Chasing blue marlin, especially in tournaments, used to mean pulling out the big guns — those big gold Penn 80s and 130s that hold a mile of monofilament and cost more than my first car. But even ...

Just a short decade ago, only a small cadre of anglers knew the secrets to consistently catching broadbill swordfish after sunrise. Sure, occasional sunning fish were caught on the surface, and the ...

Some lessons aren’t easily forgotten. This is one. One early spring day, a friend and I were fishing for largemouth bass on a small lake — fishing as opposed to catching. After four hours, having ...

Wading the surf for speckled trout and running the rivers for white bass are on opposite ends of the light-tackle line, but they share one rule: Get it while you can. Each is a huge gamble. The summer ...

Fishing with fly rod or light conventional tackle on the rivers and billabongs and seacoast off Darwin, Australia, is, in the lexicon of guides and other facilitators of sport, “A bastard of a good ...

Somewhere out there in the rough and white-capped waves of the Atlantic Ocean swims a sailfish with a special designation: the winning sailfish. For the guys fishing aboard the boat Toast, that one ...

One of the greatest joys in fishing comes from tossing small lead-head jigs partnered with 2-inch curly-tail plastics in hopes of catching crappie, perch and bluegill. When fishing with micro-light or ...

Rapala’s new Busch Light Original Giant Lure turns one of fishing’s most iconic crankbaits into a bold wall display for ...

Planning an offshore fishing trip usually means getting up before the crack of dawn, loading the boat, stopping for coffee along the way and, of course, picking up necessary bait, rigs and terminal ...

It was a fine day in late summer. My friend Lewis and I were fishing for largemouth bass on a small lake — fishing as opposed to catching. After four hours, having tried nearly every bass lure in our ...