When ice fishing stocked trout, knowing where to look can make all the difference. Ask your local fisheries biologist about winter trout fishing opportunities in your area. Trout are stocked in a ...

Lake trout might be the ultimate winter trophy. A tangle with one of these denizens of the deep is not soon forgotten. Lake trout fight with spirit and are always game for a battle in winter’s cold ...

Last week we aired a story about someone who was out ice fishing on Black Pond in Paul Smith’s. Pretty quickly after the story aired, we heard from several listeners who said ice fishing wasn’t ...

Brook trout, or brookies as they are commonly referred to, are synonymous with the Northeast and small mountain streams. While technically a char, the species is almost always grouped together with ...

Leave the fly rod and grab the muck boots. For an interesting take on brook trout angling, make for the hardwoods instead of the main stream. These quick tips on catching small creek, under the radar ...

“Sit with your back to the wind,” My dad would say. I don’t have a lot of memories of ice fishing as a kid, but that was one of them. I was sitting on a five-gallon bucket, trying to tolerate the cold ...

For his birthday, our grandson, Tucker, wanted to go fishing on a small stream. With a few choices in Island Park, we settled on Moose Creek, a meandering, log choked, jumpable stream that pours off ...

Every time I fish a brook trout stream, I’m reminded why I have such a soft spot for them. I’m a sucker for dry fly eats, and a brook trout hits a dry fly like no other. The best thing about them?

GAYLORD, Mich. – The Black River slipped through a pool in a grassy meadow, then narrowed and tumbled through an alder thicket. The low tree limbs obscured all but a 4-foot-wide corridor over the ...

Anglers are enjoying the “hard water” that is covering many of the lakes across Pennsylvania as ice fishing is officially here. Anglers are drilling holes through several inches of ice to catch ...

BIRCHWOOD – An inch of snow had fallen overnight, creating a fresh, clean slate across the Washburn County Forest on this December morning. As our group – Bill Smith and Dave Zeug, both of Shell Lake, ...