Jeff Blood with a steelhead caught on an egg-imitating fly.   Though they lack the glamour of a dry fly and the rich…

During the summer months, I rely on soft swimbaits to take river smallmouth bass, particularly when there is a hint of…

Most bass anglers would shutter at the thought of throwing an expensive crankbait — one that might have cost as much as…

Summer's arrival will bring more than just warmer water temperatures. By now submerged weeds will be developed enough…

The subtle look of a soft stick bait like the Yamamoto Senko seems to be particularly appealing during springtime, when…

Traditionally thought of as a mainstream bass lure, in select situations the lipless crankbait is effective in…

I'm old enough to remember when there wasn't such a thing as a suspending jerkbait, at least not a commercially made…

As I mentioned a couple months ago, this would be the year I would break down and use a wading staff. Though any…

When high water, combined with flowing ice, prevented me from running the Allegheny River for smallmouht bass, I…

Like its big cousin, the walleye, saugers provide a dependable early spring bite in many systems. There are tips and…

Long bank sections of the mountain stream where heavily lined with piles of ice, the frozen reminders of a severe…

To the fly fisher, the wooly bugger is the equivalent of the jig to the spin fisherman. Each would be in about 99…