Fishing Articles

The Smolt Bite by Jim Bedford
As featured in Great Lakes Angler—April/May 2013 Each spring hundreds of thousands of chinook, coho, and steelhead smolts migrate from the Great Lakes’ tributaries down to the big lakes. In...
The Smolt Bite by Jim Bedford
As featured in Great Lakes Angler—April/May 2013 Each spring hundreds of thousands of chinook, coho, and steelhead smolts migrate from the Great Lakes’ tributaries down to the big lakes. In...

How to Hot-Wire a King Salmon by Matt Straw
In recent years we learned king salmon range deeper in the water column than ever before believed. Spooky kings commonly descend right to the bottom in depths of 700 feet...
How to Hot-Wire a King Salmon by Matt Straw
In recent years we learned king salmon range deeper in the water column than ever before believed. Spooky kings commonly descend right to the bottom in depths of 700 feet...

Custom Pluggin’ by Mark Romanack (Fishing 411 TV)
I’m just old enough that wooden and plastic hard baits that wobble will forever be called “plugs” in my play book. The modern name of “crankbait” has become the mainstream...
Custom Pluggin’ by Mark Romanack (Fishing 411 TV)
I’m just old enough that wooden and plastic hard baits that wobble will forever be called “plugs” in my play book. The modern name of “crankbait” has become the mainstream...

Trolling Plastics and Hair for Walleye By Matt ...
The transom slaps into the waves with rhythmic percussion. The light rods load slightly, their soft arcs reaching out over the water. At the tip, the line takes a right...
Trolling Plastics and Hair for Walleye By Matt ...
The transom slaps into the waves with rhythmic percussion. The light rods load slightly, their soft arcs reaching out over the water. At the tip, the line takes a right...

The New Deep for King Salmon by Matt Straw
Author with a brace of "sublime to ridiculous" steelhead taken on top while working other lines deep. Deep currents get the water moving just under the surface, too—and steelhead...
The New Deep for King Salmon by Matt Straw
Author with a brace of "sublime to ridiculous" steelhead taken on top while working other lines deep. Deep currents get the water moving just under the surface, too—and steelhead...

Casting Big Water: Snap-Jerk-Power-Rip Jigging ...
What do brown trout, muskies, bass, reds, blues, sharks, walleyes, pike, and salmon have in common? Obviously, they’re all fish. But a violent response to rip jigging would be accepted....
Casting Big Water: Snap-Jerk-Power-Rip Jigging ...
What do brown trout, muskies, bass, reds, blues, sharks, walleyes, pike, and salmon have in common? Obviously, they’re all fish. But a violent response to rip jigging would be accepted....