Tips & Features
Bigger-than-average pike are in Minnesota waters, but they aren’t easy to find or catch
It wasn’t long ago when if you walked into a mom-and-pop bait shop in the Upper Midwest, you’d see a plus-sized northern pike mounted on the wall. A faded, stuffed pike was almost as ubiquitous
When the river gets high and muddy, go catfishing
I watched Pennsylvania’s Schuylkill River rise from a frisky bulldog flow to something definitely flooded and unfishable.
At first the water carried a slight tinge, like a weak cup of coffee with a little
August is prime time for salmon on Lake Michigan; here’s where to target them
August is prime time for salmon on the Great Lakes. Both kings and cohos begin homing in on ports where they were stocked years earlier or staging off river mouths where they were naturally reproduced.<br
Catching flatheads — the venerable king of the catfish
Common folklore says you can only catch flathead catfish on live bait. True, flatheads love live bait, but many are caught on cut bait and artificial lures.
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Want to travel far and fish well? Tips for packing light in canoe country
From my first Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness trip when I was in fifth grade to my latest, there have been two constants that seem to be inescapable: I will never find peace or enjoyment
Mike Schoonveld: Be sure your fishing sunglasses are doing everything they should
Every day of the year commemorates someone or something, and when I checked www.timeanddate.com to check the exact sunrise time where I planned to fish, I inadvertently learned the 27th had been proclaimed Helen Keller
Ohio’s outdoors trailblazers: Doug Clifford fishes for peace of mind
For as long as he can remember, Doug Clifford has been in the business of educating kids – on and off the water.
But, it was an encounter with a childhood neighbor that really
Steve Carney: Minnesota’s summer switch means a move to leeches, crawlers for walleyes
As we endure the hot summer months, the shift to using leeches and crawlers to catch walleyes is upon us. Minnows are still an option but for summertime walleyes, you can’t beat a lively leech
Pro Fishing Tip of the Week: Easier water’s ahead on Minnesota’s Mississippi River
With that being said, things should start to turn around soon as the river starts to clear. The metabolism of walleyes should start to increase, and that means one thing and one thing only: The
