It’s important to handle bass — especially big ones — properly to avoid damaging their jaw. The safest way is the two-handed horizontal hold, with a thumb gripping the lower lip and a second hand ...

For the past two weeks, my friend, Mike Bruton, has taken me kokanee fishing on Ririe Reservoir while I continue to recuperate from a heart attack. The fishing for kokanee continues to get more ...

Fishing the right depth is the key to catching kokanee in Merwin. “You can have the best lure, best dodger, best presentation, but if you can’t get it in front of the fish you’re not going to catch ...

Winter kokanee fishing is a fairly new phenomenon. Or, it is fairly new to most anglers. Some old-timers, who knew that the landlocked salmon could be caught in December as easily as June, kept it ...

Silver Bow Fly Shop said the St. Joe is rising but is still fishable. Big bugs are taking trout on top and a good March brown hatch has had fish looking up midday. Trout and kokanee Kokanee fishing on ...

Compiled by California Outdoors Hall of Fame member Dave Hurley and edited by Roger George, who guides in the greater Fresno area and holds the striper record at Millerton Lake. In the northern ...

Brad Halleck remembers waking up before sunrise to go fishing at Green Peter Reservoir. “If you didn’t get there by 7 a.m., the parking lots were full,” said Halleck, a longtime angler and board ...

As Captain Kyle Sandy motored away from Mile High Marina, the bustle of McCall faded into the peaceful stillness of our alpine surroundings. And after weeks of near-triple-digit heat in the Treasure ...