Trying to narrow down hundreds of striped bass lures to the top 25 is like trying to name the 25 best rock songs of all time. The list changes based on countless variables, like time, place, ...

Anglers in pursuit of striped bass face an almost overwhelming choice of lures to catch them. But, you only need a few lures to reliably catch stripers. In fact, you might be a bit underwhelmed if you ...

Today we have a nice chop on the water, and we are running the MoJo Macky top water lures, and Ivo is tipping his with an Eye ...

It's not often that everything breaks right for weekend fishermen, but that was exactly the case today as last night's northwest wind knocked down the big swell and calmed down after a cool start to ...

We find ourselves back in the saltwater, this time using top water plugs targeting striper and bluefish. For attached your ...

Targeting striped bass with top water lures in an urban setting. On this edition of the Journal, we target striped bass with top water lures in an urban setting. In “Gear Time,” our anglers discuss ...

A bunch of us were sitting around a table in the corner of the dining room at the Norden Club in Black Rock one warm night last summer when, not surprisingly, the talk turned to catching -- or, more ...

When a striper swirls on the surface, creating a hole as big as a bushel of apples, you have to believe it’s a big striper. Particularly in cool autumn waters when the striper tries to throw the hook ...

Editor's note: Flip Putthoff, who compiles the weekly fishing report, is on vacation. Here is last week's report. Early morning and late evening are the times to be fishing, said Jon Conklin, fishing ...

The water on Lake Ouachita was calm on that September morning, so my son Matt, my friend Bobby Graves and I had no difficulty seeing big schools of shad churning the surface in several locations. One ...