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A bass pro doesn't earn piles of cash by making poor bait choices. To help you land more fish, we asked eight pros, each with seven figures' worth f of [...]

LAST SPRING, TWO TEXAS ANGLERS EXPERIENCED A FISHING TRIP FROM HELL-ROGUE WAVES, A CAPSIZED BOAT, LIGHTNING, EVEN A HEART ATTACK. BUT A STRONG WILL TO SURVIVE, AND A LOT OF [...]

WE BET YOU KNOW THE HEARTACHE OF DROPPING A HUGE FISH. TRUTH IS, IT'S OFTEN YOUR OWN FAULT. FROM PROPER PREP WORK TO FIGHT TECHNIQUES TO END-GAME INSURANCE, THESE TIPS [...]

DEER-HAIR BASS BUGGING IS ALIVE AND WELL. VERY MUCH ALIVE FISHING IS INEXORABLY CONNECTED to moments in time. Anglers are expert at living in the moment--both mind and body completely [...]

WE'VE ALL SEEN IT HAPPEN--OR HAD IT HAPPEN TO US. A TOURNAMENT PRO, CHARTER CAPTAIN, FISHING GUIDE, OR JUST PLAIN GOOD FISHERMAN HAS BEEN PLYING HIS HOME WATERS FOR YEARS, [...]

FEW IF ANY ANGLERS KNOW MORE ABOUT PRESENTING SLIPBOBBER RIGS FOR BIG WALLEYES THAN GREG BOHN, AUTHOR OF MASTER THE ART OF SLIP BOBBERING. SLIP-FLOATING PROFESSIONALLY AS A GUIDE, A [...]

West Coast charter boat captains and commercial fishermen complain that sea lions have become a serious nuisance, interfering with their catches and depleting fish stocks. Some marine biologists also believe that a way must be found to deal with the mammals, which are a protected species.

[This article consists of photographs--see below] CAPTION(S): BILL EPPRIDGE STANDING ROOM ONLY Opening day of Connecticut's 2005 trout season meant a lot of activity on this stretch of the Farmington [...]

Byline: John Gierach I came to dropper flies the way I typically come to any so-called new development in flyfishing.That is, several years late and only after half a dozen [...]

* The conditions were perfect that morning as Mickey, Randy, and I headed out of Neah Bay, Wash. By 10:30, we were fishing about a mile from shore, when suddenly [...]

Montana flyfishing guide Dan 'Rooster' Leavens released this 15-pound steelhead into the Sol Duc River after angler Jimmy Kloote caught the buck on an Intruder fly during a brief break [...]

DURING THE WEEK of Oct. 22, 2012, peanut bunker were pouring out of the bays along the New Jersey and New York coasts, getting smashed by the first big push [...]

Fishing guides Aaron Rogers-Richter (right) and Josh 'Spud' Fitz were dropped off at the edge of this pond, between Katmai National Park and Becharof National Wildlife Refuge, by the de [...]

JIMMY FEE WAS UNDERWATER, clutching his rod while tumbling over the boulder-strewn bottom off the beach of Cuttyhunk, Mass. When he finally surfaced, gasping for breath, his ankle was killing [...]

THE OTTAWA RIVER ACE Marc Thorpe marcthorpeguiding.com What makes Thorpe one of the most sought after guides on Canada's Ottawa and St. Lawrence Rivers? It might be that he averages [...]

ON 2008, Bushnick was volunteering for an overnight youth fishing event when a young son of one of the fathers on the trip was asked what it was that he [...]

BAD WEATHER CONDITIONS MAKING IT TOUGH TO SPOT FISH? TRY THESE PRO TRICKS Nothing is sweeter than sight fishing on a calm summer day in crystal-clear water. It's even better [...]

THE NOTION THAT WEEDS AND WALLEYES go together is a no-brainer in the quest to catch more fish. Yet many anglers who know the value of vegetation fail to find [...]

Gerald 'G-Man' Swindle shinnied partway up a cedar tree in Table Rock Lake while gripping a largemouth bass last April. 'That's one of the craziest photo shoots I've done--holding on [...]

Fishing Handle Tiny Flies To hold small flies that you're tying onto fine-diameter leaders, use the handle of an X hobby knife, which is about the size of a ballpoint [...]

1 Brooke Johnson Derry, N.H. As the youngest of three children, 6-year-old Brooke says the thing she enjoys most is fishing one-on-one with her father, Mac Johnson. The panfish in [...]

1| Ben Zlydaszek Portsmouth, R.I. On a camping trip to Rhode Island's Worden Pond with his father, Ted, the weekend before Hurricane Irene last August, 7-year-old Ben hooked this 7-pound [...]

* RIGHT NOW the big postspawn female walleyes are suspended in open water. To find these fish, walleye pro Tommy Skarlis covers a huge swath of water--200 feet wide and [...]

THE GUIDES JOEL BYER Seven years' guiding around Kelley's Island on Lake Erie; nachofish.com SCOTT GUTSCHOW 16 years' guiding on Wisconsin's Bay of Green Bay; reelactioncharters.com JAMES VLADYKA 12 years' [...]

THE BIG-CAT MECHANIC * Jimmy Hampton Hampton and his small group of fishing buddies boat 45- to 60-pound blue cats with shocking regularity--and they do so with a unique lure [...]

THE KENAI KING Larry LaRue 53-954-0487; larry.larue@us.army.mil Alaska's Kenai River is home to some of the world's biggest king salmon, and knowledgeable guides lean heavily on LaRue's Looney Lures to [...]

THE CALIFORNIA GODFATHER Don Iovino iovino.com Iovino's heaviest largemouth weighed in at 18 pounds, and he has stopped counting the scores of 7-, 8-, and 10-plus-pound bass he's caught. A [...]

THE JERSEY COWBOY Ken Zwirko bunkerdowncharters.com In the 2010 American Striper Association tournament season, Zwirko was named Top Angler of the Year, weighing in an impressive 226.65 pounds of bass [...]

THE WALLEYE WIZARD Paul Meleen 320-532-3717 In 2010, Meleen won the coveted FLW Walleye Tour Angler of the Year Award. One of the original anglers to join the fledgling Pro [...]

THE NEXT TIME YOU THINK you're having a bad day because the fish aren't biting or the birds aren't flying, remember that things could be as bad as they were [...]

Is that a fish mark on your screen, or a shadow from a water spot? Does your window to the underwater world look like a sheet of waxed paper when [...]

At dawn, a fisherman carries with him a full night of hope, his slate wiped clean of failure. Above the Snake River, the rims of the canyon walls are tinged [...]