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05/01/2026

A little shy? Maybe cold and needed a blanket? 🤔

This fish was buried from almost head to fin in grass 🤨 Have you seen anything like this before?

Lightning struck twice for one West Virginia angler, who edged out his previous record with an enormous chain pickerel t...
05/01/2026

Lightning struck twice for one West Virginia angler, who edged out his previous record with an enormous chain pickerel that now holds the state’s record for length.

According to the West Virginia Division of Natural Resources (DNR), Matt Born of Reedsville caught a 27.95-inch, 5.65-pound chain pickerel on April 21 while fishing a private pond in Preston County. The fish, taken on a homemade spinner and light 4-pound-test line, narrowly surpasses Born’s own previous record set in 2019.

Fisheries biologists Dustin Smith and E.M. Dean verified the catch, confirming it as the longest chain pickerel ever recorded in the state. While Born now holds both the current and former length records, the all-time weight record remains with Steven Demma, whose 6.19-pound pickerel was caught in 2001 at Tuckahoe Lake.

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✍️: Joe Albanese

How often should you change your fishing line? As an angler, it’s vitally important to figure out the best time. If you ...
05/01/2026

How often should you change your fishing line? As an angler, it’s vitally important to figure out the best time. If you don’t change it soon enough, your line could fail during a fish fight with a big fish, while bomb casting a high-dollar lure, or even in a random spot far down in the spool. But If you get in the habit of changing it too early, however, you could cost yourself hundreds of unnecessary dollars over time.

There’s an art to knowing when to change your line— and a bit of an art to the process of changing out old fishing line for new. You can find some pointers on how to spool lines on both spinning and baitcasting reels — we cover both in separate articles.

As for knowing when to change your fishing line, it depends on the type. There are three main types of fishing line used for bass and many other sport fish: monofilament, fluorocarbon and braid. And realize there are dozens of manufacturers that make hundreds of individual products. So, offering up one blanket rule for all lines is an unrealistic task. But there are some early warning signs to look out for.

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✍️: Shaye Baker

04/30/2026

We feel you, Mr. Burbot.. 😆

Anglers Barry and Helen Girten had hired full-time and well-known crappie guide Trent Goss for a day of fishing on April...
04/30/2026

Anglers Barry and Helen Girten had hired full-time and well-known crappie guide Trent Goss for a day of fishing on April 24. The Illinois couple and Goss headed to Grenada Lake, a 35,000-acre reservoir in north-central Mississippi that’s been on fire with big crappies, as fish are staging for spawning and heavyweight-limit catches are common.

Goss targets big crappies with forward-facing sonar — and all throughout the morning, the anglers had been slamming some big slabs.

Goss uses a specialized technique targeting big crappies. He has a single 15-foot-long pole that he positions from the boat bow. Then, Goss ties 12-pound test line to the pole and a #4 hook with a single live minnow on it. A small quarter-ounce weight sits above the hook. That weight is held in place by a pair of sliding bobbins, which can be positioned up or down the line depending on the depth of water needed to fish.

“We chased down that big fish I had on the scope with my electric fishing motor,” Goss explained. “When we got close, Barry put the minnow in front of the fish and it took the minnow.”

The crappie put up a good fight. When Barry brought it close to the landing net that Goss held, the veteran guide knew the fish exceeded three pounds. And when he got it in the net, he knew it was a four-pounder — and the biggest white crappie he’d seen in five years guiding on Grenada for Grenada Lake Charters.

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✍️: Bob McNally

Sitka may be best known for their line of duck-hunting waders — including the favored Sitka Delta Zip waders — but they ...
04/30/2026

Sitka may be best known for their line of duck-hunting waders — including the favored Sitka Delta Zip waders — but they have waded into fishing in a big way. Launched Feb. 3, 2026, Sitka Fish marks the company’s official entry into the fishing category, with waders and technical apparel designed to tackle everything from icy steelhead runs to the deck of a bass boat and beyond.

I’ve been wearing a pair of Sitka’s CrossCurrent GTX waders since the launch, using them to target rainbow trout and smallmouth in small streams and medium-sized rivers, and chase largemouths in ponds. I’ve even worn them to catch (and release) salamanders with my son. I paired them with Sitka’s CrossCurrent wading boot with the rubber sole. Here’s what I found after wearing them for a couple of months.

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✍️: Joe Albanese

04/29/2026

Float like a butterfly, buck like a bronco 🐎

Featured Bait: Rapala Bronco Bug

On April 4, young bass tournament angler Devon Dvorak was fishing a public central-Iowa bass lake. The wind was howling ...
04/29/2026

On April 4, young bass tournament angler Devon Dvorak was fishing a public central-Iowa bass lake. The wind was howling with temperatures in the 30s. And while the water temperature was just 42 degrees, the bass were eating — and Dvorak was catching them.

“Right after ice-out is a great time to catch bass in Iowa because the weeds are down, and baitfish and panfish are vulnerable,” Dvorak, 23, told Wired2fish. “I was fishing alone, and really got into some good bass. There were plenty of 2- to 5-pounders that are easy to spot with forward-facing sonar.”

It was mid-morning and Dvorak was easing along in his bass boat over 15 feet of clear water. That’s when he noticed something surface-splash about 40 yards away.

Dvorak turned on his video camera to record the action while grabbing for a large landing net.

One heavy bass had another, smaller bass lodged tightly in its wide-open mouth. They both were flopping around the water’s surface.

“They were locked together when I netted them,” he said. “It was incredible.”

Dvorak dipped the bass, put them in his boat, then carefully pried the two apart. He weighed the bigger fish at about five pounds, with the smaller bass about two pounds.

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✍️: Bob McNally

Ever since I was little, all I wanted to do was fish bass tournaments. Watching the Bassmasters every Saturday morning w...
04/29/2026

Ever since I was little, all I wanted to do was fish bass tournaments. Watching the Bassmasters every Saturday morning was a ritual in my grandparents’ house, when I was still too young to join my dad on his boat. The dream of walking upon that big stage to weigh in bass as an audience comprising hundreds of people watched grabbed hold of my little brain.

It wasn’t until I started fishing bigger collegiate tournaments for the SUNY Cobleskill Bass Fishing Team that I started asking myself “Is the tournament game all it’s cracked up to be? Is this even fun anymore?”

Bass fishing, at its core, is supposed to be an escape. It’s early weekend mornings, quiet water, and the simple anticipation of the next bite. For some, it’s something we only get to enjoy once every weekend between work and family time. But when you add a tournament to the equation, that peaceful experience quickly turns into something else: pressure.

Pressure can sharpen skills, but it can also steal joy. For many anglers, the stress of competition replaces the very peace that drew them to fishing in the first place.

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✍️: Nick Petrou

The best fishing sunglasses aren’t the same for everyone. Sure, you can say that about your truck, your boat shoes, your...
04/28/2026

The best fishing sunglasses aren’t the same for everyone. Sure, you can say that about your truck, your boat shoes, your casting rod, or just about anything fishing related. But sunglasses for fishing are incredibly varied, encompassing everything from old-school clip-on polarized glasses to modern wrap-around styles. There are even specific men’s and women’s sunglass styles, shaped to fit the contours of each’s head shape. At Wired2fish, I tested as many as I could get my hands on. And I tested them independently of partiality from manufacturers. I used different lens colors when necessary, something that anglers must consider when fishing and something that I cover in a section near the bottom of this article.

We fished with them on the water in all conditions — I went to the beaches with them in bright sun, I hung out in the boat and kayak with them, and I went paddle boarding with them in low light conditions — just about any outdoor activity an angler might enjoy. I fish in Florida, so I got to test how these sunglasses blocked harsh sunlight in the summer. I tested them on humid and sweaty days when glasses can easily fog up. And I tested to see how they gripped your face and whether they could pierce the water when sight fishing. In fact, I tested all the most-common considerations, such as polarization quality, clarity, and blocking light from entering around the edges. In the end, Wired2fish identified some excellent shades. I tried to organize models available today into real-world categories to better help you decide what works for you. Check out the results of our hands-on testing below.

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✍️: Sam Hudson

Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks (FWP) is investigating the illegal introduction of a northern pike into Pine Grove Pond, ...
04/28/2026

Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks (FWP) is investigating the illegal introduction of a northern pike into Pine Grove Pond, a small but heavily used family fishing site in Kalispell. This is another example of illegal introductions threatening existing fisheries, such as with largemouth bass in Maine and smallmouth bass in Chilliwack, B.C.

Fisheries managers were worried after seeing a photo of somebody holding a northern pike near Pine Grove Pond circulating on social media last fall, fearing it was dumped into the pond after the picture was taken. To investigate, FWP set eight tip-ups to see what if they could pull a pike out of the waterbody. On January 29, biologists confirmed their suspicions when they caught a northern pike that wore the same distinctive tail markings as the fish in the photo.

“We’re pretty confident that we caught the pike that was in that photo,” said Dillon Tabish, regional communication and education program manager for FWP. Tabish noted that it was impossible to verify that it was the same fish, or that it was the only pike placed in the pond.

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✍️: Joe Albanese

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