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 ...

One of the best ways to catch fish, for the next few months especially but even year-round, is with the old standard shad dart and minnow below a float. I caught my largest pond pickerel, weighing ...

After a softer 2025, floater backlog is strengthening for 2026 and beyond, driven by early contracting, strong South American ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

LONDON (AP) — Two tugboats have moved into place to re-float an oil rig that was blown onto a remote Scottish beach in a storm. The Transocean Winner was being towed when it broke free of its tug and ...