Thank God they flick their tails. I’d been hearing one bark for five minutes, but it’s only that ­visual cue that reveals the rodent, flattened and frozen against a hickory 30 yards away. I brace the ...

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 ...

ANTIGO – Mepps makes about 8,000 spinning-lure combinations at its 50,000-square-foot manufacturing facility, but if you buy one of its storied spinners with hooks dressed in squirrel-tail, you can ...

French angler Andre Meulnart invented the inline spinner in 1938 while working for a company called Manufacturier d’Engins de Precision pour Peches Sportives. You probably know the brand by its ...

Chris Picco, 21, of Baldwinsville, had great luck recently fishing in the Seneca River in Baldwinsville. He landed two monster trout last week. Andy Picco, his proud dad, wrote me: "My son caught this ...

North-Central Wisconsin is home to several excellent trout fishing streams, offering ample opportunities for rainbow, brown, and the elegantly marked brook trout. While plentiful in our area, make no ...

The Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife has had a sea-run brown trout program for years. It never was spectacular, and over the years many rivers were dropped from the program. But the ...