One of the real joys of fishing occurs when warm spring weather draws fish of all species into skinny water. Anglers don polarized sunglasses and scan the shallows for emerging signs of life. The “…
All around me big, deep-bellied browns and rainbows were rising frantically, sipping in one of the tiniest mayflies I had ever seen. The insects were so abundant sometimes the trout would grab two or…
Here is everything you need to make your own Jika Rig!
Use a soft plastic like Bass Pro Shops River Bug.
Use a hook like the Bass Pro Shops XPS Wide SuperLock fishing hooks.
Use a bass-casting…
With bass season set to begin soon in Eastern Ontario, Canada, my day has been spent prepping tackle and sorting my fishing gear. As I scour over hundreds of fishing baits, one perennial favorite…
Smoked salmon or trout … fried walleye … grilled or baked striper … Mmmmm! Does eating fish get any better? Here's a super-fast filleting method for all of these species that gets the job done…
Panfish aka: bluegills, sunfish, crappies, bream, perch, shell crackers, pumpkinseeds, slabs and even smaller walleyes are called "pan" fish for a reason. Properly filleted and fried, they eat s-o-o-…
Those silly bears. To them, it's their world and we're just living in it.
From late spring through summer, bear sightings caught on camera show us the cuteness, strength, determination and sometimes…
Several years ago, me, the wife and our two kids attended an organized night hike at a nearby arboretum. The kids were only in their single digit years but were no stranger to hiking. Most of their…
Caribou inhabit some of the most deceptively rugged country in North America. From a distance, the tundra looks flat and featureless, but as soon as you set foot on it you quickly realize that…
Wheeler owns BASSfest
Let there be no doubt that the top pros fishing the FLW Tour can go toe-to-toe with the best the Bassmaster Elite Series have to offer. Today, Plano pro Jacob Wheeler proved…
I first read about brook trout in Outdoor Life magazine when I was 8 years old. Dazzling red, yellow, orange and cream spots scattered across a slate gray body painted a picture of the most…
It's a fishing story unlike any other: How a mega-bass became a megastar and how that fostered the idea of catch-and-release fishing.
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In a YouTube video released by Texas Parks…
