When trolled at slow to moderate speeds, the distinctive wide wiggle action has been drawing strikes longer than I’ve been alive. The split-tail design simulates an erratic baitfish action that even ...

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 ...

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 ...

Joe Babcock, of Manlius, proudly shows a 23-inch, 5.3 pound brown trout he caught on an undisclosed stream in Cortland County on April 5. He said he was using a floating Rapala lure.

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 ...