Game and Fish Magazine Provided by Game & Fish Two anglers are fishing from the same boat using the same type jig. One is hooking fish after fish. The other can’t…
Bob McNally The time is right for a well earned summer fishing fling, and it’s great to include the family, too. The trouble with such an angling sabbatical, however, is…
Steve Felgenhauer Scanning the horizon, I thought I saw a movement; there it was again. Just out of range, I slowly trudged forward. This time I was ready. Coming to…
Beau Beasley As anglers head out to the streams and rivers this fishing season, they will once again be presented with the age old question, “What pattern should I…
Babe Winkelman There’s something really special about having a secret fishing spot. Maybe it’s a tiny piece of structure that only you know about on a busy lake. Or better…
Bill Cooper Sizzling summertime temperatures are no excuse to stay inside lounging under the AC. In fact, it is the perfect time to enjoy some rod-bending, sizzling-hot bass fishing action…
Keith Sutton By Keith Sutton, Game & Fish John Q. Camper and three of his buddies had spent weeks planning a fishing/camping trip in the mountains. Unfortunately for his friends, the…
Submitted By: Steve Felgenhauer – USA Guest Author I have a confession. I am drawn to a rack of fishing poles like a moth drawn to a flame. Most times…
Bob Jensen Walleye season is here or very near throughout walleye country. There are several good ways to catch walleyes in the spring. Minnow shaped stick baits can be good. …
Ken Cook Already April is almost over, and summer will be here soon. This is a great time of year for fishing. Anglers from coast to coast are furiously in…
Doug Howlett Scott Garris remembers the insanity. Big trucks trolling the beach near Oregon Inlet searching the surf for roiling packs of blue fish, running frenzied prey ashore. “Anglers would…
Bob McNally It’s the unexpected good things in fishing that we so often remember with such clarity, like the spring afternoon my wife Chris and I were in the middle…
Beau Beasley Shad, members of the herring family, are an anadromous fish; that is, they’re born in fresh water and then migrate to saltwater, where they live until they reach…
Ned Kehde By Ned Kehde, In-Fisherman Constantine Rafinesque, the renowned French naturalist, found white bass in abundance along the banks of the Ohio River in the early 1800s. During Rafinesque’s day,…
Submitted By: Steve Felgenhauer, USA Guest Author What kid doesn’t dream of pitching in the World Series or standing on the podium to receive a gold medal at the…
Beau Beasley It was half past two in the morning when the alarm went off at Fire Station 25. The sound jolted me out of an unsteady sleep, and I…
Bob McNally No fish are more game than tarpon. They jump like crazed banshees; are remarkably strong; readily strike bass-size plugs, flies and bait; are abundant in many places; and…
Luke Clausen More often than not, bass fishing is an exercise in faith—faith in your knowledge to know the one spot where the fish will be in a huge lake.…
USA Staff Feel free to talk politics or opine about religion, but in certain circles the topic of whether or not to fish for bass during the spawn can cause…
Bob McNally Panfishing from a float tube is easy, inexpensive fishing, not requiring all the equipment trappings of boats and motors, fathometers, and lockers full of fishing tackle. By its…
Bob Jensen Fifty degree weather, drizzle and receding snow have reminded me that the open water fishing season is fast approaching. Following are some fishing ideas that I am going…
Beau Beasley The East can boast its fair share of fine steelhead streams, but few of those waters have the street cred, or the fish, of Elk Creek in northwestern…