Remember, when fishing big waters and not finding any bites or opportunities, you need to move! Sometimes a few hundred feet, and sometimes a quarter mile or more. Trout and salmon tributary anglers ...

During this transitional time of year, it’s not uncommon for one day of lights-out action to be followed by a total skunking. Even traditional methods of predicting fish behavior like tracking fronts, ...

Who knew crickets could be this effective? Every cast with these live baits brings instant action as fish strike from every ...

This story, “Getting the Bait’s a Bail,” appeared in the May 1970 issue of Outdoor Life. The morning sparkled as bright and shiny as a new dime. The river was clear and purling along, its voices ...

Found in Michigan’s inland lakes and the coastal lips of our Great Lakes bays, Northern Pike are an exciting species to target in the arctic stillness of February. The Esox lucius. Even the scientific ...

Lake Superior anglers have only been spotted in the areas of Chequamegon Bay fishing for smallmouth, walleyes and a few pike ...

Like most anglers of my generation, I started my fishing career using live bait. My first catch was a brook trout that gobbled a garden worm on a long-ago first day of trout season. And while my first ...

Fathead minnows, leeches and worms are mainstays in bait-shop refrigerators across the country. These old standards have pro­duced stringers of game fish for decades, and they’ll continue to produce ...

The fall bite has been pretty good for just about everything and the weather has been pretty cooperative, although this past ...