Alan Battista’s garage manufactured Chesapeake Rig is a collection of heavy wire, glass beads, swivels, soft plastic shad bodies and bucktail jig heads. As the waters of the Chesapeake Bay cool down ...

I’ve had this old deer tail floating around since I was a kid. It was from my first buck, a half-rack I shot with my Pop-Pop’s 30-30 sitting next to him behind an old field stone wall. Pop mounted the ...

For anglers using bait only, a conventional spool (baitcast) reel is a good choice, and if it has a bait clicker, all the better. A high-low rig is fine for weakies, as are specially designed “trout ...