UNION HALL - Rex Smith must be crazy. Why else would this man, whom I consider a good friend, call me Tuesday afternoon to say he was catching the heck out of stripers at Smith Mountain Lake? "You ...

THE FIRST of July has almost always been the unofficial start of the striper fishing season for the Dickstah. Although there's a scattering of fish that come in earlier, they are apt to be on the ...

Fishing umbrella rigs in shallow water pushes gear and technique to the limit. Big fish respond violently when the rig passes through the right zone. Positioning and retrieve speed matter more than ...

Where you should go: Trolling between the channels may be the surest thing after Saturday's northeaster churned the waters. What you should use: Umbrella rigs with tubes, or shad rigs if you don't ...

Live bait is best for catching striped bass. Jon Conklin, fishing guide, recommends using brood minnows or shad. The south half of the lake is best for wintertime stripers. Locate shad schools with ...

Where you should go: There were loads of big bluefish all along the Shore yesterday from near the beach out to 70 feet or more. Stripers and even weakfish were mixed in. What you should use: Jigs of ...

Today Ivo and Claudio fish for striper while fishing during some heavy winds. Claudio lands the striper with a live mackerel rig using the T-Turns. As always, good fishin'! Spain suffers second major ...