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Fishing News - Fresh

Blue Fish Radio Show Joins With ODU Magazine

ODU Magazine will be featuring all Blue Fish Radio shows going forward, as a great way for us at ODU to provide our growing readership with entertaining and informative fishing news. The host, Lawrence Gunther, […]

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Fishing News - Fresh

ODU Magazines Last Three Magazines: Ice, Winter and Fall

Have you seen the last three editions of ODU Magazine? Here are the links to hop over and read: Fall 2015 –  https://www.odumagazine.com/Magazines/ODUFallFishing2015/, Winter 2015 – https://www.odumagazine.com/Magazines/ODUWinterandIceFishing2015/ and ice fishing 2015/16 – https://www.odumagazine.com/Magazines/ODUDec15toJan16IceFishing/

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Walleye Fishing

TAKE-AWAYS

I’m sure of it: My open water fishing season for 2015 is over. It’s sleeting outside and the boat has been retired for the season. When the boat gets put away, I like to reflect […]

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Boat News

Fishing In The Third Dimension

Sonar has been opening anglers’ eyes to the underwater world ever since Lowrance first made waves with its iconic “little green box” back in 1957. In the years since, fishermen have enjoyed a steady stream […]

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Conservation

18 Foot Burmese Python Captured

A massive Burmese python large enough to ingest deer and alligators was captured by a permitted python researcher in the Everglades National Park in Florida recently, CBS Miami reported Tuesday. The python, found along a […]

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Fishing News - Salt

Go Fish for 7/18/15 by Capt. Bill Miller

Night time fishing is a good way to beat the summer heat and Tampa Bay offers many opportunities. Dock lights attract bait fish that attract other fish like speckled trout, redfish, snook, ladyfish and more.

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Fishing News - Fresh

NW PA Fishing Report: 1/01/15

Brought to you by PA Great Lakes Region tourism. What’s biting in the lakes, streams and rivers of Crawford, Erie, Mercer and Venango Counties? FRENCH CREEK – Flowing through all four counties. Editor’s note: By […]

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Bass Fishing

Schooling Bass Like Noise

In late summer, the schools of bass that are feeding on forage fish will respond to lipless crankbaits that provide noise.  The bass spend much of the fall months in schools that attack the forage […]

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Fishing News - Fresh

Custom Rat-L-Traps

Often we get calls from Rat-L-Trap fans looking for colors that we either don’t make anymore or have never made. In order to meet this demand, we’ve started a custom lure program. If you have […]

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Fishing News - Fresh

Jig Tactics for Bass

Looking through my tackle box when I got to the lake I was trying to decide what I should start with, after a few minutes I decided to tie on and throw a jig. I […]

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Top Fishing Headlines

Catch A Bunch In The Fall

I got to fishing again this past week. My friend Mike Gottheardt and I were chasing smallmouth bass on a river in eastern Wisconsin. We caught’em good: Lots of smallmouth and some nice ones. Nothing […]

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Catfish Fishing

Classic Catfish

Last time the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service took the temperature of licensed anglers, 7-million savvy souls1 named the catfish their favored species. By comparison, 10-million anglers preferred bass, while a meager million liked walleyes. […]

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Panfish Fishing

Are You Crappie Hunting in Fall

Early in the fall, weather can be quite changeable with hot days and cool nights.  The changes can be confusing to crappie.  Once the weather begins to stabilize, with cooler temperatures the norm, fish tend […]

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Boat News

Eliminate Barnacles Off Your Hull

Sonic Armor, LLC, a Florida based company, has completed testing the effectiveness of eliminating barnacles and algae on boats by using ultrasonic sound. Sonic Armor saves boat owners huge amounts of time, money and inconvenience […]

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Panfish Fishing

Fall Panfish

Crappie anglers on Lake Barkley in the fall often get more than they bargained for in the form of a finny fight. Like its sister lake, Kentucky Lake, Lake Barkley is well known for panfish […]

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Catfish Fishing

Catch Catfish

Catfish anglers know the water and its surrounding structure above and below the surface.  For those who ply the rivers of Illinois this often can be quite a challenge. They study the vegetation to find […]

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Fishing Tips

Circle Hooks Benefits

Because circle hooks help to significantly increase fish survival rates when practicing catch and release, they have been incorporated into live bait regulations for many states. The difference between a circle hook and a J-hook […]

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Inshore

Summer Snook

Snook are Florida’s premier inshore species and summer is a great time to fish for them. You have options for where to find these hard-fighting fish but it comes down to this: Do you want […]

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Panfish Fishing

Suddenly Summer

The smell of fresh cut grass and rising smoke from outdoor grills are undeniable signals that summer is in full swing. Days begin to shorten, but the hottest days of the year are ahead. Anglers […]

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Handguns

Ruger SP101 Five-Shot Revolver .357 Magnum

Sturm, Ruger & Company, Inc. (NYSE: RGR)  SP101® five-shot revolver chambered in the venerable .357 Magnum cartridge and featuring a 4.2″ barrel with improved sights. “The SP101 has been an extremely popular small frame revolver […]

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Rifles and Shotguns

Blaser R8 Bolt-action Rifle

Perfection. “The beginning of a new era of perfection”, is how Blaser CEO Bernhard Knoebel has named the Blaser bolt action rifle R8 in his preface of the brand-new catalog. For the past five years, […]

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Hunting News

Sightmark Reticle Riflescopes

Sightmark’s line of Triple Duty Riflescopes provide a reticle for every style of shooter, whether the application is tactical, hunting or competition shooting. Featuring five different reticles, the Sightmark line of triple duty riflescopes maintain […]