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Fishing Knot Tying with Braided Line

Photo ©, Ron Brooks

When's the last time you tied a piece of fluorocarbon line to your braided line? Do you have problems keeping that knot together? Here are some tips on what I do and what knots I use.

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Just a Jetty Fishing Kind of Day

Saturday January 28, 2012

Photo © Jerry Brumback align="left" width="220" height="160">The winter months are awfully good to me. This is when one good day can put jetty fishing at its best. Sheepshead, redfish, trout, bluefish, and drum - almost all these species can be found on and along the jetties this time of year.

Cold Weather and Old Fishing Rods

Wednesday January 25, 2012

Photo © Ron BrooksWhen the cold weather sets in, lots of people will not fish. It's the ones that tell me stories about why they can't fish that amuse me! Here's what I do on days that are too cold! My old fishing rods keep me company!  Read More


When the Water Warms

Sunday January 22, 2012

Like most of you, I suppose, I can't stand to wait when it comes to fishing. It comes from my father. I can remember as a kid always being the first to reach the launch ramp in the morning, and if we somehow were not first, it seemed that the day was simply ruined... Read more...

Trailers - Float-on or Winch-on?

Wednesday January 18, 2012

In all the years I fished with my father growing up, not once did he ever own a float-on trailer. In fact, with the winch-on trailers he had over the years the tire rims barely, if ever, got wet. My father was paranoid about saltwater rust and corrosion...

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