Fishing

If you dropped your phone in frigid deep water while fishing and needed to dive to retrieve it, would you do it?

A Minnesota angler catches a good-sized walleye, but things take a turn for the worse during an impromptu photo session.

Fall is the perfect time to go “old school” in your lure choices to catch not only numbers of largemouth bass, but big ones, too.

Top-of-the-food-chain predators such as muskies and big northern pike aren’t as elusive as you might think. Here’s a four-step game plan for success.

If you want to catch your biggest muskie of the year — and maybe your life — fall is prime time, and the top method is with a large sucker minnow.

The author discovers that the Z-Man SMH WormZ, because of its unique construction, will often catch more bass than his favorite soft plastics.

This intense bass boat video serves as a reminder that disaster can strike in a split-second, even on waters you know well.

This is the best feel-good fishing story of the summer.

Recent high school grad Cayden Hutmacher is on a quest to catch all 63 fish species recognized by the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources.

Most anglers use a Z-Man ChatterBait for shallow-water largemouths. Here’s video proof the lure is deadly for deep-water bass, too.

Some anglers shy away from purchasing a kayak because they think it’ll be too tippy. While this is certainly a problem for some models, the one highlighted here features supreme stability.

Two young muskie anglers are having a great day on the water — until catastrophe strikes.

The author field tests two St. Croix rods during 2022 and 2023 — one heavy-power Victory Series casting model, and one Panfish Series spinning model.

You’ve never seen a big bass video like this one before. It’s the author’s favorite fishing clip of summer 2023.

The old saying, “Big lures catch big fish,” is true — especially with plastic worms and bass.

You won’t believe the aggressiveness of these giant bullfrogs. Like hungry largemouth bass, they inhale an angler’s imitation mouse.

This fishing video fits perfectly in the “I can’t believe what I just saw” category.

An angler in south Florida is lucky to still have his hand after an unexpected and terrifying close encounter with a shark.

Professional angler Brian Latimer has learned that largemouth bass often hide near objects that you likely overlook.

Wyndham Clark, who won golf’s most recent major, the U.S. Open, finds peace of mind with a fly rod in hand.

Forget about refinancing your house to purchase a new, fully rigged $70,000 bass boat. Instead, spend $200 on a lightweight kayak and get back to the basics.

The only thing missing from this intense shark attack video is the theme music from Jaws.

Chase Cominsky and Jacob Runyan, who pleaded guilty to cheating in a 2022 Lake Erie walleye tournament, were sentenced to 10 days in jail and 1.5 years of probation.

You won’t believe that a fish this big and powerful — a sturgeon! — could be caught on such a small rod and reel.

Believe it or not, many walleye anglers throw away what might be the best cut of meat — the walleye wing.

The vast majority of bass anglers who set the hook and then fight a fish with spinning tackle do it wrong.

This could be the largest fish ever caught while ice fishing. And it was all done for science.

Jacob Wheeler, reigning Major League Fishing Angler of the Year, has one less rod and reel in his boat thanks to a bass he just weighed and released.

You won’t believe your eyes when you see the lineup of parked trucks with boat trailers near this Minnesota/Ontario border river.