Today we're casting for lake trout from the Niagara shoreline. We're about an hour or two before the rains suppose to come in ...

Today we're keeping it simple: the shoreline + silver Stingeye spinner bait. Fishing doesn't need to be complicated. I found myself with a couple extra hours this morning and grabbed a simple rod, a ...

In-line spinners, spoons, and hardbaits get all the love in the trout game, and rightfully so. These lures have been punishing browns, rainbows, and brookies for many decades. As the old adage goes, ...

“It’s very interesting to fish streams that you have fished for years with fly tackle, but with spin tackle. It’s like fishing a different body of water, or rather, you fish it differently, so it ...

There are few fly anglers who can take full advantage of the Driftless. Getting the drop on prime holes here can be a headache. Spin casting for trout here will get you into most of the nooks and ...

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 ...

For many of us, the classic inline spinner represents the first artificial lure on which we duped a stream-dwelling trout, a significant milestone in an angler’s progression, one that likely started ...