fishing

With the rising cost of everything these days, many anglers look to save a few bucks where they can. Whether it is tying their own flies or catching their own...

The weather is cold and hot this time of year, and the fishing can be the same way. Streaky, inconsistent and uneven until the first warm stretch of weather brings...

North Dakota's paddlefish snagging season opens May 1, and is scheduled to continue through the end of the month. However, the season has closed early the last four seasons. If...

Springtime means stocking the tackle box with jigs, spinners, twisters, spoons, crankbaits and more; usually more lures than I'll ever need. However, if it came down to it, there is...

In my quest for steelhead knowledge, I have found some interesting patterns, from complex streamers to simple nymphs. Stocking the fly box has been both rewarding and exciting as my...

In my journeys into fly fishing and fly tying, I have not found a more enjoyable fly to put together on the vise and put under the water's surface than...

Fishing is a social sport; ice fishing even more so. I can't recall a morning after a hot (or not-so-hot) dawn bite that I haven't stepped out of my shack...

On a recent fishing trip to a small, virtually featureless lake, save for one giant point that separated the body of water into two halves, I began to wonder where...

Recently, I had the opportunity to ice fish several small lakes having never been on them before. With map in hand, I narrowed down some depth changes and underwater features...

I can tell you the exact moment I became addicted to fishing; it happened while standing on the rocks with my dad on the shore of the Sheyenne River just...

Popular in wet flies, known as soft hackles, the back feather of the partridge is most often tied around the collar of the fly. As imitators of legs, gills and...