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
Rainbows, browns, cutthroats, brookies. Strong fighting, coldwater species, often active—if not fiercely aggressive—throughout winter. That’s not to say these fish can’t be finicky. Adverse...View article
In Northwest Ontario, anglers count down the days in December, not to Christmas, but to the January 1 lake trout opener. I live in Kenona, on the north shore of Lake of the Woods, in the heart of some...View article
While fish share many of the same basic organs as you and I, they do have some unique attributes.Cold-Blooded—To begin, fish don’t maintain a higher body temperature...View article
Ah, if only the rest of the fishing season were as predictable as the spring fling into the shallows! Unfortunately, it isn’t. The good news, however, is that regardless of lake, river, or reservoir...View article
Stream trout—rainbows, browns, and brookies—probably prefer open water over their heads at all times, but many are stocked in ponds, lakes and reservoirs throughout the frozen north. Being coldwater...View article
Classic lake trout patterns persist at first-ice or at season openings, which vary by state and province. One classic opener is the January 1 beginning to the season in Northwest Ontario, a date which...View article
Of all the major species anglers pursue in the wintertime, lake trout may be the most accommodating. Unlike walleye, sauger, crappies, bluegills, pike or perch, all of them sluggish and selective in...View article
We were set about a decade ago to fly into one of the famous lake trout fisheries of the far north. The lodge on this lake set up the trip, we would go to film TV footage, and they hoped the rest of...View article
Luck of the Irish, they say, and I believe it after fishing alongside Gary McEnelly (In-Fisherman’s former financial officer) the past five years during our annual “trout opener” trip into northwest...View article
