Downriggers are standard equipment for Great Lakes anglers, but they have practical applications for inland trout anglers and even walleye anglers in some places. They are an effective tool for ...

Outside of fly fishing, the are four main types of reels for fishing, and which one you choose can make a difference to your success. Maybe you’re new to fishing. Maybe you’ve been at it for a while ...

This story, “Making Up Salmon Water,” appeared in the May 1953 issue of Outdoor Life. A stiff northwester was giving Moosehead Lake the full treatment. Even the big cabin cruisers were standing on end ...

Organizers of an annual fishing derby on Lake Winnipesaukee have canceled next year’s event due to declining numbers of landlocked salmon. Dianne Timmins, the inland fisheries division chief at New ...

Two Montana couples went out for a leisurely day of salmon trolling on Fort Peck Lake on Aug. 9. Fishing aboard James and Nancy Fauth’s 25-year-old pontoon boat, Tony and Emily Simonsen were enjoying ...

KENAI - Subsistence rod-and-reel fishing in Alaska’s Kenai River will be closed due to low numbers from the early king salmon run, The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service said. The rod-and-reel prohibition ...

s the sun set over Puget Sound, Tom Molinas stood in a line of a half-dozen anglers spaced evenly along the beach at Lincoln Park in Seattle, casting and reeling in, their poles rising and falling in ...