At Chris Baliban’s bait and tackle shops, two workers can cover the 9-to-5 shift. But Baliban always has three people on the job when things really start hopping. That’s from midnight to 4 a.m. on ...

The process of catching, ­transporting and curing live bait is a time-consuming and ­laborious task, but the results of ...

The balloon slowly started to move away from the stern of the boat. It didn’t race away with the spool spinning and the reel making that high-pitched complaint it usually does...the red ball just ...

Live-baiting for marlin can often produce bites from the biggest blues and blacks in the neighborhood. This is important if you’re fishing in a tournament where catching numbers of smaller fish on ...

One of the things that make striped bass such popular targets along the coast from New England to the Mid-Atlantic is their diversity. You can find them picking off crabs and shrimp along back bay sod ...

Last Sunday morning I put a few calls out to tackle shops in New Jersey inquiring if any striper blitzes were rupturing the ...

The most talked about largemouth and smallmouth bass fishing lure — the A-rig — quietly has earned space in the tackle boxes of veteran Smith Mountain guide Dale Wilson. Just so everyone knows what we ...

Looking for ideas on how to rig your boat for striped bass fishing at Smith Mountain Lake and beyond? Members of the Smith Mountain Striper Club plan to have a variety of boats of different styles and ...