Fishing duo Cole & Jay demonstrate how to spool braided line on spinning reels with best knots. Leader linked to ISIS ambush ...

Early last month, I reported on the great early-season smallmouth bass fishing some friends and I had experienced during incredible warm weather during the first couple weeks of March. I look forward ...

Learning how to tie a fishing knot that allows your lure or bait to work properly—and won’t fail under pressure—is a critical skill for any angler. In fact, it may be the single most important and ...

and reel, fresh line, and a premium, quality hook, but in most fishing scenarios, none of that matters if you can’t tie a good knot. So many things can go wrong during a fish fight, but quite often, ...

To avoid getting wind knots in freshly spooled braided line, Capt. Theophile Bourgeois allows the line to drag behind his boat. He says it allows the line to untwist and set up tighter on the spool.

It’s time for some more notes on knots. Some will recall that I periodically spend absurd amounts of time testing fishing knots on some lab equipment and then publish the results, usually in our print ...