UNION HALL - Rex Smith must be crazy. Why else would this man, whom I consider a good friend, call me Tuesday afternoon to say he was catching the heck out of stripers at Smith Mountain Lake? "You ...

Fishing umbrella rigs in shallow water pushes gear and technique to the limit. Big fish respond violently when the rig passes through the right zone. Positioning and retrieve speed matter more than ...

THE FIRST of July has almost always been the unofficial start of the striper fishing season for the Dickstah. Although there's a scattering of fish that come in earlier, they are apt to be on the ...