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THE NEXT BEST THING TO BEING ON THE WATER.

Cast confidently this season, and catch ‘em like never before using our collection of fishing videos and articles as your resource. Get expert advice on essential gear and techniques. If it’s about enjoying your time on the water and in the outdoors, we’ve got you covered.

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Tight Lining for Crappie

Veteran crappie anglers know there is one tactic that will catch crappie year-round but especially excels when fishing for crappie in hot weather.

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How To Catch Catfish With Yo-Yos

Yo-Yo fishing is a variation of limb line fishing with a mechanical twist. Due to its non-game status in many states, catfish are the most frequently sought target when fishing with yo-yos.

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The Best Braided Fishing Lines

Discover the best braided finishing lines at Mossy Oak's fishing blog. Explore our wide range of high-performance fishing gear before your next big adventure.

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Fishing with Spinnerbaits

Curious to see if the pros were even fishing with spinnerbaits in tournaments anymore, I posed these two questions to Mossy Oak Fishing Pros Brandon Lester, Brandon Cobb, and Jordan Lee.

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Down-rodding For Inland Striped Bass

One of the most commonly utilized striped bass fishing tactics is the use of the down rod. Known by a variety of names, this tactic is the vertical presentation of live, dead or cut dead bait.

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10 Best Catfish Baits – Both Live and Artificial

Anglers all over the U.S. use baits, both artificial and live, to lure in the biggest catfish.

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Death, Taxes, and Leaky Waders: Bottomland Book Club

One title I’ve never quite achieved is that of a Fly Fisherman. Now, I've tried my hand at this art several times, but due to a strange ability to attract low hanging limbs and a lack in patience the fly rod usually saw little light before it quickly found its way back to the Jeep.

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Saving the Forgotten Fish of the South

In an unassuming building in Knoxville, Tennessee, a small and devoted team of nine biologists work to restore the southeast’s rarest and most vulnerable non-game fish species.

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A Trip to Venice, Louisiana for the Mossy Oak Crew

Venice, Louisiana has a few monikers—The End of the World, Tuna Town. It seems to run on its own rules and its own ecosystem where fishing is life and captains are king.

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How to Travel with Your Kayak: 9 Helpful Tips

Here are nine tips to help you conquer the not-so-romantic side of kayak transport and get you out on the water more efficiently.

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Bowfishing: What to Know Before You Go

Bowfish long enough, and you’ll realize the best and worst of times can happen in a hurry – even on the same night. You better be prepared. Here’s a look at what you need to know before you go on your next bowfishing trip.

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Summer Redfish Strategies

Call them red drum, channel bass, puppy drum, spottail bass or simply redfish, these inshore fish are frequently the target of vacationing coastal anglers from Massachusetts to Texas. Redfish are voracious fighters that range from 12 to 50 inches and can weigh as much as 60 pounds.

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Passing a Good Time with Guns, Dogs, Fly Rods, and Other Joys: Bottomland Book Club

Now, if you’re familiar with the name, I need not go into much detail on his ability to spin a story. If by chance, though, you are unfamiliar with him, it's safe to say you have missed out and I will attempt to give a little background.

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Offshore Fishing: Live Baiting for Tuna

Live baiting is usually the most productive method for catching yellowfin tuna. Some of the most common live baits used when tuna fishing in the gulf are threadfin herring, menhaden/pogies, blue runners/hardtails, and mullet. When choosing a live bait for tuna fishing, you want to “match the hatch.” Whatever the tuna are feeding on that time of year is the type of live bait you want to use. Tuna feed on different bait fish at

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The Longest Silence: Bottomland Book Club

Lucky for us, the master observer and literary genius, Thomas McGuane, loves fishing in wild places – skillsets and adorations that produced one pure fishing book from him in 1999: The Longest Silence – A Life in Fishing.

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