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1. Fishing in Brazil: Amazon Adventure

   … Our guide brings the boat alongside the fish using the trolling motor. Grabbing the lip-grippers he rushes to the … nothing but a stump of hair. Then the jig I’m trolling comes to an abrupt stop. The tip of my rod bends …

2. Center Console Versus Pilothouse: Put Yer Dukes Up!

   … close-quarters maneuvering. In open water, optioning a trolling motor to slow and adjust drifts is a welcome addition on either model. I have also found the trolling motor helpful for navigating my Chesapeake around …

3. Fishing the Middle Potomac Shoals, Wrecks, and Rocks

   … three sloughs oriented upriver-downriver, providing natural trolling lanes. There rugged bottom at the south end of the mound offers jigging opportunities. Also try trolling across the sloughs angling down-current. On …

4. Lower Chesapeake Bay Fishing Report, August 2020

   … Spanish mackerel are providing a fun fishery for trollers. Trolling the channel edges with Clark and Drone Number One … now. If you’re hoping for mackerel, remember to keep for trolling speed north of what you do for rockfish, they like …

5. Way South Chesapeake Bay Fishing Report, January 2021

   … Chesapeake Bay Fishing Report, January 7 Update: Trolling seems to the most reliable way to hone in on the … umbrellas, Stretch 25s, or live eels. Those who stick with trolling are having the most success pulling their offerings …

6. Hot New Fishing Gear, Summer 2021

   … that is. You’d be nuts to leave the dock on a striper trolling trip without umbrella rigs aboard, and the locally … June Bug rigs are the bread and butter of countless trolling charter boats all across the Chesapeake. If you …

7. The Travelling Angler East Coast Bucket List Hotspots

   … chunking with menhaden, drifting large menhaden chunks, and trolling with umbrellas rigged with spoon teasers are all … and fish gather in these areas. All of the usual bluewater trolling tactics will work well here, but if you want to …

8. Freshwater Fishing Report, December 2024

   … best success fishing minnows on jigheads while drifting or trolling. The mountain streams are benefitting from a … on the lower Eastern Shore find some of their best success trolling minnows and the bite is good right now for perch, …

9. Mid-Atlantic Freshwater Fishing Report, August 2020

   … stripers in Lake Anna and Smith Mountain are jigging and/or trolling deep around points and drop-offs. Crappie fishing …

10. Coastal Mid-Atlantic Fishing Report, July 2025

    … one of the odder reports of the summer, the Heat Wave was trolling for yellowfin well off the coast of Wachapreague, …