May 20th, 2012 Today I had Mike, Teri and Toby Mertens along with there grandson Keaton Kurtz-Mertens out for a 4 hour boat on Lake Chelan. We did real well on the laketrout with boating eleven but the highlight of the day is when the 4 lb. Rainbow hit the surface Rod..What a Battle on [...]

Once again here in the Gulf of Chiriqui, Panama the action is absolutely on FIRE!!!! The yearly cycle of spawning bait and the following huge schools of Yellowfin Tunas is reaching it’s apex. It has come a little late this year, usually reaching it’s pinnacle in late March or April, much ...

We fished on 5-17-12 with Jon Allen, His Dad Bill, Phil ,Jack G ,Jack K and Chris (Monkey). We arrived outside the inlet at 6:30 and started trolling 2.5 miles NE of the inlet 52 degrees and clean water there were a few birds picking and we were marking bait scattered in the area we [...]

May 18th, 2012 Another Very Productive day of Laketrout Fishing on Lake Chelan..We started our adventure along the South Shoreline in the Lower Basin and ended on Mack Bar!!! We Boated 11 Laketrout in 4 hours and had numerous other Bites. The Ace Hi-Fly by Silverhorde along with the Invisaswivels in ...

In case you’re keeping score at home, Strike King’s latest deep-diving crankbait has won anglers more than $250,000 in B.A.S.S. tournaments alone — in less than two months. The 6XD (Series 6, eXtra Deep) was pivotal for Jeremy Starks as he long-lined his way to a $100,000 pay day (part of which ...

For some reason, novelists and fishing just seem to go together in Florida (see: Hemingway, Ernest), and a mystery writer based out of Sanibel Island is taking on the tarpon tournament circuit. Randy Wayne White, author of Sanibel Flats, and others, also happens to be an owner of  Doc Ford Rum Bar ...

Last week, Matthew Faulkner headed to Specimen Lake, located in the Mill Farm complex in West Sussex, England. Unable to coerce any bites, he met up with a friend who was having great success with smaller fish at one of the neighboring lakes at Mill Farm. Faulkner’s buddy lent him one of his extra ...

We knew that this catch was destined to turn up some interesting story lines, and the folks over at Bass Parade have discovered a very interesting wrinkle. Rodney Ply landed a 68-plus-pound striped bass fishing Bull Shoals in Arkansas. Smartly, he registered for Mustad Hooks “Hook-a-Million” ...

When you think fishing in New Jersey, you usually think hitting the shore for some saltwater action, but anglers looking for a big battle might want to think a little off the grid. One of New Jersey’s best freshwater gamefish are the lowly carp, and the big ones are hitting right now. According ...

The Suncoast Kingfish Classic in Florida brings the area’s best anglers in search of monster kingfish in the Tampa Bay area, and it took anglers aboard the Walleye II to catch the new tournament record. John Thomas landed a 58.04-pound king mackerel, besting both the controversial 54-pound record ...

--Chad Love Kayak fishing and kayak duck hunting are things I've really wanted to get into for a while now. I even have dreams of taking my own do-it-yourself kayak fishing trip to the Florida Keys, Baja California, or some other storied saltwater destination. On the other hand, maybe ...

by Joe Cermele A few weeks ago I was cleaning some old junk out of the basement at my mom's place, and amid the clutter was a pile of rods wedged in the corner. Most them were beaten to death, missing guides, and not worth saving. But in the cluster were four I just had to keep, because they all represent ...

--Chad Love A Wisconsin man has shattered the state record for yellow bass after catching a (relatively speaking) massive two pound, 4.3 ounce whopper out of the Wolf River. From this story in the Green Bay Press Gazette: "...the 2-pound, 4.3-ounce yellow bass that Casey Bloom caught April 21 in ...

by David Draper Back in college, I spent one of my first federal student-aid checks on camping gear. I bet I could make a pretty convincing argument that spending the money on outdoor equipment was a better investment than paying my tuition. Or, at least, that’s how I rationalized it at the time. ...

by Kirk Deeter Most of you who follow FlyTalk might realize by now that Romano and I are both shameless streamer junkies. We'll pound the banks from a boat, trying to turn big fish with blind casts, but we also like to wade and sight-fish streamers in low, clear water. Big flies catch big fish, to be ...

Jo Green, a landscape gardener and angling fanatic from Reading, England, has set a new world record for the largest carp caught by a woman. During an April 23 trip to the Graviers, in Dijon, France, Green landed an 84-pound carp known to local anglers as The Brown One, shattering the previous record ...