, an essential first lesson for beginners is to master a few essential fishing rigs that use soft baits—whether they’re worms, crawfish, tube baits, or creature baits. Some soft baits come already ...

It is, without question, the weirdest-looking lure we use to catch striped bass, but it is also one of the most effective. The tube-and-worm rig is a length of colored surgical tube, typically 18-30 ...

The tube and worm is a lure/bait combination used primarily on the eastern seaboard, where kayak anglers find it's extraordinarily effective for striped bass. The tube is actually surgical tubing cut ...

At Fishing Finatics in Everett, Pete said there’s been a good striped bass bite off Revere, Nahant and Winthrop beaches. He suggests trolling the shoreline in 8 to 10-feet of water with Santini ...

Pete Santini said striped bass up to 45 inches in length can be found along the Winthrop shoreline. Flocks of birds are working over the schools and, when the bass come up to the surface, he suggests ...

If bait drives fishing success, then western Long Island Sound should be in the driver's seat pretty soon. Masses of sand eels continue to be the most prominent forage, but DEP fish biologists are ...