This week we have a very important answer to a very important question: when is the right time to use a snap, or should I use a snap swivel, or should I tie my fishing lure directly to my fishing line ...

While barrel swivels may work fine for the bottomfishing crowd, if you want your swivels to twist under load or while trolling, you need to use a ball-bearing swivel, like the solid-brass ball-bearing ...

Slab crappies are meat eaters—sure enough minnow munchers. They take artificials well at times, especially jigs—but big crappie will turn their noses at even the best of the best crappie lures.

I recently modified the stainless rings on our outrigger halyards that my bridge teasers run through. To deal with line twist in the monofilament halyards, you must use high-quality ball-bearing ...

This pink salmon is small, but the twisted line it bit on is of world record proportions. Failing to use swivels can cause monofilament line twist. / Joe Shead If you've fished long enough with ...

Anglers tend to focus on the portion of their fishing tackle that comes into direct contact with the fish: hooks, artificial lures, flies. Narrowing it down still more, the point of the hook. It does ...

Anglers can catch trout using those no-knot "fast snaps" -- or at least, I did on one recent fly fishing outing. I always figured those no-knot “fast snaps” that allow you to snap lures or hooks on ...