A nightcrawler harness is a time-tested, proven, multi-hook rig used to present live nightcrawlers in a slow but efficient and enticing way. They are especially effective for targeting walleye. The ...

My sonar unit registered a large school of crappies suspended over one of Lake Arthur’s submerged creek channels. The bulk of the fish appeared to be holding in 8 or 9 feet of water over the 13-foot ...

Cool mornings followed by Indian summer afternoons mark the arrival of my favorite time of year to fish. Even though there ...

Something about bobber fishing has hooked me since childhood. It is there, very real and so enticing, but I can’t exactly tell you why it is so appealing. Perhaps it is the cadence of the float as it ...

DEVILS LAKE -- Dustin Larson had a game plan to put walleyes in the boat on this early June morning: Pitch jigs and soft plastic tails along the edge of a shallow flooded shoreline and cover water.

But the big bluegills, the ones large enough to put some bend in your rod and fillets on the platter, are now spending their time in deeper water. When I fish bluegill at this time of the year, I am ...

Those four little words will put any angler on tilt. Old or young, novice or expert, there’s something about a dancing bobber that stirs an instinctive adrenaline rush. What kind of fish is thinking ...

From nightcrawler harness how to for walleye, to slip bobber tips, to 5 ways to become a better angler, these stories captured our Sports Illustrated fishing reader’s attention on Fishing on SI this ...