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Known as spring tides not for the season but for their extremity, the lowest tides of the month, on the full moon, can be an enchanting time to fish for striped bass on the saltwater flats of Massachusetts. Here's one angler's South Shore kayak fishing story.

Ever went fishing only to find yourself in a tight pinch? Perhaps you forgot your tackle box, or thanks to Mother Nature, most of your tackle is hanging in a tree by mid day. Fly fishing is no exception.

Oregon has some of the best fly-fishing camps in the country and there are many places where beginners can learn this beautiful and exhilarating sport!

Fly-fishing is no longer the extravagant sport it was once. It is not only less expensive to get into but teahnology has made warmer waters available for this sport. Several options for instruction are available to Memphis residents year-round.

Wood End and Race Point at Cape Cod Ma.'s Provincetown, are reliable keeper striper hotspots so long as the water is warm, full of bait, and if the winds are down. But what about the day when the angler gets skunked?

Brewster's saltwater flats, off Cape Cod, Massachusetts, a striped bass hotpot during the spring and fall runs, are mostly inaccessible to powerboats during low water. Here's how to fish the flats from a kayak, tin skiff, or other small boat.

Black sea bass require the simplest of techniques and gear: chopped sea clams, a bank sinker and a small hook or two.

Billingsgate Shoals' striped bass feed on the area's thick biomass of sandeels. Fish the area's shallows and structures with spincast gear and trolling rigs or the wire jigs known locally as hoochies.

Rigging with soft plastics is a handy, economical way to fish for striped bass, especially from a kayak. They're easy to store and easy to make. Moreover they work on a variety of species including not only striped bass but bluefish, pollock and cod.

Flippin is a powerful bass fishing technique

In order to lure a fish into your hook, you need to use the appropriate bait; proper baiting can in the future insure you to be a strong success.

Read about how to use the 4" shad lure and a lead jighead to fish for striped bass from a kayak during the fall and spring run. Details include where to fish in the Boston area.

Between Sandwich and Barnstable, Cape Cod lies Sandy Neck, a barrier beach whose waters and shoals are rough, ridden with tidal currents, and frequently filled with bluefish. Paddling the area can make you a better kayaker and fill your fridge with fish.

There are many different types of fly fishing lures that you can use to catch fish. Some of these include grubs, jigs, spinners, and floating divers. Each one is suitable for different purposes. This article will...

An article on how to make your own fly fishing lures to help you enjoy this great hobby.

It is just after dawn on the waters off of Chatham's Monomoy Island on the elbow of Cape Cod Massachusetts. Your fishing guide is standing 6 feet above the water's surface on the polling platform of a Florida flats style shallow draft fishing boat.

One of the simplest ways to fish the tidal rip off South Monomoy Island is by drifting in the current while trolling a treble-hooked plug or swimmer. If you're not up to to paddling the entire distance, hire one of the many charter services to drop you off in the area.

An article outlining the difference between wet fly fishing flies and dry fly fishing flies.

This article helps novice fly fishermen learn about what they need to know to pick out the right fly fishing rod.

Montana has some of the best fly-fishing venues in the country. There are lots of great outfitters and guides who train the beginner how to excel at this beautiful and elegant sport.

North Dakota may not be thought of as the fly fishing capitol but there are some very well stocked lakes and streams in the state.

Fly fishing is a fun way to catch fish, partly because it is so effective. However, flies may be used with normal rods and reels as well.

You know it's a funny thing how you get started doing something, kind of the way I got started collecting antique fishing lures. When I was growing up back in the 70's in Corpus, we practically lived on the water.

Montana fly fishing and its rivers are discussed.

Plymouth Bay's most prominent feature is Browns Bank, a centuries-old shoal that lies beneath the waters of Plymouth Beach and which, at low tide rises to cover nearly a dozen dry acres. It can be a fine place to kayak surf, picnic and fish.

Kayak fishing is gaining momentum in the Gulf Coast fishing community. It is affordable with no gas, no trailer, and no annual licensing fee. Kayak fishing lets the angler get close to the fish up on the flats or further out into the bay.

A kayaker who launches into the waters off Chatham from Morris Island or Hardings Beach gains good access to the bonito grounds in northeastern Nantucket Sound off Monomoy Island.

Getting started in the quiet sport of fishing with a fly rod can be much easier with someone helping you through the process.

The variety of gear available can be daunting to a beginning fly fisherman. Here's an overview of equipment that's ideal for catching average-sized fish in the more accesible parts of a stream or river.

Is fishing the vacation for you? Fishing can be fun. Try a vacation fishing on the San Juan river in New Mexico.

Montana's South Fork of the Flathead River offers perhaps some of the best western fly-fishing in these United States.

If you like to fish and want to be a little more challenged yet still stay relaxed doing it fly fishing for bass may just be for you. If you have fly fished before you will find doing it for bass to be a little different.

Cape Cod offers many choices for a family vacation

Fishing the waters of Boston Harbor during the striped bass fall run, one writer takes his first keeper and promptly spoils it.

The northern and western shores of Cape Ann, from Annisquam to Rockport, hold large schools of stripers along rocky shorelines, within numerous inlets and coves and in the mouths of tidal rivers that empty onto large shoals.

After spending a season fishing from a commercial striped bass boat out of Gloucester, Massachusetts, here are some of the keeper tricks the writer learned.

If you have been looking around for the perfect bass fishing lure lately you have most likely discovered that there are literally thousands of colors and designs available to choose from. With so many bass fishing lures on the market how can you...

Some of the best striped bass fishing in the Northeast coastal areas can be done using this dynamite trolling technique. The method involves using a plastic "worm" that is approximately 16 inches to 18 inches long.

An anadromous, fastwater-loving fish, striped bass are drawn to the tidal Merrimack River's Joppa Flats by the flats' forage, tidal currents and mixture of structure and deep water.

Montana is a legendary fishing state, known around the world for its quiet and secluded rivers. Find out where to go and why in the in-depth article!

Using a kayak or a jonboat, the adventuresome angler can sightfish striped bass and bluefish in Duxbury Bay's intricate matrix of low-tide flats, sandbars, saltwater creeks and embayments.

Located a scant half-mile off the coast of Rockport, Massachusetts's Pebble Beach, Milk Island is a productive, lightly-pressured area to fish for striped bass during the fall run.

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The striper technique known as chum-and-chunk is dirt simple: buy a bucket of herring, chop several herring into bits, toss the bits overboard followed by a herring chunk on a bare hook.

Keeping a fishing lure in good shape is important if you want them to last and the nice thing about it is that it is not that hard to do

Find tips for spring time fishing and camping in southwest Wyoming! 2006 fishing fees and 2006-07 huting fees are provided here.

One of the most basic elements of fishing, how to tie a fishing knot, is often stumbled on by trial and error. At best, an older fisherman may teach you to use his favorite knot. Here are 8 fishing knots you'll find easy to tie and secure to use.

Flippin is a powerful bass fishing technique

Tactics for Success in Shark Fishing!