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New Fishing Gear, Summer 2025
Whether you're fishing a lake for crappie or casting on the Bay for cobia, as summer approaches there's no doubt you'll be hoping to find some cool new fishing gear. And this sumer, there's a bunch - here are our latest picks. FishLab BBZ Hard Swimbait The FishLab BBZ Hard Swimbait looks so good, you'll be tempted to toss it into the frying pan…
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Grady-White Canyon 306: New and Improved
May 28, 2025
All the way back in 2006 Grady-White reinvented one of its eminently popular center console boats, the Bimini 306, and it became the Canyon 306. Large enough to take on just about anything the…
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Cell Phone Holders for Kayaks: Hold On, Don't Hang Up!
May 26, 2025
Oops, darn, and crap are some of the nicer comments I have heard from friends over the years when they dropped a cellphone off their fishing kayak. Back in the day when a few raindrops would wreak…
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Ask an Expert: Redfish in the Shallows with Capt. Jonathan Bland
May 21, 2025
You say you enjoy fishing the shallows for puppy drum? Well, of course you do! This month we talk with Captain Jonathan Bland of Bay Bound Guide Service about catching reds in shoal water. Capt.…
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Climate Change and the Chesapeake Bay
August 30, 2023
Greetings fellow FishTalkers, I hope you’ve been having an awesome summer of fishing and are as excited as I am at the prospect of fall Chesapeake Bay fishing, angling on the Atlantic Ocean, and…
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New Fishing Gear from Minn Kota, FORLOH, and Plano
August 28, 2023
Summer may be coming to a close, but there was so much hot new fishing gear introduced in 2023 that we still haven't worked out way through it all. Check out these three top picks next! Quest for…
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Fishing Kayak Care and Maintenance
August 26, 2023
As an angler my biggest asset for a successful outing is my kayak. Taking proper care will insure years of fun fishing on the water. Whether you’ve invested a few thousand dollars or a few hundred in…
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Jigging on Bottom: Mastering the Bounce
August 24, 2023
It’s the most common mistake I see people make aboard my boat: when told the fish are hugging bottom, they cast out and then retrieve without knowing exactly where in the water column their jig is.…
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Pursuit S 248: Hot Pursuit
August 22, 2023
Some center console fishing boats are well engineered but poorly built, some are poorly engineered but well built, and some boats just plain take your breath away. You think you can find a single…
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Return of the Weakfish…?
August 20, 2023
Weakfish, also known as yellow fin sea trout and gray trout, have not been a big part of Chesapeake Bay fishing in recent decades. In the past few seasons, however, growing numbers have popped up in…
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