For years, ice anglers were told they had to downsize to catch fish. Fish are cold blooded and their metabolism slows in winter, so we need to use tiny lures to catch these fickle feeders, we thought.

The first time I fished the lower Madison River, I felt small. I was 18 years old and had never been out West—and though I’d grown up trout fishing on the East Coast, I had never done so on a river ...

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BIG LAKE — The charcoal vista of the early morning was softening to gray as Jesse Cashin sat sidesaddle on his Arctic Cat snowmachine. Cashin had just used an auger to drill a hole in the ice atop ...

You don’t have to be an old-timer to remember when a 60-footer was considered a big sport-fishing boat — maybe even too big. Many felt bigger boats weren’t maneuverable enough to keep up with a ...

Of all the qualities that make the striped bass one of the country’s premier game fish—including its tremendous strength, its regal purple sheen and stately black stripes, and its ability to grow to ...