Today we're fishing for perch, though I'm using a different technique: I'm running a vertical jig, the Stingnose, but casting ...

The first really cold weather of the year is forecast for the middle of this week, and depending on how cold it gets and how long it stays that way, it may well begin to push bass out of the shallows ...

An interesting development over the past couple years has been a substantial increase in the use of vertical jigging when targeting muskies. Anglers are learning that as is the case with many gamefish ...

VERTICAL JIGGING for walleyes on the Mississippi River in 6 feet of water is like walking through a pitch-dark house that you’ve never stepped foot in before. In your mind’s eye, you can imagine the ...

The colder it gets, the deeper they go. Largemouths don't do well with water temperatures below 50 degrees, and they move to the areas that provide them with an insulating blanket of depth when the ...

The author holds an early spring lake trout caught while trolling a crankbait just a few feet below the surface of Lake Superior. / Joe Shead There are lots of different ways to catch lake trout, but ...

Editor's Note: This is the first in a series of monthly columns for Our Woods & Waters written by Cold Spring resident and outdoorsman Jason Kron, previously a columnist for a Times Media publication ...