Fishing
August is prime time for salmon on Lake Michigan; here’s where to target them
August is prime time for salmon on the Great Lakes. Both kings and cohos begin homing in on ports where they were stocked years earlier or staging off river mouths where they were naturally reproduced.<br
Catching flatheads — the venerable king of the catfish
Common folklore says you can only catch flathead catfish on live bait. True, flatheads love live bait, but many are caught on cut bait and artificial lures.
Another tale is you must fish at
Outdoor Insights: Shining some light on the ‘Make America Beautiful Again Commission’
In the middle of public lands and roadless rules debates, another announcement slipped past the nation’s outdoors media earlier this month. On Thursday, July 3, the Trump administration issued an executive order establishing a Make
Lake Erie celebrated: Governor’s Fish Ohio Day
Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine and Lt. Gov. Jim Tressel joined a host of other walleye fishermen on Lake Erie Wednesday, July 16, to celebrate the 45th Governor’s Fish Ohio Day.
New York DEC confirms new state record brook trout from the Adirondacks
It’s been 12 years since New York’s brook trout record was last broken. But Ben Ferguson’s 6-pound, 3-ounce brookie, landed July 5 in the St. Regis Canoe Area in the Adirondacks, resets the bar for
Want to travel far and fish well? Tips for packing light in canoe country
From my first Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness trip when I was in fifth grade to my latest, there have been two constants that seem to be inescapable: I will never find peace or enjoyment
Mike Schoonveld: Be sure your fishing sunglasses are doing everything they should
Every day of the year commemorates someone or something, and when I checked www.timeanddate.com to check the exact sunrise time where I planned to fish, I inadvertently learned the 27th had been proclaimed Helen Keller
Ohio’s outdoors trailblazers: Doug Clifford fishes for peace of mind
For as long as he can remember, Doug Clifford has been in the business of educating kids – on and off the water.
But, it was an encounter with a childhood neighbor that really
Jeffrey Frischkorn: Ultra-popular in Europe, but not so much for carp in the United States
If ever a poster child for invasive species existed, the barbel-face of the common carp would strike a defining pose on any biological wanted poster. For good reason, at least in the United States. Back
