News, Facts & Opinions

Choosing the Right Lure and Skirt Colors for Warm Water Sport Fishing Update: This is a great old article written by Eric White many years ago. I just polished up the formatting and republished it for the summer, for your enjoyment. You'll not that he intended to write about marlin...

This is a summary of research reporting the stomach contents of Sailfish. The Sailfish is a warm water inhabitant and seems to be very opportunistic in its feeding habits. From big-water prey to reef and shallow-water ocean creatures, the Sailfish seems to adapt to whatever is available, wherever it is...

It’s time for the ocean to change again. It is not a surprise that in a fluid world nothing really ever stands still. The constant pull of the moon, the big summer hurricanes in the Northern Hemisphere are equally matched by the massive cyclones of the Southern Hemisphere, and then...

Eventually all of us pelagic fishermen discover the sad fact that our skirted trolling lures lures will turn yellow - to varying degrees - over time.

One very important question that we are often asked, second only to "what skirt combo should I use?" is “what hook rig do you recommend?” The opinions on this subject are not only strongly held, they are as widely varied as color.  What you get here is only one opinion of the...

Opinions are like belly buttons. But there is some data and research behind the debate on lure materials. As fishermen, we have all rationalized why some lures work some days, and other days they don’t. There are lots of pretty, colorful, and flashy lures on the market and we’ve all...