I’ve got a few tattoos, one of which is a trout—a big hook-jaw brown on my leg. It’s fair to say that trout are my favorite freshwater species, and I’ve been fishing for them since I was a wee tiny ...

What’s the best bait for trout? It’s a tough question, and that’s a good thing. Today’s trout fisher has a wide range of store-bought trout bait—along with trout lures and trout spinning reels—to ...

When I was a kid, the only thing I ever wanted to be was a professional bass fisherman. On Saturday mornings while the others were watching cartoons, I would wake up, pour myself a bowl of Lucky ...

If you stop and think about it, a bass lure is only a bass lure if you’re throwing it for bass. Take the same bait off the lake and chuck in the bay and suddenly it’s a redfish lure. Throw your ...

Seatrout are suckers for soft plastics like this Z-Man Trout Thick Trick. Z-Man Spotted seatrout lures come in a wide array of styles because trout are generally more than willing to slam an ...

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With opening day of trout season – April 13 – fast approaching, some anglers have already been wetting a line in Delayed Harvest Artificial Lures Only streams across the state. Not only do these ...

As the calendar turns to October, fall colors are starting to make their annual appearance. And while I enjoy the vibrant reds, oranges and yellows as much as the next guy, there’s one fall color that ...

When Joe Murphy of Oconomowoc and I gathered at 5:30 a.m. on the ides of December, the Milwaukee River valley just north of downtown Milwaukee was calm and dark. The only exceptions came from our ...

Ice season has been slow to arrive, but once it did it has been some great fishing. Please use caution as you venture on to the ice, we have variable ice conditions on all our ...

Erie is known for its steelhead trout in the fall and winter, but large brown trout are out there, too. Compared to the 1 million steelhead that the Pennsylvania Fish and Boat Commission release into ...