Fishing for bass on their spawning beds has always been a touchy subject. Though it’s very easy to say that disrupting them while they’re trying to replenish future stocks sounds wrong, the reality is ...

The fly fishing world is never short on opinions about etiquette and ethics. Debates rage on the internet and riverbank about the proper way to catch and release, the necessity of pinching barbs, and ...

I rounded the corner and there he stood, posturing like a human version of a great blue heron. Power Poles down and eyes fixed on the shallows, Todd Driscoll was clearly on point. There was a bass ...

After a dry summer, Chester Morse Lake, the city's main water reservoir behind Masonry Dam on the Cedar River, rose nearly 6 feet following last week's storm -- and that's good news for salmon and ...

With Memorial Day in the rearview and summer break underway, you have a better chance of colliding with a JetSki than a with spawning bass on most lakes and rivers in the U.S. But there’s still a ...

This Sept. 9, 2020 photo provided by the Idaho Department of Fish and Game shows Idaho Department of Fish and Game fisheries biologist Eli Felts looking down at Loon Creek to count chinook salmon ...

For 25 years as a Wisconsin fisheries biologist, Superior’s Dennis Pratt worked to improve fish habitat on the Brule River. Now he’s seeing firsthand the results of that work - and you can, too. Using ...

It’s here—the time that every bass angler waits all year for. Time to starting gearing up for, planning for, and taking full advantage of the annual bass spawn, when fish concentrate in the shallows ...

If you work the beds right, there's no reason you can't pull 50 to 75 off of a bed. "That's just a matter of starting far out and picking the fish off from farther away, and then easing your way in ...