Going after heavyweight striped bass at Beaver Lake is a challenge for any angler. The ultimate test is catching these finned torpedoes with a fly rod. A striper weighing in the range of 20 pounds is ...

PAGE, Ariz. – Two distinct patterns are now in place making it much easier for anglers to find stripers. Striped bass adults are hungry for shad that hide in the backs of coves and canyons. Shad are ...

PAGE, Ariz. — Stripers and shad are in transition mode again. “Slurps”, where stripers casually eat tiny shad and ignore most angler offerings, are coming to an end. Shad have grown some, but more ...

Saltwater striped bass aren’t very hard to catch. Many “Insta-famous” anglers and striped bass fishing influencers want you to think otherwise, but the reality is that the most difficult part of the ...

Think safety first when it comes to winter fishing. Beware of ice on boat ramps during subfreezing temperatures. Watch for ice that may form in the backs of coves. Smaller lakes may freeze completely ...

I'm not sure why I associate the first cold snap that signals winter isn't that far off with fishing for stripers. But I bet it had something to do with the first time I ventured into the Palmetto ...

Dan Wilson spends a lot of time reading other peoples' diaries. He's not looking for juicy secrets. More like fishy facts. As the fisheries biologist who manages Smith Mountain Lake, Wilson has been ...

Old timers can remember the glory days of striped bass fishing at Smith Mountain Lake, when large schools of fish fed on the surface, tossing water as high as July corn. At night, the stripers would ...

Compiled by California Outdoors Hall of Fame member Dave Hurley and edited by Roger George, who guides in the greater Fresno area and holds the striper record at Millerton Lake. In the northern ...

Forty feet down, however, the sonar told a different story. Schools of fish teemed, appearing as orange darts streaking among the ghosts of the intact houses and trees left behind when this ...

Compiled by California Outdoors Hall of Fame member Dave Hurley and edited by Roger George, who guides in the greater Fresno area and holds the striper record at Millerton Lake. In the northern ...