Today I'd like to show you a perfect and easy way to rig up a plastic shad. A properly rigged shad will provide you with ...

When you absolutely, positively have to catch a fish, live bait is the only way to go, period. While artificial lures are variously new, improved, or otherwise hyped worldwide, the lowly worm and its ...

Alan Battista’s garage manufactured Chesapeake Rig is a collection of heavy wire, glass beads, swivels, soft plastic shad bodies and bucktail jig heads. As the waters of the Chesapeake Bay cool down ...

When water temperatures drop and schools of shad grow scarce, bass enthusiasts targeting the heaviest fish switch to an umbrella rig that imitates a small cloud of shad to turn the bite on. The best ...

Long before forward-facing sonar was the hot button issue in fishing, the Alabama rig was causing waves for many of the same ...

Fishing for striped bass is steadily improving. Jon Conklin, fishing guide, said a good area to try is the south part of the lake between Horseshoe Bend park and Friendship Creek. Brood minnows or ...

Pete Wenners at Pete's Professional Guide Service recommends using crank baits, spinner baits or Ned rigs along points. Start ...

I checked the bean trees across my driveway this week and the purple blooms are just coming out. This means one big thing for me. It s time for a shad fishing trip on the Roanoke. The great thing ...

Oct. 6—As overnight temperatures cool, bass action begins to heat up on local waters large and small. The fish are easing their way into their annual fall pattern, signaling one of the hottest times ...

It’s the subtleties that can make the difference between catching no shad and potentially one worth about $20,000 this week in the Easton-Phillipsburg area. The 14th annual Bi-State Shad Fishing ...