Tips & Features
Minnesota’s Pro Tip of the Week: Trout fishing in high, dirty water
This past weekend we faced high water over the banks on a lot of streams due to runoff. The best way I’ve found to compete with this is using flashy baits such as small spinners
Deep snow makes for challenging steelhead opener on Wisconsin’s Brule River
The Brule River looked seductive from the cabin porch as it slipped by in the early morning light. Better yet, her soft murmurs were unlike the enraged rants of years past when melting snow pushed
Christine Thomas: Sowing the seeds of ‘resurrection’
When there was enough snow to play in, the temperatures were too brutal to go out. I am not sure the snowmobile trails ever opened in Portage County.
Memorial bench marks favorite fishing hole for longtime lover of Wisconsin’s Coon Fork Creek
There is a pool on Coon Fork Creek, just downstream from Coon Fork County Park in eastern Eau Claire County, Wis. where the creek slows and deepens momentarily, bordered by sandstone bluffs.
It is a
Bassmaster Classic contenders share their strategies
On media day at the Classic, I posed the same questions to 11 anglers on my interview list. Professional anglers have consistently identified decision making as the primary difference between them and anglers who do
For distance, go with a baitcaster
I was just fine with spinning reels. A 43-inch flathead catfish changed all of that seven years ago. That Scioto River flathead in Ohio fought differently from the blue catfish I had been catching in
Menasha man renews sturgeon patrol to guard against poaching on Wisconsin waters
Fish pirates have largely vanished from the Fox and Wolf rivers in recent decades, but spawning sturgeon from the Winnebago system’s big lakes in east-central Wisconsin still need some watchdogs during their vulnerable journeys of
The great turkey-hunting conundrum: when to move on a hung-up bird
It was a classic turkey standoff. Dad and I had struck gobblers late in the morning – a pair of toms that climbed all over my calls. Our original setup was, I felt, a long
Promoting the Poconos Mountains for Pennsylvania trout
The Poconos Mountains in northeast Pennsylvania can be divided into two sections, the southern ridge and valley area and the elevated northern section.
This is important for anglers because mayflies and such zoom around
