Packing the truck, I thought to myself, dad had a net in the boat already. But I like my net with its extra long curly maple handle and large hoop. I thought, maybe we need two nets this time. I was ...

Hello folks, today is a great day. It's the first day we're able to get back out onto the (non-frozen) water - and boy did we ...

We're running the American Smelt crankbaits today, the deep dive model. The crankbaits will dive about 20' as we slow troll ...

Robert Riggs and his son Brent carried their small jon boat, trolling motor, and fishing gear to the edge of Mannington Lake in West Virginia the morning of March 28. They readied the boat for fishing ...

Steve Jones, 72, regularly fishes Shaver Lake northeast of Fresno in Central California. He started fishing the lake as a youngster with his father, and he knows it well after all these years. On ...

A great hue and cry produced a prodigious splash last year — like a burly brown trout pursuing a salmonfly. The fuss and fuming focused on trout populations declining since 2011 in the nationally ...

A photo of a beautiful buck brings a reminder of the rut nearing, Illinois trout season opens on Oct. 18 but stocking is delayed and a big freshwater drum earning Fish of the Week honors are among the ...

A dozen malted milk eggs with candy shell, my favorite Easter treat, rattled in my gear bag, there as a reward for intentionally catching a trophy trout. It must be in the net, measured and released ...

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A rainbow trout tagged by FWP as part of its study of fish declines in southwestern Montana rivers. (Image courtesy FWP) You really can’t make this stuff up. Last week Montana’s Department of Fish, ...

“They take active work to preserve.” The Big Hole River, as seen from Burma Road between Twin Bridges and Glen on Friday, Sept. 26, 2025. (Jordan Hansen / Daily Montanan) Wheeler is Save Wild Trout’s ...