Fish ‘Straight Up’ For Lake Trout In New York’s Finger Lakes

When fishing for lake trout in New York’s Finger Lakes, a vast majority of anglers troll deep with spoons and cow bells. However, there’s a more hands-on, but seldom-used technique that will also bring lake trout up from the bottom and into the boat. It involves fishing vertically with leadhead jigs dressed with soft plastics. It’s not really jigging; instead, a more accurate description is “vertical retrieving.”

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Fish ‘Straight Up’ For Lake Trout In The Finger Lakes

When fishing for lake trout in New York’s Finger Lakes, a vast majority of anglers troll deep with spoons and cow bells. However, there’s a more hands-on, but seldom-used technique that will also bring lake trout up from the bottom and into the boat. It involves fishing vertically with leadhead jigs dressed with soft plastics. It’s not really jigging; instead, a more accurate description is “vertical retrieving.”

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Atlantic Coast Fishing: Casting To Cobia On Structure

One of the most exciting inshore fishing opportunities available to Mid-Atlantic anglers is casting to cobia cruising around buoys, markers, jetties and other structures. It’s fun because cobia get big, as in 25- to 70 pounds (maybe “huge” is a better word), and anglers who know where to look can see cobia, which provides thrilling sight-casting action!

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A Billfish Bonanza: One Boat Catches 102 Marlin In A Single Season!

A Pennsylvania couple enjoyed one of the most incredible offshore fishing seasons ever in 2008. Jim and Sandy McCarthy, along with their friends, aboard Jim’s boat Covert Mission out of Cape May, N.J., caught an astonishing 101 white marlin, one blue marlin, and one swordfish! The mind-boggling 103 billfish is a record for the Cape May Marlin and Tuna Club.

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