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Fish interactions in Upper Mississippi River basin gets closer look to aid management
Extending from southern Illinois all the way up to Minnesota, the Upper Mississippi River basin’s system comprises an extremely complex network of streams and watersheds.
Little is known about how those systems and the

Catch more bass by avoiding these three follies while fishing frogs
Midsummer fishing for largemouths involves weeds. Lily pads, wild rice, pencil reeds, and other thriving, aquatic vegetation can make fishing a real challenge. Couple that with the fact that all of that summer growth gives

Lake Erie/Western New York Fishing Report – July 21-28, 2023
The walleye bite is still going strong out of all ports.

Metro Area Fishing Report – July 23, 2023 – video
Some consistency this past week. Solid week of summer fishing.

Michigan Outdoor News Fishing Report – July 23, 2023 – video
Fishing has slowed a bit across the state. Still fish being caught, just not as hot of a bite as a little earlier this summer.

A longtime angling advocate, Minnesota’s Frank Schneider Jr. would’ve approved of 2023 support for fishing
This is a good time to remember Frank Schneider Jr. Until he died in 2005 at the age of 86, Frank was a one-man force on behalf of fishing. Unpaid and unafraid, Frank attended countess

Put a charge into slow summer fishing by targeting carp on artificials
It was the perfect time of year for the method I was employing.
Discarded crayfish shells lined the shallows, and there were a lot of fish looking to feed on the soft-shelled morsels they

Fishing the Hex hatch in Michigan: Both maddening and magical
We noticed the mayflies in the air at around 10:30 p.m. and within minutes the fish were feeding.
There was a pair that sounded like good ones feeding within earshot – one upstream, one

Perfect your presentations during tough river fishing in the heat of summer
Spring is a magical time for an angler to be wading in a river.
Summer is a different story. Quality fish are not where I left them in the spring. Conditions change, the fish