Bluegills get more press, but the redear sunfish, commonly called a “shellcracker” in the South, is king of the sunfish clan. The world record, a 5-pound 7-ounce specimen, was hauled from Santee-Cooper,...View article
Suspender floating often turns a tough outing into a relative success. It means a few panfish when you would have caught none, and maybe few more fish when you would have caught some. Rarely, though,...View article
On lakes with heavy recreational traffic and daytime fishing pressure, night fishing is one of the best ways to catch big walleyes. While there are many ways to catch walleyes in the dark--longline...View article
Wherever you live, summertime is sunfish time. Time to relax and take the kids out for a fun time on the water. Whether it's a farm pond, small creek, reservoir, or lake, the members of the sunfish...View article
Floats are at their best when standard presentations like crankbaits and hair jigs fail. When you know fish are in the area but can't trigger them, drift a bait downstream beneath a float. It's the...View article
Using floats is one of the simplest but most potent ways to catch more and bigger catfish. Two mistaken ideas keep most catfishermen from ever considering them. First, many people think catfish feed...View article
Last year about this time I mentioned my experiments with what I called "popper-knocker" rigging, a popular setup for speckled trout and redfish in estuaries around the Gulf Coast and Southeast Atlantic...View article
Peek into the rod lockers of top anglers and you'll spot some unusual baits, cinched up and ready to throw. Many pros rarely use a bait they haven't tuned. Tinkering ranges from minor alterations like...View article
Whether you call them bobbers, corks, or strike-detecting-livebait-suspending apparatuses, there's no denying that they're tools that serve us well when it comes to positioning baits in precise locations...View article
