Memorial Day weekend marks the unofficial start of summer – and for anglers across the US, it’s the perfect excuse to grab thei ...

As usual, live bait has been taking a few fish, but the better-quality fish have been coming off engineered soft plastics.

Five or 6-inch suckers are commonly used under tip-ups for winter pike fishing, and they work equally well in summer. For big girls, a foot-long sucker rings the dinner bell. Rig it with a multi ...

This will be the last weekly fishing ... with large soft plastic jigs will be the best way to target them along the deeper edges of the shipping channel. Trolling with umbrella rigs is not ...

Provided Share The transition from ice fishing to open water led to a large variety of fish—lakers, smallmouth bass, coho, northern pike ... but the landings are soft due to the recent warm ...

STURGEON BAY – Dawn arrived with an orange glow over the Door Peninsula on Jan. 27, highlighting a cottony cloud deck above and a gray expanse of ice to the west. Fishing guide Brody Alexander ...

I don’t know how to even approach a stream or what rigs to use or what flies ... full of dudes catching bass, pike, and muskies on all manner of lures and soft plastics. Fly fishing—long ...

Imagine this scenario: you’re allowed to fish for bass every day for the rest of your life, but you can only use one lure. You have an unlimited supply, but it’s all the same bait. What would ...

Adem Tagani emailed the photo at the top and a report on lakefront perch fishing ... both northern pike and smallmouth bass were biting. Sucker minnows dragged on a Carolina Rig from 14 to ...

jigging with soft plastics along channel edges offers some success as does casting a mix of lures along shoreline structure during the morning and evening hours. Trolling with umbrella rigs has ...

an essential first lesson for beginners is to master a few essential fishing rigs that use soft baits—whether they’re worms, crawfish, tube baits, or creature baits. Some soft baits come ...