I’ve got a few tattoos, one of which is a trout—a big hook-jaw brown on my leg. It’s fair to say that trout are my favorite freshwater species, and I’ve been fishing for them since I was a wee tiny ...

More than 80 years ago on the pristine waters of Lake Päijänne in Finland, a fisherman named Lauri watched from his boat as large predatory fish attacked schools of minnows. Time after time, he ...

The author holds an early spring lake trout caught while trolling a crankbait just a few feet below the surface of Lake Superior. / Joe Shead There are lots of different ways to catch lake trout, but ...

An inside-joke among trout fisherman for decades has been the idea that most trout fishing lures are designed more to attract anglers, and their dollars, than to attract fish. Here are 10 popular ...

Winter is fast approaching and it's time for the majority of anglers to put away their gear and resign themselves to getting their fix either by watching fishing shows or sitting in a cold hut on a ...

Angling legend Ron Weber, who changed fishing in Minnesota and throughout the world when he and the late Ray Ostrom began importing Rapala lures from Finland a half-century ago, died Thursday. He was ...

DULUTH, Minn. — Ron Weber, the Duluth native who made his fortune by introducing Finnish Rapala fishing lures to America, died Friday. He was 84. Weber grew up in Duluth, fishing the French and Lester ...