Fishing
Metro Area Fishing Report – March 8, 2026 – video
What a change a week brings – like a complete 180 from just days ago. Most of it has to do with weather and ice (access/shoreline) conditions, but the fishing is really good.
Glenn Sapir: Give me some of that outdoor religion
Two subjects that I don’t discuss with anyone other than family and close friends are politics and religion. They are personal, and I long ago concluded that what I think might be the most persuasive
Steve Sarley: Dangers CPOs face come during dullest stops
I started repeating the tale about the time I went on a ride-along with DNR officers Rich Riedel and Eric Schreiber in 2011. I was used to people complaining that the DNR police had an
Michigan fish smaller today? Study says yes, but not all anglers have noticed
Two separate pieces of news from late 2025 have Michigan angler Todd Hutton eager to take notes on the fish he catches in early 2026.
The first news item: Michigan DNR stocked 19.5 million
New York Fishing Report – March 6-13, 2026
Over the past week, lower Niagara River boaters were catching high numbers of steelhead, lake trout and brown trout, with the occasional walleye mixed in.
Dave Maloney, Pa. lawmaker vocal on hunting, fishing issues, opting to leave ‘corruption of politics’
A state legislator who has long been vocal on hunting and fishing issues and who has been a thorn in the side of the Pennsylvania Game Commission confirmed he will not seek re-election at the
A little learning about some little (but important) fish in Illinois
Recently, I spent a day showing fourth-grade students the flora and fauna that live in or next to many of Illinois’ lakes. We looked at animal tracks in the mud on the shoreline, counted shells
Two tainted Pennsylvania creeks taken off trout-stocking list
The Pennsylvania Fish & Boat Commission removed two streams from its trout stocking list after high levels of a “forever chemical” were found in sampled fish tissue.
On Feb. 27, the agency said trout
Meet Laura Yeates… Bethlehem, Pa.’s ‘queen of the flatheads’
On the Delaware River, Laura Yeates rules.
At 41, Yeates, of Bethlehem, has caught enough big catfish to have earned the title Flathead Queen. It started about six years ago when the father of
