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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Besides wading in near-frozen waters and enduring a shivering winter chill, the challenge of steelheading comes down to one thing – getting a good drift. Steelhead can get very persnickety about the ...

Capt. Brian Sanders turned on the VHF radio just to make sure he wasn’t crazy. As his 24-foot Triton bay boat pounded across the whitecaps in the Gulf of Mexico, he listened to the National Weather ...

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 ...

. Soaking cut bait has a bit of a stigma of being dumbed-down fishing, but there’s actually a lot of science and technique that goes into the proper hacking, rigging, and fishing of a bloody, dripping ...