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 ...

A new proposal in Annapolis could change how Maryland manages one of the Chesapeake Bay’s most iconic fish by limiting the Maryland Department of Natural Resources’ regulations on striped bass.

On Tuesday, the U.S. Supreme Court rejected an emergency petition from Maryland fishing groups to block new fishing restrictions around striped bass. Filed March 4, the petition claimed the Atlantic ...