When you’re getting ready to cast your fishing line, are you adding a bobber, float or strike indicator? Bobbers have come a long way from being just a plastic red and white ball sitting a couple feet ...

The mountains are showing fall colors everywhere you look. Vail is spectacular now with the aspens in perfect unison. The recent weather has felt like autumn. Trout are presenting opportunities for ...

All traditional tackle techniques used today began as nontraditional methods. In the timeline of angling history, free-lining live croaker is a recent development. And since the inception of using a ...

About the time winter slows the catching of warm-water fish, trout bite with more enthusiasm than most anglers show for getting out and catching them. A stretch of frigid, teeth-chattering days in ...

Around the time Black Friday shoppers are lining up for “midnight madness” sales, I pull into the empty Seneca travel plaza off I-90 in Victor, New York. Caffeine and tryptophan have been at war in my ...

One of the best ways to catch fish, for the next few months especially but even year-round, is with the old standard shad dart and minnow below a float. I caught my largest pond pickerel, weighing ...

Summer is peak fishing season in Idaho — and it feels like it’s already packing its bags. Oftentimes, the problem becomes squeezing all your trips into the short window of golden summer weather! One ...

Some of us just float through life. Christa Clasgens has figured out a way to make a living at it. Clasgens is the owner of ...

The Christmas holiday break is a good time to consider new options to enjoy the outdoors. If you are lucky enough to get a few gift cards to your favorite sports shop, now is a good time to think ...

MANITOWOC - Unlocked from the icy grip of winter, the river bounced and ran on its course to Lake Michigan. Every few minutes, a stray ice chunk floated downstream. But for early spring, the current ...

What if the most reliable summer escape wasn’t built, but formed over time? The rivers of Missouri’s Ozarks are not curated attractions. They are natural systems, fed by springs, shaped by limestone, ...

Just months after the federal government closed on a land exchange with a billionaire, a proposal to institute a permit system on the Blue River has ignited a conversation about river access and ...