For many anglers, our fascination with fishing began at an early lake. Whether we fished a creek, a pond, a lake, or a river, there isn’t much that compares to getting a bite, setting the hook, reeling in, and watching your catch come to the surface. For many of us, that first catch came while …
Aaron Schultz
A Quality Spinning Reel at a Reasonable Price For the past several months, I have joking called the Shimano Sedona Spinning Reel “Old Faithful” for the simple reason that if I go fishing, it’s going with me. In reality, it has become a genuine staple of my fishing collection. In fact, I can’t think of …
So let’s play out a hypothetical dream scenario… Imagine you are an avid angler (which we already know you are). You have been hunting down a state record fish for over half your life (which we already know you have). On a cool Sunday in mid-December, you hit the water, just as you have countless …
On February 28th, 2020, after three days of intense and competitive fishing on Florida’s Harris Chain, two anglers from a mid-sized university in Nacogdoches, Texas, emerged victorious as FLW’s College National Champions. This victory — arguably a seminal triumph in both a young angler’s life and fishing career — should have been the catalyst that …
Over the past couple years, there have been several notable stories of anglers who may have caught a state record fish but didn’t have a scale on hand. Zack Hall had a potential contender for Ohio’s longstanding state record muskie on Piedmont Lake in 2018. In 2019, it was Demetrio Ascioti who caught a potential …
In the social media age, stories can spread like wildfire. That phenomenon just happens to become a lot cooler when its a good fishing story that takes off! And speaking of good fishing stories… A Big Blue Cat, Gone Viral Around 2:00 P.M. on Saturday, March 28, Mike Mitchell of Russellville, Alabama, posted a few …