"The Morning Hatch" is a daily dose of anything fly fishing, human interest, and sometimes from left field. It will be short, informative, and hopefully entertaining. Enjoy it as a morning starter ...

Craig and Melanie Lewis, owners of Erie Outfitters in Sheffield Lake, enjoy an afternoon of ice fishing for big bluegills with their Labrador retriever pup, Milner, on a Lorain County pond. (Chuck ...

Bluegills, the ubiquitous catch of most anglers across the United States. Found from border to border, from puddles and ponds to great lakes and rivers, the fish thrive wherever they swim. Their ...

A local fishing guide shared his tips for catching crappies and bluegills while ice fishing on Lake Minnetonka.

" Wood" was The answer-or at least a very short and key part of it. Terry and Roxanne Wilson are a husband-wife fly fishing team, authors and recognized experts on fly fishing for pan-fish. They ...

Traverse City — Somewhere within or beneath those lily pads along a 40-acre lake's shore were bound to be May's most cooperative freshwater fish. Bluegills. It was Saturday afternoon and four of us ...

MUSKEGO, Wis. There's not much to a popper just a small hook, a piece of painted cork, a hackle and some tail feathers. But tied to the business end of a fly line leader and cast onto the still ...

And it is not just the casting, if you look deeper into fly fishing you will see that you are stepping into a whole new world. It's a cool world, but it is a wo ...

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