The most useful and versatile inshore terminal-tackle rig in Northeast Florida and Southeast Georgia is a sliding cork affair, appropriately called the "float rig." It's also the inshore rig that ...

guides these days, Tom Sadler likes to boost his clients’ chances of catching trout by having them fish with two flies instead of one. He sets them up with the kind of rig known as dry dropper: one ...

Old ways die hard, especially when they work as well today as they did 50 years ago. And for Jacksonville's Bill Parker, using the tried-and-proven regional angling method of "float fishing" is the ...

After several weeks of high flows on local rivers, runoff has peaked and trout streams in the Vail and Roaring Fork valleys are clear and dropping. Because rivers such as the Colorado, Eagle and ...

One of the best ways to catch fish, for the next few months especially but even year-round, is with the old standard shad dart and minnow below a float. I caught my largest pond pickerel, weighing ...

Before I even had a chance to bait my T-Turn bait rig, Antonio was already landing the first lake trout of the day! With our T-Turn bait rigs, we've baited them up with live minnows and we're slowly ...

What is a Slip Bobber Rig? A slip bobber rig requires a few key components to tie everything together, but the star of the show - and what gives this rig its name - is a float (bobber) that has a hole ...

In-line spinners, spoons, and hardbaits get all the love in the trout game, and rightfully so. These lures have been punishing browns, rainbows, and brookies for many decades. As the old adage goes, ...

No matter how you like to catch trout, opportunities abound in September. Fly and spin anglers are catching nice rainbows and browns on the Boise, Owyhee and Wood river systems. Spinners, spoons, ...

Fishing the Patapsco River at the border of Howard and Baltimore counties, I often encountered the smiling face of Roland Avery, as effective a trout fisherman as I’ve ever met. Over the years I used ...

Many spin fishermen hunt for trout in smaller, wade-friendly streams and rivers. These waters are usually pretty easy to dissect, meaning you’re targeting specific runs, holes, and pockets within them ...