Category: News & Media
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Musky Forage Specificity and Lure Choice
By Adam M. Glickman Often, I have wondered just how forage specific muskies actually get. Muskies, like any predator, are certainly opportunistic, but it would be foolish for the angler looking to maximize results not to attempt to tune in to specific forage tendencies that arise throughout the year.
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A Practical Guide to Drop Shotting
By Robert Conley & Robert Fuchs Long thought of as a finesse technique but often misunderstood, it’s a multi species – go to – super hero. Over the years this simple rig has produced countless fish, often in the trophy range and has established a solid pole position in our arsenal. Tried, tested and succeeded…
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Eye Surgery: Staying On Top This Summer
By JP Bushey Apply an ice-jigger’s mentality and put specialized jigs right in the thick of things all summer. Large, deep structures on big water call for vertical fishing with surgical precision.
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Grass Carp Breakthroughs
By David Graham All too often I think there is an overemphasis on predatory species by anglers. Admittedly, I reserve personal preference towards predators, however, I believe that an angler’s pursuit should encompass all feeding types to include omnivorous and even herbivorous species. Interestingly enough, many of our nations largest freshwater inhabitants sustain a diet…
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Bass Tactics for Muskie
By Joseph Alfe In the Muskie world of late, the battle cry has been “Go big or go home,” and for sure, supersizing your baits (and the tackle needed to handle them) has, in my opinion, accounted for the deluge of supersized fish being caught in recent years. But like any tactic, it is not…
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Musky Water Monogamy: The Dangers of Chasing Tail
By Cory Allen If there’s something that unnerves me more than guys that follows reports and hot tips to their next fishing destination, I have yet to find it. It’s not so much that I fault people for wanting to pursue muskies successfully, sometimes in some of the only days a year they get to,…
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Cortland Line, The Next 100 Years in Fishing
Official Press Release There was a time when the steelhead fisheries of the upper Midwest ran red with pollution. When stripers were nearly fished out. When cane rods and silk lines had relegated fly fishing to a shrinking, elitist niche. We know, because we’ve been around for 100 years.
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Fishing-Headquarters Magazine, Issue 19
We would like to announce the release of Fishing-Headquarters Magazine, Issue 19. This is our issue for July and August, 2014. It is our annual mid-summer issue.
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Cortland Line Company May 2014 Newsletter
Official Press Release News from Cortland Line Company, May 2014: Cortland Line manufactures the finest fly lines, braided lines and monofilament in the world. Lines engineered to meet any fishing challenge. Whether the quarry is trout or tarpon, bass or bones, tuna or sailfish, we fish for them ourselves and we put that experience into…
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War Games, Battle of Beasts
By Cory Allen Go play outside. Three words I absolutely abhorred hearing growing up, as I clutched the now poignantly nostalgic rudimentarily ergonomic controller of a Sega Genesis. Since I could push the button on a 303, I had never had the slightest issue with getting my skin tan or hands dirty wading into backwaters…