Slab crappies are meat eaters—sure enough minnow munchers. They take artificials well at times, especially jigs—but big crappie will turn their noses at even the best of the best crappie lures.

Warm days of early fall are well behind us and the leaves have fallen, but there is still a lot of good fishing to be had in ...

Yahir Leon of Coyote Bait in Morgan Hill reported a consistent perch surf bite from Santa Cruz to Watsonville if the water ...

Delta stripers, bass and sturgeon bites good, Alan Fong said. Don Pedro trout biting, Aaron Jones reported. Isabella bass and ...

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Josh reports the mangrove snapper and hogfish bite offshore is as good as it gets. He’s been fishing in 20 to 40 feet of ...

Fly reels used to play second fiddle to rods, at least in the fly-fishing world. Volumes have been written about the nuances of bamboo, fiberglass, and graphite fly rods. But the reel? “It’s just a ...

Well folks, this is the Thanksgiving issue of Scales and Tales. The first thing to do is to tell everyone how thankful I am ...