Choosing the right fishing reels for saltwater is no easy task. Mostly because the market is flooded with a bevy of choices already. Things get even more complicated when newer anglers realize how ...

Here’s an observation I've picked up over five decades fishing the Virginia coast: spinning reels and saltwater do not mix.

Everyone loves the beach during the summer. It’s the time of year when families who don’t live on the coast flock to the surf, and many of them are hoping to sneak in a little fishing during their ...

A group of would-be anglers and a few old salts gathered near the banks of Pellicer Creek in Faver-Dykes State Park on Saturday for a class on saltwater fishing. Park services specialist Melissa ...

To start surf fishing all you need is a small box of tackle, a long fishing rod, and a surf fishing reel. Just because it’s simple, doesn’t mean surf fishing is easy. Surf anglers face a daunting list ...

When nearshore water temperatures reach their summertime peaks, species such as striped bass, big bluefish, and red drum leave the surf until the fall. What many surf anglers don’t realize, however, ...

As we get back to some sense of normalcy and we gain access to our public shorelines and river banks, let’s talk about fishing from the shore. In this article I am going to focus on surf fishing as ...