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New York’s Orange County D.A. reveals the 4th annual fishing derby winners
Orange County District Attorney David M. Hoovler recently announced the winners of the fourth District Attorney’s Office Youth Fishing Derby.
The derby, which ran from April 1 to Sept. 2, was open to children

Black ice, big trout (and walleyes, too)
Eager footsteps grounded in common-sense trepidation guide our way out onto the first few inches of jet-black “glass.”
Every hit of the spud bar resonates through our eardrums. Flashes of light from the headlamp catch

January fishing in Michigan means mixed ice opportunities on Mullett, Burt, and Black
In the winter of 2023-2024, I didn’t go ice fishing once. I might have been able to sneak out once or twice if it’d been a huge priority, but I didn’t.
Given the poor

Approached correctly, winter stream trout fishing in southeast Minnesota offers uniqueness, serenity
It was, in retrospect, an incandescently stupid mistake.
I obviously didn’t listen close enough to the weather terrorists on television the previous night. Surely our indispensable news-meteorologists would have warned me about the biting

Go shallow for early-ice panfish in New York
Go shallow in the early ice season: go deeper in the shank of winter: go shallow again as the ice season melts away. Many members of the “Frozen Chozen” will attest there is truth to

Try this ‘glowing’ strategy to catch more crappies through the ice
My knees were starting to bang together. I wish I could’ve pulled the ice hole closer to the little fire I’d constructed but that was physically impossible.
The sun was deep into the high

State Roundup: Driving trucks on Wisconsin ice on Dec. 17? Hold on a second
Hold on here for just a second now folks – it’s too early to be driving trucks on the ice, no? What? Yes. We received reports last week, Dec. 17, that there were already guys

How to fillet a bluegill, and fast – video
Here’s the quickest way to clean a bluegill or sunfish boneless and skinless with a conventional knife.

Two Wisconsin fishermen break through thin ice, drown
A pair of tragic ice fishing accidents that occurred Sunday and Monday, Dec. 8-9, has Wisconsin and federal safety officials warning anglers to use extreme caution or even stay off of thin, early-season ice, especially