The red-and-white plastic bobber. It’s one of the most iconic items in all of fishing. Next time you’re in the gift shop at the Cracker Barrel, look around. I promise you’ll find one depicted on a tin ...

Slab crappies are meat eaters—sure enough minnow munchers. They take artificials well at times, especially jigs—but big crappie will turn their noses at even the best of the best crappie lures.

With the ice having disappeared and the temperatures getting warmer by the day, it appears to be time for open-water fishing to begin. In addition to line selection, which I talked about last week, it ...

Selecting a bait for trout isn’t rocket science. They like garden worms, mealworms, wax worms, and nightcrawlers. Salmon eggs score big, as do all of the synthetic dough baits on the market these days ...

Gather up the gumption and your cold-weather gear and head to Traverse City for winter steelhead fishing on river frontage devoid of the elbow-to-elbow crowds of the spring run. Steelhead can be ...