After hunkering down for the Minnesota winter, we are tilting back toward the sun, and as sunlight energy becomes more direct and intense, our temperatures warm. Spring awakenings are afoot.
As the hours of
It’s almost getting to the point where a fisherman might ask why we even have any closed seasons anymore.
Wisconsin’s stream trout season closure has been pushed into October. This year, on April 4,
It was well after 8 a.m. when my buddy Eric and I launched my boat below a lock and dam on the Mississippi River and motored across the channel to target pre-spawn walleyes and saugers.<br
Some blame the weather while others blame the time of day or the location for the conditions at hand. Tight-lipped crappies start the discussions or become the ongoing arguments over the line used, the lure,
When weather has permitted, Lake Ontario brown trout action has been very good from the Niagara River to east of Rochester.
Crappie, bass bites jump as spring temps settle in. Here’s a look at the Illinois fishing report on April 10, 2026.
The 2026-27 general inland fishing season will open statewide Saturday, May 2, with several new regulations and season structures now in effect. These changes include:
The Lac du Flambeau (LdF) Chippewa tribe announced last week, in an unprecedented action, that its tribal council voted to ban fishing of walleyes and muskies by non-tribal members on a number of lakes inside
Hwy. 10 divides Wisconsin into a southern and northern muskie zone. In the past, the Northern Zone opened the Saturday of Memorial Day weekend. Starting this year, with a rule change, the muskie season opens
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