The most useful and versatile inshore terminal-tackle rig in Northeast Florida and Southeast Georgia is a sliding cork affair, appropriately called the "float rig." It's also the inshore rig that ...

What is a Slip Bobber Rig? A slip bobber rig requires a few key components to tie everything together, but the star of the show - and what gives this rig its name - is a float (bobber) that has a hole ...

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.

How to assemble a saltwater trout float rig: Necessary components: 10- to 12-inch pole float; bobber stop knots; glass beads; 20-pound fluorocarbon leader line; 1.25- and 1.5-ounce trolling (trout) ...

There are a lot of ways to fish, but not for captain Dave Sipler. While many guides are fans of one type of fishing or another, Sipler is a disciple.It's the Zen of the float upon which Sipler can ...

Capt. Brian Sanders turned on the VHF radio just to make sure he wasn’t crazy. As his 24-foot Triton bay boat pounded across the whitecaps in the Gulf of Mexico, he listened to the National Weather ...