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Gear built to make bottomfishing easier

With lighter, tougher, more sensitive and less expensive fishing gear, extreme bottomfishing is getting a lot easier. The ...
Tip-ups probably account for the majority of pike caught through the ice. Countless others are caught incidentally by anglers in pursuit of perch, walleyes or crappies. But jigging is an exciting and ...
Trolling live skipjacks for black marlin on Panama’s Hannibal Bank turned out to be a little too slow for Lorton Mitchell, a West Coast angler from San Diego, California, so he decided to move up to ...
Jigs are one of the most popular and effective bass lures. The wide variety of styles—finesse jigs, football jigs, and hair jigs, to name a few—make them an extremely versatile bait. However, the ...
It's a great, but cold day out here on the water. We're rigged up with Flexi-Jigs and fishing along the rocky bottom for walleye! What we're going to be doing today, is running a chartreuse flexi jig ...
Team Big Game poses with some of the fish they caught using the slow-pitch jigging fishing technique to win the inaugural International Jigging Casting Association Tournament in July 2023. From left: ...
CASCADE, Idaho — Ice-fishing, a popular wintertime sport on Idaho's frozen lakes, can be a little tougher to get into than the typical summertime fishing trip. There's the gear - from augers to ...
Ever jigged for squid? No, it’s not a dance. A jig is a specialized lure anglers use to catch some of the millions of Pacific squid that migrate from the ocean through Puget Sound each year. These ...