ON TROUT LAKE, BWCAW — We couldn’t decide if this was the last, best day of summer or maybe the first great day of autumn. Either way, at 80 degrees and sunny in mid-September, with a stiff southerly ...

Several downrigger styles are available. Electric downriggers are standard on most charter boats. An electric 'rigger deploys and reels in the downrigger weight, which may weigh 10 or 12 pounds or ...

CRESCENT, Ore. – Steve Nicovich is trolling a large plug lure deep in the bowels of Odell Lake in search of one of its famed mottled marauders when something almost appears to happen. Nicovich’s ...

GRAND MARAIS, MINN. — Santiago, the protagonist in Hemingway's novel "The Old Man and the Sea,'' was a fisherman with a long run of tough luck, 84 days without a catch. Yet his knowledge of fish and ...

Two Harbors angler Joe Shead caught, photographed and released the latest in what has been a string of big lake trout taken on western Lake Superior lately. While fishing has slowed numbers-wise from ...

A few years ago, I had the opportunity to fish for walleye and sauger at Lake of the Woods, a rather large body of water located where Minnesota and Canada come together. While there, I learned just ...

ON LOWER MANITOU LAKE, ONTARIO -- The signs were obvious. We just didn't want to believe them. First, the water temperature was nearly 60 degrees. Too warm. Second, pine pollen already dusted the ...