Welcome back to Bank Fishing Blueprint, the weekly AllOutdoor series focused on helping anglers find and catch more fish from the bank. Last week, we covered how picking the right angle on your cast can keep your bait working the strike zone the whole retrieve instead of just clipping the edge of...
Oliver Ngy does not fish the way most anglers do, and that is the point. At 41, the California native has built a name as a big-bass specialist by refusing to run anyone else’s program. Toss him into unfamiliar water and he’ll tie on something twice the size of what’s working �...
UPDATE>Jensen v. ATFFACTS> CLICKBAIT. There’s a lot of misinformation circulating about the recent NDTX ruling in Jensen v. ATF; including a headline claiming, “ATF is Furious and We Are Planning Brutal Revenge on Gun Owners.” The source? You guessed it: unnamed anonymou...
Strike Footwear, the official footwear of the International Game Fish Association (IGFA), has brought out the new Silvertip Drift Boat Shoes, a classic boat shoe reimagined for the modern offshore life. These new boat shoes blend the classic stylings of boat shoes with modern footwear innovation ...
Where regulations allow it, fishing two baits, lures, or flies on a single line lets you cover two depths of the water column at once and figure out what the fish are eating far faster than swapping offerings one at a time. Done right, it can double your catch rate, and on the best days […]...
For much of the last century, the alligator gar carried a reputation that got it killed on sight. Anglers across its range treated the armor-plated, toothy giant as a nuisance that ate bass, crappie, and every other fish worth catching. That view has flipped. The species now has a cult following ...
Dove hunting rewards two skills above all others: knowing where the birds want to be, and putting a fast-moving target in your pattern. Get both right and you can have steady action for weeks. Get them wrong and you burn through three boxes of shells with little to show for it. This guide covers ...
A spur-of-the-moment catfish trip on the Ohio River turned into a state record and a potential five-figure payday for Tyler Harmon of Ravenswood, West Virginia. According to Field & Stream, Harmon was out with his dad and 4-year-old son last month, hoping to land a small cat his boy could ree...
Ben Erb of Bemidji, Minnesota, already held his state’s catch-and-release record for bowfin. On July 3, he beat it with a fish caught just a half inch longer than the one he landed the summer before. A Backwater He Knew Well Erb, a 31-year-old graduate fisheries biologist researcher at Bemi...
The argument can be made that the Germans make the world’s best engineers. By way of evidence I would submit the StG44 assault rifle, the Me 262 jet fighter, and the Panther tank. While, in each case, the exigencies of around-the-clock bombing certainly took a toll on these revolutionary weapon...