I’ve got a few tattoos, one of which is a trout lure: 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 ...

When I was a kid, the only thing I ever wanted to be was a professional bass fisherman. On Saturday mornings while the others were watching cartoons, I would wake up, pour myself a bowl of Lucky ...

Small jigs are the most versatile of all trout lures. Whether made of fur, feathers, or soft plastic, they can be fished fast or slow, shallow or deep, all according to the needs of the moment. They ...

Entire aisles at Bass Pro Shops, Gander Mountain and Cabela's are lined with hundreds of different trout lure and baits. Sometimes it seems the vast selection might be designed to attract anglers, and ...

The Pocono region offers some of the best trout angling to be found anywhere in the commonwealth, with a multitude of freestone mountain streams — many miles of which are open to public fishing — and ...

From trolling spinners for weed walleye, to swinging streamers for big browns, to frog fishing for summer bass, these stories captured our Sports Illustrated fishing reader’s attention on Fishing on ...

The Holy Grail for trout anglers is a trophy brown trout. Rainbows can grow big in you-catch-em ponds but trophy-sized browns are solitary predators that inhabit big water. In California, a ...

Sheboygan – If there is an MVS – most valuable species – to the average Lake Michigan angler in Wisconsin, it is the brown trout. The species is available year-round and close to shore. It hits a ...

As a general rule, half of an ounce isn’t much. Perhaps the weight of a half slice of bread. Then again, there are times when half of an ounce means everything. Such was the case in late April when ...

Every once in a while a big fish creates a buzz. That’s been the case for the past several weeks among Owasco Lake anglers concerning Gary Rule’s, 22-pound, 8-ounce brown trout caught on Memorial Day.