching in New Jersey, the time has come for tactical planning.
Improvise & Adapt: Add a Baitholder to Circle Hooks
How to tweak the shaft of your circle hooks for the spring run of stripers on bloodworms.
Off & Runnin’: Spring Stripers in Connecticut
Tracking Long Island Sound’s early-season stripers from west to east both from shore and by boat.
Spring Salmon: The Other Native
Not as widely distributed as they once were, Atlantic salmon can be found in both lakes and streams of New England.
Surf Sense: Bucktailing Beyond Montauk
Considered a staple at the so-called ‘Surfcasting Capital of the World’, outside of Montauk surfcasters have been slow to adopt the simple bucktail for open-surf use.
From One Bass to Another: Salty Lures in Sweet Water
More than a few of those lures in your surf bag just might score you that personal-best largemouth bass this season.
