If you’re anything like me, it never fails that your perfect cast of the topwater plug to that big largemouth bass lurking just under the lily pad is smacked instead by a 6-inch pickerel.
Smallmouths biting inland, Chinook on fire on big water. Here’s the Michigan fishing report on July 24, 2026.
From west of Sturgeon Point to the Pennsylvania line, Lake Erie anglers report great action in 60-80 feet of water, on gear run in the bottom 30 feet.
Here’s a look at the Iowa fishing report across the state on July 24, 2026.
Portions of the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness could reopen to overnight visitors July 30, a little more than two weeks after a surge of wildfires prompted the U.S. Forest Service to close the wilderness.<br
It was an opportunity to go fishing on Lake Erie with Capt. Mark Mohr of One Mohr Sportfishing. That alone should have been enough incentive. That alone should have been enough incentive.
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State game lands have a huge positive impact on the state’s economy and don’t inhibit private development or shortchange local municipal coffers. That’s the conclusion of a study commissioned by the Pennsylvania Game Commission.
Over the past few years I’ve listened to dozens of podcasts discussing concerns about the future of hunting, fishing, and shooting sports. Hunters today represent a smaller share of the population than they did a
Fishing stories rarely start with “I was reading a John Sanford novel in a lounge chair by the lake.”
But this one does. It does because that’s exactly what I was doing this spring
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