You’ll get no argument from me that not only is bottom fishing on the tamer side of Chesapeake Bay angling, it can also be at times outright boring. It doesn’t take a whole lot of skill, effort or ...

Going after heavyweight striped bass at Beaver Lake is a challenge for any angler. The ultimate test is catching these finned torpedoes with a fly rod. A striper weighing in the range of 20 pounds is ...

With 14 lines astern of Brook’s Hooks, Capt. Bud Harrison Jr.?s boatout of Tilghman Island, we were bound to catch something. We did. But catching and keeping are two different things as we found out ...

No saltwater gamefish is more associated with fall than the striped bass. From late September through the winter months, the migration pushes thousands of these fish down the coast from north of New ...

Striped bass have an appetite for minnows. Aaron Jolliff at Hook, Line and Sinker in Rogers said brood minnows work best, but stripers are biting minnows of any size at least 25 feet deep. Best ...

WE'VE HAD a close friend and fishing buddy for decades, Carl Geraci, now of Alabama but formally from Portsmouth. Carl used to live on the shore of Great Bay in Eliot, Maine, and moved to Alabama when ...