Fishing
Read the water to catch Ohio’s hybrid stripers
Hybrid stripers in rivers are not oriented to cover as much as they use the fluid dynamics of flowing water to their advantage. They seek specific flow patterns to thrive in open water, the areas
Fish the ‘pocket’ water: Where overlooked runs hold big trout potential
Stream trout anglers are largely creatures of habit.
I say largely because there are exceptions to every rule. Still, the stream trout anglers I’ve fished with and learned from over the years adhere to
Great memories made fishing, railroading on Pennsylvania’s Pine Creek in the 1970s
Some of my favorite memories fishing in northern Pennsylvania and southern New York are along Pine Creek and the Genesee River in the 1970s using a now-defunct railroad to travel portions of these waters from
Kentucky project aimed at bigger bass makes key finding
Bigger bass that are more aggressive in chasing an angler’s plastic worm from one end of the lake to the other?
Roughly 96.2% of Illinois fishermen responded, “yes, sign me up!”
That, of
Kristin Ojaniemi: Snowmobiles help access big fish in backwoods lakes
What I enjoy the most about ice fishing is how accessible it is, or so I thought. You don’t really need a ton of gear – a sled, auger, a bucket to double as seat
Spring is a great time to target all Ohio’s Muskingum River has to offer
The Muskingum River watershed circulates the life blood of eastern Ohio, a massive 8,051 square miles, through all or part of 27 counties, the major cities of Akron, Mt. Vernon, Mansfield, Marietta, Newark, Canton, Zanesville,
Wisconsin Mixed Bag: April trout season opener kicks in this year
The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources (DNR) reminds anglers that the 2026-27 inland trout season will open on Saturday, April 4 and run through Oct. 15, increasing harvest opportunities throughout the state’s inland streams, springs
Wisconsin NRB poses questions on DNR license fee increases
While most of the focus falls on Wisconsin DNR fish and wildlife questions or Conservation Congress advisory questions during the annual spring fish and game hearings, the Natural Resources Board (NRB) may also offer advisory
Ask a fisheries biologist: What research is saying about the impact of forward-facing sonar
In early February, the Wisconsin Chapter of the American Fisheries Society met in La Crosse. One conference topic heavily overlapped conversations among anglers: the effects of fishing technology.
In recent years, advanced sonar systems,
