Featured Fishing Articles

Catfish fishing is widespread, the fish are plentiful, and it’s just plain fun; not to mention delicious eating. Some gourmets claim it’s the finest tasting fish around. However, if you want to enjoy eating catfish you must first catch it. And, contrary to what you might have heard, the usually hungry catfish won’t gobble any bait... [Read more....]

Northern pike fishing is both challenging and exciting. Known as Esox Lucius to fisheries experts, this rod-breaking chunk of battling fish grows to huge proportions in favorable waters. Noted for his strength and wiliness, lunkers aren’t caught until creeled. The whoppers that get away would stretch tail to tail for miles. Native to cold water... [Read more....]

Trolling is another very popular method of fishing much favored by old timers, and this too is a good way to get fish, even when other types of fishing will not deliver. It takes more skill than skittering. The angler must know what kinds of lures are best under certain conditions. He must know how to ascertain at what depth the fish are feeding, and... [Read more....]

Ounce for ounce, the bluegill is undoubtedly one of the scrappiest sport fish. Fishermen value it not only because it’s fun to catch but also because it makes up an important source of food for other sport fish. This little sunfish is abundant in most areas of the United States. Although not native to all parts of the country, it has been widely... [Read more....]

In spite of being one of the larger panfish of the sunfish family, the warmouth is a shy fish. It prefers lakes or ponds with mud bottoms and containing a great many weeds, stumps, and other hiding places. This sunfish at maturity may reach a pound in weight and about a foot in length. Average size of warmouth caught by most anglers, however, is much... [Read more....]

The steelhead is a rainbow trout with the wanderlust of a salmon. This fish migrates to the ocean or to large lakes such as the upper Great Lakes for a few years and then returns to fresh-water streams. Returning from the sea, it is silvery in color and is usually much larger than non-migratory rainbow trout. After the steelhead has spent a few weeks... [Read more....]

The big, impressive western trout rivers have become so famous that one whole aspect of western trout fishing is largely overlooked. The big rivers are great, there’s no question about that, but it is in the little spring creeks where you’ll find the greatest trout fishing challenges. Spring creeks are natural tributaries to many of the... [Read more....]

Any outdoorsman, who is adept at stalking whitetail deer in scrub oak thickets, has the credentials to become a top beaver pond fisherman. The qualifications are rigid and patience is the main ingredient. But the rewards are very satisfying. Wherever the beaver thrives in the United States and Canada, anglers find a brand of fishing with its own rules... [Read more....]