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
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 muskie fishing on busy waters, the fish-to-angler ratio shrinks to the narrowest of margins. We used to think it was us against the fish, but now most of us know we’re also competing with all those...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
Most of us observe fishing history through the eyes of those who’ve recorded notable events for posterity, trusting their accounts to tell us what transpired. A lucky few view it through the prism...View article
To most of us, in most situations muskies are fish best pursued with heavy tackle and big lures. These freshwater monsters are capable of shredding lighter gear, and deserving of a quick battle...View article
When it happens at a distance, and it often does, you can just barely see and feel the subtle wobble and flash of the lure as it’s gently pulled forward, left, then right—then left-right. You’re...View article
