Thank God they flick their tails. I’d been hearing one bark for five minutes, but it’s only that ­visual cue that reveals the rodent, flattened and frozen against a hickory 30 yards away. I brace the ...

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 ...

On a hot day in August two years ago, I was throwing everything I had in my tackle box to what I thought was a nice fishy looking area on Cook Pond. It was the perfect setup except for the air temp.

ANTIGO – Mepps makes about 8,000 spinning-lure combinations at its 50,000-square-foot manufacturing facility, but if you buy one of its storied spinners with hooks dressed in squirrel-tail, you can ...

Like any fisherman, I have favorite lures. Mine include the Jitterbug, Mepps spinners, Rapalas and the lowly jig. They worked in the 1940s when I starting fishing, and they work today. The Jitterbug ...

North-Central Wisconsin is home to several excellent trout fishing streams, offering ample opportunities for rainbow, brown, and the elegantly marked brook trout. While plentiful in our area, make no ...

It is very nearly time for those big Lake Erie brown trout to enter the tributaries right along with steelhead. Some may be in creeks now, maybe in the lowest pools, especially at Elk Creek and ...