When a big catfish pulls a jug under, the call rings out. The fish isn’t as big as Moby Dick, of course, but this is as close to whaling as you can get in a river. My fishing buddy paddled hurriedly, ...

The beautiful spring weather had given me and my buddy Joe an itch to go fishing, so that’s exactly what we did. We loaded Joe’s johnboat, pulled it to the Arkansas River and launched just after the ...

Like many other leisure activities, fishing has had its share of innovation and technological advances. But there’s something to be said for “old school” methods — a cane pole, a cork and a worm or ...