The range you’re fishing at will also dictate which tactic to use. If I’m loosefeeding on the bomb, it won’t work if I’m ...

Winter trout fishing is a funny thing. Some people love it because the crowds are gone, and they can bank on having long stretches of great water all to themselves. Other people hang up the trout gear ...

Tony Swierk found 4 inches of safe, clear ice on the east side of the main Central Avenue pier this week and caught a nice steelhead with 10 feet of underwater visibility. Submitted photo Winter ...

If you love skiing or snowmobiling, it’s been a tough winter. But if you love ice fishing, it’s definitely been your year. According to the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources, ice fishing ...

When the wind howls and the temperature plummets, it's easy to look out a window as birds huddle in a bush or on a wire and wonder if they need some help to make it through the winter. While many of ...

Let’s face it. Not everybody is cut from the same cloth. Just as some people like fishing and others do not, some people will walk out on a frozen lake, drill holes and sit for hours in sub-freezing ...

A double-digit blackfish was landed by the hardy tog fishing faithful. Meanwhile, with all the cold temperatures, ice fishing is taking shape on the state's big lakes to the north and a traditional ...

Lake trout might be the ultimate winter trophy. A tangle with one of these denizens of the deep is not soon forgotten. Lake trout fight with spirit and are always game for a battle in winter’s cold ...

In early winter, finding crappies is as easy as finding green aquatic vegetation. Big slabs will be right up in the greenery, where they not only find abundant foot, but cover, both for ambushing ...

Freestone rivers like the Eagle River mirror the frigid conditions filling the valley. Wherever the cold shuts sections down, angling slows to a sluggish pace. Slush forms and fills the river.