
Who is Illinois’ best fisherman?
The question seems easy at first look, but there are a lot of angles you can take into consideration when trying to come up with an answer.

The question seems easy at first look, but there are a lot of angles you can take into consideration when trying to come up with an answer.

Finding unpressured havens for cold-water lunkers.

A north wind was howling across Minnesota the other day – well, actually since the May fishing opener. Once again I was trying to catch a bass – largemouth or smallmouth – and not catching

“You see them on the screen, you can see them react to your lure. But they’re not a piece-of-cake fish. You’ve got to work them.”

By joining this program you help the biologists manage the steelhead program and learn more about the fish you caught.


Making some adjustments to fall walleye presentations to deter these pesky little critters.

Walleye fishing has been so good on Lake Erie in recent years that anglers have been spoiled a bit, as evidenced by the standard comments this year along the lines of “well, we got our

The study used flesh samples of five popular sport species of salmonids in Lake Michigan to determine what they had eaten.
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