Commercial salmon fishermen have depended on attractors, especially dodgers, for half a century or more and continue to depend on them today. Les Davis, inventor of the famous Herring Dodger, observed...View article
Without oxygen, life ends. Just ask the minnows panting in your bucket or those belly-up bass in the harbor after a tournament. Our own need for oxygen is painfully evident if we go without it for even...View article
Opal eyes course through a blue-green world on the border of light penetration. Rising over the edge of a precipice on the last major break leading into the benthic depths, walleyes surge into schools...View article
The ice has finally dissipated, bringing the lake back to a liquid form. The river is open once again. The boat and jigs wait eagerly for the weekend to fish first spring 'eyes. Saturday rolls around,...View article
If walleyes are the gilded kings of clear to stained-water rivers and reservoirs, then saugers, their closely related cousins, perhaps are royal family of the down and dirty variety. Common in warmer...View article
Among the most impressive learning experiences for someone like me, who has been writing about catch-and-release fishing for more than 20 years, was hands-on instruction in how easily and effectively...View article