Freshwater Fishing
Tip of the day
Mike and Freddie McMullen were making impressively long casts most of the day with minimum weight on the ends of their lines. I finally caught on to what they were doing.[…]
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Freshwater Fishing
Brothers in arms
Mike “Road Kill” McMullen, 52, and his brother Freddie, 54, grew up in Treasure Island, essentially an island formed by Bayou DeSiard (pronounced DE zeerd) and Black Bayou, on the northern outskirts of Monroe, Louisiana.[…]
Freshwater Fishing
The Thunder Cork
Freddie McMullen’s fertile mind has spawned a rattling cork specially designed for bream and crappie fishing. Dubbed the “Thunder Cork,” it features tiny BBs in two glass tubes firmly affixed to opposite sides of the cork.[…]
Inshore Fishing
Captain uses two tools to stay on the shallow rig bite
One of the more challenging aspects of fishing shallow-water rigs is keeping your boat in the right spot to stay on a hot bite.[…]
Freshwater Fishing
Bream recipe
There’s a long list of how to prepare fish to eat. But one of the oldest and most popular is whole-fried bream. Many people grew up eating them this way.[…]
Inshore Fishing
Three tips for finding shell beds
Finding shell beds around rigs isn’t all that difficult to do as long as you know a few tricks. John Falterman says these three tips for finding them will quickly put you on the fish.[…]
Freshwater Fishing
10 tips for finding and catching more bream
Bream are by the far the most plentiful fish and easiest to catch. You don’t even need a boat in many lakes and ponds. Almost every area body of water has bream in it and we have all kinds — bluegills. chinquapins, sunfish, goggle-eyes and all kinds of hybirds.[…]
Inshore Fishing
Make a drop shot rig
Drop shot rigs came to the United States by way of Japanese anglers who settled on the West Coast. They employed the technique with great success in the clear, deep bass reservoirs of California and was other anglers caught on to the tactic, it spread faster than a Western wildfire, pun intended.[…]
Fishing
Tippets
June is the best month for CCA members looking to place an entry in the STAR tournament Fly Rod Division. As summer wears on and water temperatures rise, bigger specks become more selective and more difficult to catch on flies.[…]
Bass Fishing
Chunk and wind only?
Generally speaking, a buzzbait is a “chunk and wind” lure. You throw it out and reel it in just fast enough to keep it on the surface. Taylor has also had success in retrieving the lure in a jerking motion. If the fish are a bit sluggish, that sometimes triggers a strike better than a straight retrieve.[…]
Bass Fishing
Gear “Taylored” for the buzz blitz
Dale Taylor knows exactly what he wants in his hands when he starts buzzing big bass. He starts with a seven foot Abu Garcia Veritas medium action rod matched out with a Lew’s 6.5:1 baitcaster.[…]
Bass Fishing
Big bass in June?
No question about it, largemouth bass are bigger in the springtime, especially the females which are chocked full of eggs before the spawn. But big bass bite in the summer, too. And they are no lightweights.[…]
Bass Fishing
Slow up for the blow up
Frog fishing, like all topwater tactics, rewards diligent casting with that pulse-pounding surface assault. Whether it’s a walking frog or a popper, we watch that steady motion like a birddog on point, hoping with clinched jaw and held breath that the next movement of that plastic nose will detonate the explosive charge.[…]
Inshore Fishing
Red snapper infested in Gulf this month
If you want to get a friend or child interested in fishing, what’s one of the best things to do? Take them bream fishing. Just about anywhere there’s a puddle in the state, there are bream.[…]
Inshore Fishing
Rig it: Proper red snapper gear major help
No matter what species of fish you’re targeting, matching up your rod, reel and line not only helps you get more bites, it’ll help you land more fish.[…]
Inshore Fishing
The birth of Versamaxx
The Versamaxx Coastal Popping Cork System is the brainchild of Steve Kissee, aided and abetted by fishing buddy Brian Guidry. […]