Summertime and the fishing is easy. That is, when you can catch a mess and never make a single cast. Fishing at Beaver Lake can be that way when white bass, walleye and just about anything with fins ...

It’s time to get serious about American shad. These feisty fish are a great choice for shaking the summer doldrums, being readily available along more than 150 miles of the lower Columbia and Snake ...

About this time of year a few friends and I travel down to the Columbia River to fish for shad. It has become an annual tradition. The reason I enjoy it so much is it is kind of old school fishing.

Winter angling on Norfork Lake can be one of the most productive periods of striper fishing. Beginning in mid-December thorough February the stripers will stick close to the old river channels near or ...

Shoreline anglers have to do some long-distance casting to get at migrating shad. That makes the use of certain types of equipment, lighter lines and better casting skills a must. One of the main ...

Now’s the time to rummage through your tackle box and take out all those off-brand lures you seldom use. The small spoons, spinners, jigs, and odd devices you got suckered into buying, or were given ...

Fishing for hickory and white (American) shad has been a rite of spring for centuries in mid-Atlantic country. In our area the locus of shad fishing is the Susquehanna River complex, which includes ...

The Norfork Lake striper fishing is hot right now. The stripers are feeding on flats in the 30 to 40-foot range around Crystal Cove and then up to Fout's. Large schools of shad are roaming the flats, ...

I had to be tall enough to wear hip boots. That was the rule, and from the time I was 4 until my 8-year-old legs met the criteria, that rule really pissed me off. I’d sit on the basement steps while ...

This past weekend, I stowed the larger canoe I use for waterfowl hunting and brought back with me to my weekday apartment in Virginia my fishing canoe. In about the length of time it will take me to ...