Metro Area Fishing Report – July 26, 2026 – video
The bite has stayed the same in some ways for sure, but we’ve made a few tweaks here and there to increase our big fish bites.
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July 26, 2026
Mike Raykovicz: Making me a believer in topwaters
Growing up, my friends and I fished for just two species. In the spring, it was trout, and in the summer, it was bass. Pocono mountain streams were our go-to spots for trout with the Lehigh River, Broadhead, and Tobyhanna creeks leading the list as favorite trout fishing destinations.
After school was out in June, the Susquehanna River was our choice destination for smallmouth bass fishing.
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Bob Zink: Examining the shifting baseline syndrome in hunting and fishing
A concept known as the shifting baseline syndrome (SBS) is pivotal to our understanding game and fish species and how they are managed.
SBS refers to the phenomenon in which each generation accepts the condition of the natural world they grow up in as “normal,” even if ecosystems have significantly declined over time. In 1995 a fisheries scientist named Daniel Pauly coined the SBS term to illustrate how people underestimate long-term environmental loss because they compare present conditions to their own memory rather than to historical abundance.
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Greg Seubert: The quiet magic of the Wisconsin lake I hate to tell you about
As far as Northwoods fishing destinations go, a small lake in Wisconsin’s Taylor County probably isn’t on anyone’s list.
Except mine, and that’s the way I want it to stay. On paper, the 23-acre lake in the Chequamegon-Nicolet National Forest in Taylor County may not seem like a big deal. It’s a different story in person, however.
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New York Reader Stories: Lessons of patience, perseverance, and faith from the turkey woods
My 2026 turkey season started on a sad note with a longbeard coming my brother’s and my way only to hear five rapid-fire shots in the next field and the bird eluding us. There was another shot in another field across from us an hour later.
