Shoreline anglers have to do some long-distance casting to get at migrating shad. That makes the use of certain types of equipment, lighter lines and better casting skills a must. One of the main ...

Alan Battista’s garage manufactured Chesapeake Rig is a collection of heavy wire, glass beads, swivels, soft plastic shad bodies and bucktail jig heads. As the waters of the Chesapeake Bay cool down ...

I checked the bean trees across my driveway this week and the purple blooms are just coming out. This means one big thing for me. It s time for a shad fishing trip on the Roanoke. The great thing ...

When water temperatures drop and schools of shad grow scarce, bass enthusiasts targeting the heaviest fish switch to an umbrella rig that imitates a small cloud of shad to turn the bite on. The best ...

Florida’s winters draw thousands of visitors hoping to lure 10-pound-plus female largemouth bass from their spawning beds. But, almost unnoticed, a smaller cadre slips across the border, headed for ...

After Andy Poss, of Muscle Shoals, invented the Alabama Rig in 2010 and bass pro Paul Elias won a major FLW event with it at Guntersville in 2011, many anglers predicted the rig would be the end of ...

I checked the bean trees across my driveway this week and the purple blooms are just coming out. This means one big thing for me. It s time for a shad fishing trip on the Roanoke. The great thing ...