When I was a kid, the only thing I ever wanted to be was a professional bass fisherman. On Saturday mornings while the others were watching cartoons, I would wake up, pour myself a bowl of Lucky ...

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 ...

Entire aisles at Bass Pro Shops, Gander Mountain and Cabela's are lined with hundreds of different trout lure and baits. Sometimes it seems the vast selection might be designed to attract anglers, and ...

With river flows low and gentle, now is a great time to chase trout with stickbaits in the tailwaters below our Ozark reservoirs. Properly trolling a stickbait requires precision. Our favorite ...

The Pocono region offers some of the best trout angling to be found anywhere in the commonwealth, with a multitude of freestone mountain streams — many miles of which are open to public fishing — and ...

Kentucky is home to many waterways, but this winding river is particularly good for fly fishers looking to cash in on some ...

The Holy Grail for trout anglers is a trophy brown trout. Rainbows can grow big in you-catch-em ponds but trophy-sized browns are solitary predators that inhabit big water. In California, a ...

The following entries are the current leaders in the 2013 Big Fish Contest, sponsored by Harrisburg Hunters' and Anglers' Association. There are no entries for lake trout, white perch, flathead ...

As a general rule, half of an ounce isn’t much. Perhaps the weight of a half slice of bread. Then again, there are times when half of an ounce means everything. Such was the case in late April when ...

Don't miss out on the headlines from NSW. Followed categories will be added to My News. When it comes to techniques, most anglers opt for trolling, however I much prefer to actively hunt the fish and ...