Tips & Features
Steve Carney: Sometimes, being shallow (when ice fishing) is a good thing
I’ve made it my mission this winter to do most of my crappie and bluegill fishing in shallow water – anywhere from 5 to 7 feet. I’ve had some slow days and some excellent days
Thoughts on the latest cameras for ice fishing and low-light panfish
Underwater cameras are old technology in the modern world of fishing electronics, but they’re still an effective tool for finicky panfish.
Dean Bortz: Muskies unusually active in Wisconsin this winter
Hey, no one gets upset about catching a muskie, right? I mean, we’re talking about the famous “Fish of 10,000 Casts” here, so you’d think anyone would be excited about catching a muskie, even if
Joe Albert: There’s fishing… and then there’s fishing in Alaska
Aside from seeing “The Goonies” when it was still in theaters in Anchorage, I have pretty much no recollection of my family’s first trip to Alaska in 1985. But my dad caught a big king
Previewing the nation’s top bass fishing tournaments in 2024
The Major League Fishing Bass Pro Tour kicked off in late January at Toledo Bend Reservoir, an 185,000-acre impoundment of the Sabine River that straddles Louisiana and Texas.
Scout trout streams to make sure you are ready for Pennsylvania’s opening day
Several years ago, a buddy and I drove to a small trout stream, where a relatively secluded honey hole always attracted a good number of stocked trout.
We were not sure who put forth
Steve Griffin: Show a little respect for the lowly dogfish
We’d seen several catfish swim beneath us as we sat side-by-side in a battered flip-over shelter on a rare corner of Michigan’s Saginaw Bay that was topped with fishable ice this winter.
We’d watched
Mike Schoonveld: Deep thoughts about fishing with earthworms
I’m not a particularly deep thinker, and most of the time, like when I’m threading a worm on a hook, I’m not thinking much deeper than how deep I should dangle the worm.
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Longear sunfish are feisty fighters of late winter, early spring in Ohio
A longear sunfish is unlike any other. Glimmering fresh from the water, it seems too spectacular to be here, as if had been blown inland from the barrier reef of an exotic land. It is
