David Hart The first warm days of late winter and early spring mean one thing for many anglers. Time to catch crappie. These popular panfish are among the first fish…
Nebraska Game and Parks Commission Submitted by Nebraska Game and Parks Commission LINCOLN, Neb. – It is always the same question this time of year: When is the ice thick enough…
Bob McNally America is blessed with hundreds of great largemouth bass waters. From California to Florida, Minnesota to Louisiana, superb bigmouth fishing can be found almost everywhere. And while it’s…
Bob Jensen When we go ice fishing, obviously it has to be cold outside. But there’s a difference between twenty degrees above zero cold and twenty degrees below zero cold.…
David Hart As a guide on South Carolina’s Hilton Head Island, Capt. Brian Vaughn has a wealth of options. So many, in fact, he not only has a hard time…
Ken Cook Bass tournament season will shift into high gear later this month. Rare is it in this day that pros get a chance to wet a line in a…
Horace LaFavor The First Fishing Folly is sponsored each year by the Carp Anglers Group, a non-profit organization dedicated to promoting the sport of carp fishing throughout North America. It is a one day event…
Ken Barrett There’s something magical, and even a bit surreal, about walking out on a frozen lake, drilling or chopping a hole through the ice, lowering a line down into…
Bob McNally For every angler, and most particularly for the serious angler, the ability to tie proper fishing knots is vitally important. It is one of the most critical factors…
Ken Barrett Sitting in the dark house with a spear in my hand, I sat motionless, staring intently through a hole in the ice, waiting for a northern pike to…
Bob McNally Some anglers believe the heyday of fishing for trophy largemouth bass on public lakes is over. They think a trophy bass of, say, 8-pounds or more, is about…
Hank Parker For many anglers and boat owners, the onset of winter means an end to the boating season. As temperatures continue to drop around the country, it is now…
Jim Duckworth As seen on theoutdoorwire.com When fishing for blacknose crappie in highland reservoirs, the first thing you have to do is throw the crappie rule book away because they haven’t…
Babe Winkelman I recently returned from the Northwest Bay on Rainy Lake in Ontario where we were walleye fishing. Boy were we excited going into that trip because anglers were…
Ken Cook If it’s not snow or freezing rain, it’s bone-chilling air temperatures and icy winds that make a day on the water nearly insufferable. But just because you’re uncomfortable,…
David Dunbar As seen on MyBuckStory.com I was taking two buddies fall turkey hunting about two years ago. We decided to camp on the farm I normally hunt and split…
Bob Jensen As we get further into the autumn period, the weather gets a little cooler. It’s generally not bitterly cold this time of year and, in fact, the weather…
Travis Peterson Today’s angler can still find the old “Five-o-Diamonds” spoon that his grandfather stocked in his tackle box. Some things never change. Walk through a tackle shop today, though,…
Beau Beasley “You gonna set the hook on those fish, Beau?” Eric Stroup asked me sternly. Stroup had asked me to fish Spring Creek in central Pennsylvania, a stream famous…
Bob Jensen Fall provides a lot of fishing opportunities. Most fish, whether they live in lakes, rivers, reservoirs, or ponds go on a bite in the autumn months. River fish…
Babe Winkelman If you live and fish in the Northern states, one of the toughest decisions we make is WHEN to winterize the boat/outboard. It’s so sad to put it…
Larry Nixon In the old days, just to catch fish this time of year we had to go shallow and capitalize on bass chasing big shad in the backs of…
