S1-E05: Spiny Lobster Diving with Bri Van Scotter

How to Pair Beer with Fish

There’s nothing like a traditional shore lunch. The golden and crispy fried fish filets, fresh-caught and balanced on a mountain of onions and fried potatoes. The aroma of the fish intermingles with the smell of campfire smoke and the breathtaking views of the wilderness somehow make the flavor better. I try to have a shore lunch at least once or twice a season. These simple meals become one of the true highlights of my angling year. That is, of...

How to Catch Redfish with Jigs

Much like spot-and-stalk hunting, sight casting to redfish in skinny water is equal parts electrifying and frustrating. Reds are the bully of Gulf Coast inshore fishing: they’re quick, meticulous, and aggressive, which is why many anglers treasure this species. The rush of seeing a red tailing, casting at it, hooking up, and that fish burning up your drag with its shoulders out, busting through skinny water is like few other fishing experiences...

Catch More Fish with Drunken Minnows

Cheap vodka is good for a lot of things. It can cure almost anything that ails you. If one of those things happens to be a lack of fresh minnows, it can fix that too. A few of the old timers in the Lake Erie perch and walleye scene have told me preserving minnows with Russian vodka was a trick carried over from, well, Mother Russia. I have no idea if that’s true, but I know it works better than salting, and provided you’re not using Grey Goose...