by Frank Sargeant | Dec 18, 2019 | Fishing, Product Reviews
It’s a big ocean out there. And as many beginning offshore skippers soon discover, finding pelagic fish in all that blue water sometimes makes locating that elusive needle in the haystack look simple. There are only so many hours in a fishing day and it takes lots of...
by Frank Sargeant | Aug 29, 2019 | Fishing
Anglers who chase giant spotted sea trout are specialists who know how to catch speckled trout, and who view the lunkers as a whole other species from the 15 to 20 inches that make most of us happy flopping in the cooler. They chase the biggest fish in different...
by Frank Sargeant | Jun 26, 2019 | Fishing, Uncategorized
Orange Beach and Gulf Shores are known as beach towns that attract families from far beyond Alabama, but the area is also an angling mecca, particularly famed for fast action on red snapper during the short but very productive season. While red snapper get a lot of...
by Frank Sargeant | Jun 20, 2019 | Fishing
On the east side of the Chandeleur Islands is a thin rim of beach facing the open Gulf of Mexico. On the west side, thousands of acres of shallow grass flats and sand holes where sea trout, redfish, flounder and other inshore species thrive in numbers unimagined in...
by Frank Sargeant | Apr 17, 2019 | Fishing
A whole generation of anglers is growing up unaware of the potential of fishing pork rind baits when used as an added attraction for a wide variety of artificial lures. The undulating strips worked a strange magic on generations of both freshwater and saltwater fish,...