Extras

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.

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.

Fall food plots are planted in late-summer, and whitetails will begin targeting them a month or two later — during deer season!