
Metro Area Fishing Report – March 8, 2026 – video
What a change a week brings – like a complete 180 from just days ago. Most of it has to do with weather and ice (access/shoreline) conditions, but the fishing is really good.

What a change a week brings – like a complete 180 from just days ago. Most of it has to do with weather and ice (access/shoreline) conditions, but the fishing is really good.

Two subjects that I don’t discuss with anyone other than family and close friends are politics and religion. They are personal, and I long ago concluded that what I think might be the most persuasive

I started repeating the tale about the time I went on a ride-along with DNR officers Rich Riedel and Eric Schreiber in 2011. I was used to people complaining that the DNR police had an

Two separate pieces of news from late 2025 have Michigan angler Todd Hutton eager to take notes on the fish he catches in early 2026.
The first news item: Michigan DNR stocked 19.5 million

Look to catch walleyes and bass here on jigs/minnows, swimbaits, or other slow-moving presentations along current seams and in deeper holes.

Over the past week, lower Niagara River boaters were catching high numbers of steelhead, lake trout and brown trout, with the occasional walleye mixed in.

Winter holding tight, but bass, panfish starting transition. Here’s a look at the Michigan fishing report on March 6, 2026.

A state legislator who has long been vocal on hunting and fishing issues and who has been a thorn in the side of the Pennsylvania Game Commission confirmed he will not seek re-election at the

Recently, I spent a day showing fourth-grade students the flora and fauna that live in or next to many of Illinois’ lakes. We looked at animal tracks in the mud on the shoreline, counted shells
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