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It has been said that striped bass fisheries management is a marathon, not a sprint. But if it is, there are hordes of spectators along the route throwing tomatoes and eggs at the participants. Occasionally a rock goes sailing through the air, too. And all the while most of those much-maligned managers are genuinely focused on how to best utilize…
June 6, 2026
If you’re a trailer-boater, there’s no doubt that you’ve had the experience of driving home with wet feet. Trying to hitch the winch strap to the boat while doing a trailer balance-beam routine will…
June 5, 2026
Frogs were always a largemouth bass lure, until they weren’t. Well, they do still catch plenty of bass. But these days in the FishTalk zone of coverage more people fish them because they’re an…
June 4, 2026
Join us on the first Thursday of each month at 6 p.m. for new episodes of LIVE with Lenny. Tune in for an interactive live stream with Angler in Chief Lenny Rudow where he discusses various seasonal…
February 25, 2025
I’ve been kayak fishing for some time with friends who also fish from various brands of kayaks, who all have different skill sets and styles of fishing. But one thing I’ve found that we all have in…
February 23, 2025
You want to be able to cast a rod one day and run a trot-line for crabs with ease the next. You like to cruise down the highway to distant hotspots and enjoy easy towing, launching, and loading. You…
February 21, 2025
White perch are the Rodney Dangerfields of the fish world. Even though they fight hard and taste great, they don’t get no respect. Yes they’re small and no they’re not colorful, but when pursued with…
February 19, 2025
Fishing reefs attract a lot of attention, but natural features abound in the Chesapeake Bay. The Susquehanna’s riverbeds snaked their way around many ridges as they cut their way through the coastal…
February 17, 2025
Upriver the pickerel are pouncing and downriver the redfish are raging. Bass are biting and crappie are cavorting, even as bluefish are busting and croaker are crushing it. When you’re an angler…
February 14, 2025
If you enjoy kayak fishing you can load that kayak on top of your car or shove it into the back of a pickup truck, drive to a location for the day, then drag it down to the water. But today, with…