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A Google Maps Creek and a 40lb Leader: Mangrove Jack Made Simple
Chasing mangrove jack in far north Queensland comes down to fundamentals - find a snaggy creek, cast into the timber, run a heavy 40lb leader, strike hard and time the run-in tide in low light.
Match-the-Hatch With 10g Slugs: Tackle Tactics TV Cracks Moreton Bay Mac Tuna and School Mackerel on Tiny Metal
Downsized 10-gram metal slugs turn fussy Moreton Bay mac tuna into a steady run for the Tackle Tactics crew, with beacon-hugging school mackerel and a late-session flathead bonus rounding out the day.
Cameraman Wades Waist-Deep to Save the Hero Fish: Shroom's Rain-Bridge Bream Hunt Tests Light-Jig Finesse
Shroom's late-night bridge bream session in heavy rain produces a hero fish that only comes out of the snag pile after his cameraman wades waist-deep to free the line — a video the YouTuber says is proof that downpours and bridges concentrate bream rather than scatter them.
Sound Beats Subtlety: Justin Lucas's Screamin' Choppo Pattern for Calm-Water Shallow Topwater Bites
Bassmaster Elite pro Justin Lucas walks through the calm-water, low-light topwater pattern that turned a small Michigan lake into a Screamin' Choppo classroom.
Eastern Harbour Bream Bag: Steve Morgan Banks the Limit on BREAM Open Day One
ABT founder and tournament bream regular Steve Morgan has banked a clean five-fish limit on Day One of the 2026 Daiwa BREAM Australian Open, working the Eastern Harbour zone of Sydney Harbour with a rotation of Cranka Crab, Eco Gear Aqua and stick minnow presentations that culminated in a closing fish-over-30 to secure his bag.
Mangrove Jacks, a 57cm Undersize Barra and a GT Bycatch: AdventureSquires Runs From the Wind
Battling the flu, wind and rain, AdventureSquires ducks into a small creek and finds the surface bite firing — a thick 57cm barra, a 40cm mangrove jack and an aggressive GT all hit topwater before a near-legal barra throws the hook in the timber.
How Chris Johnston Found the 'Full Cast Corki' Pattern That Won Santee Cooper by 19 Pounds
Chris Johnston told the Santee Cooper crowd he found 'the Senko 30 years ago, the A-Rig' of soft plastics in practice, then rode a 'full cast hideup corki' pattern around docks to a 113 lb 12 oz Century Club win on Championship Sunday.
Cold-Front Footballs and a Two-Hour Walleye Limit: FishCraft's Lake St. Clair May Window
An angler-side recap of FishCraft's May 2026 Lake St. Clair report. Three days on the lake yields prespawn smallmouth footballs, a near-five-pounder that coughed up crawfish at the net, and a Detroit River walleye binge with eleven fish in under two hours on the siren soft plastic.
Slow It Down, Sit It on the Bottom: Shannons Fishing's Five Soft-Plastic Mistakes Costing You Fish
Shannons Fishing breaks down the most common soft-plastic mistakes Australian anglers make - fishing too fast, mismatching jig heads and plastics, ignoring structure, and missing strikes by not watching the line on the drop.
Yellowtail Scad Beats the 'Ghost of the Estuary': Shroom's Live-Bait Mulloway Walk-Through
Shroom rigs a 5/0 circle hook on 30 lb leader, drops a live yellowtail scad over deep estuary water and lands a 50 cm mulloway on the first try - after losing a livey to a chopper tailor that nearly took his fingers off.
One Rod, One Day, Three Species: A May Cape Cod Bass Slam From the Shore
A 6'6 Ugly Stik, a Z-Man shrimp, a glide bait, and a Massachusetts angler willing to spend five hours grinding the rocks for the striper that would close the Cape Cod Slam. A one-day, one-vehicle attempt to catch all three Cape bass species - largemouth, smallmouth and striped - that wraps the day with a tactical playbook other shore anglers can lift directly.
Hinge Minnows and Neko Worms Take Over: Tyler Brinks Reads the 2026 Bass Tackle Wall
Bass-tackle writer Tyler Brinks calls 2026 the year hinged minnows, foot-long Neko worms, gill-style flat sides and a wave of Spro-distributed Norries hard baits start to crowd out the now-mainstream dice-style fuzzy soft plastic.
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