Black Warrior Lures

Salted bluegill is an easy catfish bait recipe. In fact for any catfish bait just take most any meat and salt it down. They’ll bite!

Here’s my experience and opinion on Stage 1 kits for mud motors. You’ll make more power, but you won’t notice much gain. It makes the engine breathe easier. That’s what you want. You shouldn’t notice any extra wear on the engine as long as you keep with the original RPM range. Reliability gets sketchy when…

Dad fished with a cane pole all the time. Cane pole fishing comprised most of what I did as a kid. Rods and reels were sort of fancy devices that caused more trouble than anything. There was always a cane pole on the boat, and especially if fishing from the bank. I’ve wanted to experiment…

In all my years of fishing, dad never taught me how to rig a cane pole. It’s one of those things a dad thinks he taught you how to do, but never did. Today’s pole are much better since many of them are made from fiberglass, and some are even made from graphite. Rigging a…

I’ve sold these homemade slip corks for years now. They also come in a do-it-yourself kit. This way you can set the length as you like. The kit comes with 24 stems, 24 stem swivels and 24 pre drilled wine corks. Slip cork fishing is a pretty finesse way to fish for catfish. In fact…

After breaking my oar, I decided to bring my Bending Branches Impression Day Paddle out of mothballs. I used it on my old pirogue, but never got rid of it. It’s coming in handy now. I had looked for a wooden kayak paddle design for some time and came across Bending Branches over and over.…