
Winter trout: With the right flies, tactics, streams produce
The usual method of fly-fishing in winter is nymph-fishing. The flow of the stream will determine how large you might want your nymph to be. Winter flows can vary considerably.

The usual method of fly-fishing in winter is nymph-fishing. The flow of the stream will determine how large you might want your nymph to be. Winter flows can vary considerably.

As the stars skid over the sky there is a tap on your line. The rod that seemed silent now shouts with a hard, reactive pull.

Berea, Ohio — Dennis Knowles and his wife, Gail Grizzell, are lifetime anglers. Grizzell learned at her mother’s knee while Knowles forged his fishing skills under the tutelage of his Uncle Ulysses.

Little fishing going on as anglers awaiting ice.

Brief window opens, then slams shut on ice fishing.

The ice fishing season still is trying to find its groove.

An 8-pound largemouth bass from Crab Orchard Lake. A 4.8-pound crappie at Kinkaid Lake. A 51.75-inch muskie caught in northern Minnesota.
What would it take for a fish outside of the “cool species crowd”

A hunter-harvested 2-year-old doe and is the first confirmed wild CWD-positive deer in Buffalo County.

Cold snap comes, goes – leaves a mixed bag of success behind around the state.
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