Extras

The 2023/2024 ice fishing season was shorter than usual due to record warmth throughout much of the northern United States, but avid anglers still captured some amazing underwater video on their Aqua-Vu cameras.

If all of your spinnerbaits feature an open loop, then you’re missing out, especially in northern pike country.

During early spring, crappies will visit shallow-water wood and other cover well before spawning season to feed. Here’s how to capitalize on this brief window of opportunity.

Bassmaster Elite angler Trey McKinney gets redemption on a 5-pound bass that broke his line and stole his lure an hour earlier.

Habitat consultant Jason Say offers five proven tips for getting the most out of your frost seeding efforts.

In the author’s opinion, the following four bucket list resorts make up the Grand Slam of Canadian Fishing Lodges.

Late winter and early spring is prime time for frost seeding clover, and the best news is you need almost no equipment for the task.

A young guide in Quebec has learned how to catch massive muskies through the ice on tip-ups. It’s literally hand-to-hand combat — and the one bleeding after the battle isn’t the fish.

These introductions from Moultrie, Muck, EOTech, Wiley X and Mystery Ranch are making a splash in 2024.

Fish don’t always survive when you release them, and this is especially true when they come from deep water due to a condition called barotrauma.

How thick must the ice be for safe ice fishing? Three inches? Four? And how do you use a spud bar to check the exact ice thickness? Watch and learn.

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.

Even with timely rains, a food plot often comes in too sparse, even though you planted at the recommended seeding rate. You probably made a common — but rarely discussed — mistake.