Some days out on the ice it’s like shooting fish in a barrel, but other days you need to work hours and hours for a few small fish. In this piece, I connect the information from my previous article on electronics and share some of the best lures/jigs and rod and reel set-ups to use on the hard water. Hopefully, the [...]
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Electronics Will Increase your Ice Fishing Catch! Guaranteed.
If you are a Ice Fisherman there are three colors to live by: Green – Small objects in the water, weeds, or objects off to the side of the cone Yellow – Softer objects that the sonar can penetrate but only to a point (Mud) Red – Hard bottom, rocks, logs, and FISH!!!! Many ice [...]
Hudson River Stripers
Trolling Striped Bass (Downriggers and Flat lines) Part 1 of 3 We are going to focus on trolling for striped bass on the Hudson River during the spring time run. If you have a boat, whether a kayak or a 60” Ritchie Howell, you can catch striped bass. Smaller boats – On smaller boats 10ft – 14 [...]
Fishing With The Pink Worm
My introduction to the Pink Worm While fishing north of the Salmon River a few years ago, I was accompanied by another skilled angler and a young protégé who we took under our wing for a full day of steelheading. It was late Fall and we hit the road in the wee [...]
A Few Nice Trout From The Rondout Creek
One evening after work this past week I fished the Rondout creek along Berme Road in Wawarsing. I put my centerpin on a small stream rod so I could maneuver it through the thick brush and over hanging trees a little easier. I fished a slow and shallow hole about 60 yrds long that [...]
Centerpin Fishing for Trout
Center-pin fishing is an effective way to catch trout in that it presents the bait in a true to life manner. It originally came to our country through British Columbia and before that it was used to catch carp in England. The reel free-spools in both directions and can be very tricky getting use to [...]
Fishing for Stripers from the Banks of the Hudson River
As the owner of HVS forum and this Pro-staff blog I would like to let you know that in the coming weeks we will be having some great information and articles published on this site by some pretty talented individuals. All of this information will pertain to local interests on hunting and fishing the NY Hudson [...]
How to Land a Striper from Shore
A picture perfect stiper landing by Ron Lambertson .
