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 ...

Ask Ed Lombardo about the best striped bass he’s ever caught on a flyrod and you can almost hear the snapshots of moments clattering through his memory. The stories generally all start in the same ...

The "big baits catch big fish" theory sometimes flies right out the window when it comes to catching striped bass at Beaver Lake. Chasing stripers that weigh 20 to 30 pounds is enough of a challenge.

FLY fishermen who live handy to New England’s tidal waters are lucky, for when mayfly hatches dwindle on their favorite trout streams they can fill the hot-weather gap of July and August with the ...

Catching a tautog, also called a blackfish, on a fly rod is no easy feat. You usually find the fish around rocks and boulders 20 to 30 feet down. The bite turns on when the current is moving, so it ...

"The Morning Hatch" is a daily dose of anything fly fishing, human interest, and sometimes from left field. It will be short, sweet, informative, and hopefully entertaining. Enjoy it as a morning ...

Last week, the Rhode Island Saltwater Anglers Association seminar on striped bass featured "Old Salts and Young Guns" who spoke about the strategies and tactics they used to catch trophy stripers.

I’m paraphrasing here, but I get this a lot via DM and email: _Hey Joe, I’m headed to the beach with the family this summer and I want to catch striped bass . Where should I go and what should I bring ...

In a previous life he’d been a dry fly snob who was decent at his game, and the thought of casting a treble-hooked plug at a fish was completely foreign and repugnant to him. I told him I might be ...