Something about bobber fishing has hooked me since childhood. It is there, very real and so enticing, but I can’t exactly tell you why it is so appealing. Perhaps it is the cadence of the float as it ...

We threaded a squirming garden worm on the hook and we lobbed the bait out over the pond to splash down in what we hoped was that day’s Bluegill Zone. The ol’ red bobber defined fishing for me ...

An overlap of perch and coho fishing on southern Lake Michigan, the wide variety of spring weather and options and the ...

I learned that almost any lure could work when you landed on a mega school of the silvery speckled panfish. But I also discovered that catching the biggest crappies — and consistently getting bit in ...

If I find myself fishing a Texas rig in thicker grasses like milfoil or hydrilla, I like to go with a beaver style creature bait. My favorite is the Reaction Innovations Sweet Beaver. This streamlined ...

In the interim, anglers can still fish for, catch, and release both largemouth and smallmouth bass. Most anglers are shifting to panfish ... still good at 87th st slip. Perch action great for ...

And that’s a good thing, because you never know where you’ll find these nomadic fish ... bobber, imparting an action on the jig below, attracting crappies. With either presentation, a slip ...

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Just about every freshwater angler caught his or her first fish on spincasting gear, and whether it was a finger-length bluegill, a stocked hatchery trout, or a small bass, that’s a special moment.

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