Drop a worm in the water on a summer day and just try to not catch a bluegill. But in winter, sometimes those same big slabs get finicky and only bite best at classic walleye times—dawn and dusk.

THE FIRST TIME I fished the lower Madison River, I felt small. I was 18 years old and had never been out West—and though I’d grown up trout fishing on the East Coast, I had never done so on a river ...

Want to catch a freshwater fish over 100 pounds? Learn where, when, and how to catch lake sturgeon in Wisconsin, Minnesota & Michigan. | Joe Shead A lot of anglers in the Upper Great Lakes Areas covet ...

Though the official timeline is a bit hazy, many anglers point to the swimbait revolution of the early 2000s as the kick-off of modern glide baits. As the story goes, crafty Japanese bass anglers ...

An angler holding a big spring largemouth bass. Whenever I scroll through my photo gallery of big bass, I’m always struck by ...

I’ll fess up. Nothing is more blood-pressure raising to me than pinning a big trout on an itty-bitty dry fly. Scoring the take is the fun part, no doubt, but whenever I’m trying to feed a hefty brown ...

Learn how to catch your own bait fish and use them to land big game fish, saving money and boosting your chances of a successful fishing trip. This step-by-step guide shows the full process from bait ...

Everybody wants to catch big bass. Visions of giant largemouths smashing topwaters and brute smallies peeling line are what keep us all up at night—and what get us out of bed at 4 am to be the first ...

Big river fish are there for the taking on the pole. Tench, barbel, chub, perch, big eels and even carp are possible in numbers on pole tactics if you get them right. Across many stretches, chopped ...