Fishing Tips and Techniques

The triangle between Stony Point to Sandy Pond to the Main Duck offers the greatest fishing triangle of the Eastern Basin of Lake Ontario. This is 100 square miles providing the finest fishing hotspots in the most beautiful Lake of the Great Lakes. Boating out of Henderson Harbor you pass the high rises of the [...]

You see them all day long, running at top speed, back and forth, up and down the lake. Then at weigh-in, you hear the same guys, moaning and groaning about the lack of fish and overall bad luck. Everywhere they went they couldn’t find fish. They had a good early bite but after they left [...]

The Stamp River is one of British Columbia’s top producers of steelhead, and chinook salmon. Two things that make the Stamp unique – the early arrival of large numbers of steelhead and huge returns of chinook salmon. Unlike many other rivers, the Stamp has only two seasons of interest to avid anglers – fall/ winter [...]

Deep beneath the swirling currents of a north Pacific rip tide, a salmon lies, waiting for his next meal. The mature chinook is a voracious eating machine, intent upon loading up on calories. Twenty feet above, a sparkling chrome flasher trailing a plastic hoochie, passes by. That’s not food. He’s not remotely interested. Next, a [...]

When a sudden rise in water level occurs after several months of dry weather, anglers can count on the bass moving shallow. It’s amazing how quickly things can change. One week southern cattle ranchers are praying for rain to nurture parched hay meadows, and the next they’re begging for someone to plug the faucet so [...]

As the leaves begin to turn into their autumn glory many anglers hang up their fishing poles in favor of their favorite deer rifle or their bow and hit the woodlots in search of the wily whitetail. For the die-hard bass fisherman the approaching weeks mark one of the best times of the year to [...]

The problem with finding a great fishing spot is that once it’s discovered the word quickly gets out and your little secret turns into a tourist trap. Many avid anglers have a tough time deciding where to spend their weekends or fishing vacations so they can still find abundant fish and not feel like they [...]

When it comes to fond fishing memories, none can overshadow the all those frying-size fiddler cats caught on a lazy summer day spent navigating the Angelina River in deep East Texas. Best I can remember, it was August of 2009 when my good friend called to invite me along on the day-long float. We were [...]

Bass fishermen are among the world’s greatest scientists. Like weekend hot rodders prepping their small blocks for test and tune night at the local strip, bass anglers have been known to perform countless experiments – both radical and mild – on tackle and gear in hopes of coming up with the right combination to add [...]