We’ve spent hundreds of hours over the past decade testing spinning rods (and reels) for casual anglers on reasonable budgets, and right now our favorite all-around rod for most people is the ...

Surf fishing is incredibly hard on all gear and tackle, but the best surf fishing reels are up for the challenge. The reason so many reels struggle in the surf is due to the corrosive and ...

Of all the best Daiwa reels, the Exceler is a great option for a variety of fishing techniques. It is extremely smooth (one of the smoothest I’ve ever tested, at any price) while also remaining ...

The Gorilla GRS-175H is easy to reel and roll around the yard. It comfortably holds 150- feet of rubber hose and is far better, in every way, than any inexpensive reel we’ve tried. The Eley hose ...

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For decades, the Rod & Reel Pier and restaurant at the northern tip of Anna Maria Island withstood it all. Hurricanes. Lightning. Fire. The waves of saltwater and the passage of time. Then ...

The Rod & Reel Pier was one of those structures. A seafood restaurant once located off of a long pier on North Shore Drive is no longer. After Helene, the building was still standing, with ...

The history of modern Nigeria drips with the blood of hundreds of thousands of citizens who died needlessly in road accidents. One of them, a final year university student who was killed on the ...

Last April, in a two-part piece on this page, I first reported the current Minister of Works, David Umahi. He was refreshingly saying all the right things, so I gently invited him to take a hard ...

It was a survivor, until Mother Nature whipped up just a bit more than it could handle. For decades, the Rod & Reel Pier and restaurant at the northern tip of Anna Maria Island withstood it all.