Our team spent the last charter season testing eight different deep drop fishing lights across the Gulf and the Atlantic, dropping them next to baited rigs in 800 to 1,800 feet of water. The result of one A/B test on r/Fishing, where an angler ran identical rigs for four days with and without a flashing […]

When I booked my first 12-hour charter out of Venice, Louisiana, I thought any rig with a circle hook and a sinker would put tilefish in the cooler. I was wrong. After losing two rigs to snapped leaders and watching three more tangle into bird's nests on the way down, I learned the hard way […]