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Tackle Tip: Keeping Comfortable

Migraines, mal de mer, sore feet and cold coffee are sure ways to ruin any fishing trip; here’s a trio of tips to combat them all.

Surf: Crushing Barbs – Not Just For Schoolies

The idea of a barb is intuitive and logical, yet it doesn’t always help us land the largest of fish in the surf.

With a continued moratorium on the harvest of river herring, anglers have made a science out of fooling big bass in and around schools of tasty “bass candy” like these.

Stalking Stripers: Run and Gun Herring

Herring run methods, new and old, to put you on the stripers this month.

Although bluefish are the traditional target at the inlets in May, there’s no reason not to enjoy any stripers that might come our way.

Surf Tactics: Double Your Pleasure

Savvy casters understand that adapting your tackle and techniques to the fish you are targeting is the key to early season success.

In the Surf: It’s All About the Swing

You want your plug to look like a baitfish caught in the current and swinging naturally into fish-holding structure.

Responsible Recreation: Casting & Covid

Fishing is our privilege, don’t be the reason why it gets taken away.

Surf: Time to Go Light

Take advantage of the current crop of small stripers by scaling down your tackle and having fun catching them.

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.

Surf: Hear, See and Smell

Information gained by exercising this mantra is the most real-time data there is.

The Cinto Eel is a manageable lure to cast and fish with an eel-like swim that drives bass crazy!

2020 Plug Build: The Cinto Eel

A triple jointed eel designed by the late Charlie Cinto.

Located at the west end of East Beach, Fresh Pond Rocks is denoted by the outcropping of rocks along an otherwise featureless, sand beach.

Fresh Pond Habs

Fresh Pond Rocks denotes the beginning of the rocky, fishy structure leading west along East Beach in Charlestown, RI.

Three of the pencil poppers used by the author as discussed in the article

Topwater Tactics: Big Pencils

Whether you fish the Canal or an open beach, large pencil poppers have a way of consistently drawing strikes from cow bass.

Big bass, like this one, are harder to find in the striper surf. The author received zero confirmed reports of any fifties landed from shore in 2019.

Big Bass Monsters of Today & Tomorrow

Last year was one of social change and new values, and this season will usher in updated regulations, but where will we go from here?

How-To: Two Simple Teasers

Here’s a pair of teasers that will catch most anything in Northeast waters, whether you choose the long rod or conventional tackle.

2020 Plug Building: The 2T Pencil

The story behind and the instructions to build a lure that has reached almost mythical status in recent years up and down the Striper Coast.

The Jersey Shore surf in the post-replenishment era offers new challenges for anglers of all ages; know your beach conditions at all tidal stages and always make safety your first priority.

Mission Possible: Surfcasting for Life

Fish smarter, safer, and more successfully as you become a more seasoned surfcaster.

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