Benjamin Ferguson (right) holds up the state-record brook trout alongside his fishing buddy Shawn Widrick; Ferguson caught the trout during a three-day canoe trip in the Adirondacks. Benjamin Ferguson ...

Indeed, winter angling in Minnesota is more than catching bluegills, crappies, walleyes, and the occasional northern pike.

This story, “Old Fashioned Trout Trip,” appeared in the June 1964 issue of Outdoor Life. Experience has taught me that guides know what they’re doing. The silly set-up we were in, however, made me ...

Two volunteers from the Ninemile Creek Conservation Council (NCCC), wearing hip waders and carrying long-handled nets, chased 800 brown trout around a shallow holding pen at the Carpenter’s Brook Fish ...

Downriggers are standard equipment for Great Lakes anglers, but they have practical applications for inland trout anglers and even walleye anglers in some places. They are an effective tool for ...

Well, we're not headed up to the canoe country to go lake trout fishing this spring. Or so it appears. The ice has us. Four of us make the trip each spring, close on the heels of ice-out, when the ...

It's around 9 a.m. on a recent Sunday morning when Drew Goerlitz and his friend, Craig Madore pull into the boat launch at Lake Colby in Saranac Lake. The air temperature is below freezing and it's ...

Researching and locating under-utilized wilderness trout lakes to call your own takes a bit of effort, but it’s your first step to securing a future of catching untapped brook trout. The best untapped ...

BRULE – At 10 p.m. Monday, Aug. 22, a veil of haze moved over the Bois Brule River valley. The gauzy atmospherics dimmed the stars, our only source of natural light. The dark night became even darker ...

I first rode the Canadian National Railroad in 1921. That was in Nova Scotia, and I was a wide-eyed kid on his way to his first north-of-the-border trout-fishing experience. I can remember all sorts ...