Tips & Features
Ask a fisheries biologist: What are “triploid” fish?
Stocking a new fish species into a lake can change it forever, particularly if the stocked fish begin reproducing. In those scenarios, it might never be possible to get rid of that new species. We
Minnesota 12-year-old fishes with a purpose for cancer awareness
When Khloe Thorson landed fish No. 80, her mother asked her a simple, direct question.
“I asked her if she wanted to stop,” said Meranda Gonska. “But her answer was an emphatic no. She
Jeff Frischkorn: Coveting thoughts lead to angling excellence
“Thou shalt not covet …” (The 10th Commandment)
It was an expressed point of view I had long coveted to hear from Grace, our oldest grandchild fisherperson. “Whew, my arms are tired,” said Grace
Spring turkeys: Time to battle with a worthy adversary, no matter how dumb they seem sometimes
How can something so seemingly crafty sometimes be so dumb?
That’s the charming paradox of the wild turkey: as dumb as the proverbial box of rocks and so thick we call a foolish, inept,
With snow gone, it’s time to spring into deer scouting
A few years ago, during spring, I was tramping through some bottomland with my yellow Lab, Daisy.
As we walked a piece of high ground surrounded by a bottomland bog, Daisy, as a good
A trout pilgrimage to Ernest Hemingway’s “Big Two-Hearted River” (Part 1)
When I was a young newspaper reporter in Chicago with short vacations and little money, I used to drive to the Upper Peninsula of Michigan to fish the Big Two-Hearted River, made famous by Ernest
Bob Gwizdz: The best time to go fishing is whenever you can
We were fishing for Atlantic salmon, one of Jim Chamberlin’s favorite fish, on Michigan’s Torch Lake, one of his favorite fishing holes.
Atlantics, Chamberlin says, are “challenging, good fighting fish, extremely good to eat
White bass run in Ohio may come a bit early this year
While the white bass migration in Ohio peaks around mid-May, catchable numbers often linger to the end of the month. The timing and duration of the spawn is governed by the weather. No guarantee predicting
Don’t miss these April fishing opportunities in Michigan
April has anglers smiling. Winter is finally over, at least mostly… though a mid-April snowstorm is never out of the question.
On the other hand, towards the end of the month, it can be
