, an essential first lesson for beginners is to master a few essential fishing rigs that use soft baits—whether they’re worms, crawfish, tube baits, or creature baits. Some soft baits come already ...

Summer flounder (fluke) fishing got off to a great start this year. “I limited out on fluke in 80 feet of water in the Block Island Wind Farm area this week," Peter Johnson reported on May 21. Johnson ...

Florida's Peter Thliveros took fishing a soft plastic minnow bait to the next level when he popularized the "Petey Rig," featuring a finesse weight pegged 10 to 12 inches in front of a weightless, ...