Well folks, this is the final issue of Scales and Tales for 2025. It has been an interesting year that I see overall as good.

Pollock squash the misnomer that there's not much worth fishing for in the Northern Atlantic in winter. Here's how to catch ...

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Shallow winter redfish school up in the North Carolina backwaters. Sight-casting to winter redfish requires fishing with ...

Here’s an observation I've picked up over five decades fishing the Virginia coast: spinning reels and saltwater do not mix.

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SLOW. 73 degrees. Cold weather has kicked off the winter patterns. Redfish and drum can be caught on dead shrimp on drop-offs from flats. Trout can be caught on plastics in thigh to belly button deep ...

Fly reels used to play second fiddle to rods, at least in the fly-fishing world. Volumes have been written about the nuances of bamboo, fiberglass, and graphite fly rods. But the reel? “It’s just a ...