Struggling to pick the best lure? Learn 8 key factors, from species and water temperature to cover and depth. Boost your catch rate and confidence on the water.

Primary Targets: Striped bass, snook, bull redfish A great all-around popper, this lure is strong enough to tangle with big fish as well as perform in open or sheltered waters.

Those conventional bass guys have a lot of knowledge and skill. Paying attention to how they catch bass can pay dividends for fly anglers.

The jerbait is a classic lure design that's effective for a wide variety of species. Here's our guide on how to fish a jerkbait like a pro.

"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 ...

My favorites back home are humpback grouper, threadfin, and striped mullet. In the absence of access to quality fishmongers, any sort of fresh, white-fleshed fish works well for this technique.

But anglers worry that the fishway will allow predators, particularly striped bass, to disrupt the steelhead haven that exists upstream.

Anglers looking to keep a striped bass from the Delaware River or estuary have a narrower slot of how big one can be for harvest, under Pennsylvania regulations proposed to be finalized.

JUST OUT OF REACH Dave Cisek feels like he's "part of nature" on his kayak. At right, he holds up a striped bass he caught in mid-June while fishing in the Long Island Sound outside Smithtown Bay ...

As California pumps water south, an elaborate operation focuses on rescuing fish. Lately, more fish have been arriving, forcing the state to pump less water.

In this edition of The Morning Hatch: - I have a Tiger Fish trip to South Africa coming up in Sept. This will be a first for me, so I'm especially interested in articles about the "How-tos" of fly ...