The season soon ringeth for pikeheads. Toothies are stationing to strike. You’ve prepared for this every spring for umpteen years. Your ducks are in a row with your favorite rods, reels, and riggings,...View article
Many veteran anglers note that fishing today, particularly for bass and walleye, hasn’t been better in our lifetimes, thanks to a variety of factors. First, angler willingness to release large fish...View article
Standing there coffee in hand, jig stick in the other, distracted by a distant deer walking across the ice, my pocket was picked, the rod about to go down the hole. Moment frozen in time, coffee sacrificed...View article
Vikings called it the “all thing,” or “thing of all.” Some native Americans called it a sun dance, others a pow wow. Most of us call it a family reunion. When the disparate, far-flung portions...View article
You can only learn so much by studying muskies above water, Don Schwartz tells me during late fall 2007, as we set up to record lures trolled closely behind downrigger balls on which underwater cameras...View article
Growing up in Alaska and fishing for salmon all my life, I learned to fish with spoons around the same time I learned to ride a bike and read a book. Spoons are deadly against aggressive predators in...View article
Spoons fish well because they offer weight for casting, even into wind and on heavier tackle, and rarely, if ever, need tuning in spite of punishing abuse, though you might have to change hooks. Most...View article
In certain trout-happy sections of North America, pike get as much respect as sea lampreys and bighead carp. In parts of Alaska, pike, though native, have been regarded as unfit for human consumption,...View article
One concept we have long used to get anglers to consider what they’re doing when they’re fishing a lure or a bait is this: The presentation moves we make have two parts, each with different purposes....View article
Something about a fly. It hovers, but not like a suspending bait. It drifts, but not like plastic. It breathes, but not like a hair jig. It moves through the water with its own symmetry, one that crankbaits...View article
