Martin Strarup

Martin Strarup

Less Can Lead to More

After two recent trips to paradise (Port Mansfield for those who don't already know) I am still amazed at how...

Captain Wayne Stark

As we get older we lose people we care about and people we love. It's a sad part of life...

First Aid... Plan First

The old saying among wade fishermen is that once we step out of the boat we enter the food chain....

You Don’t Want to Know What I Call the Wind!

Seriously, you can only clean a reel, change the line, grease the hubs on the trailer wheels, check every hose...

Weekends…Where Do I Go?

I've mentioned before that not all of us are lucky enough to pick our days to go fishing. Some of...

Buzzbaits in the Bay?

I don't know why I was holding the Q-Beam at the time. The moon was so bright that I could...

Dead Water

It was one of those perfect winter mornings. The wind was a tad cold out of the northeast but the...

Cold River Fishing

Hunting season has for the most part wound down and folks who put their fishing tackle away are replacing line...

There is a Stillness About It

I love this time of year. Deer season, Thanksgiving, Christmas, New Year's Eve, New Year's Dayand fishing in between. The...

Changing Your Retrieve

Years ago when my friend Sammy Wigginton and I used to haunt the Land Cut often I learned something about...

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