Henry David Thoreau once wrote, "Many people go fishing all their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after." In my experience, this rings especially true for crappie fishing. Let's be ...

Slab crappies are meat eaters—sure enough minnow munchers. They take artificials well at times, especially jigs—but big crappie will turn their noses at even the best of the best crappie lures.

Fishing is one of those things that’s way more fun when you’re prepared. If you’ve ever been stuck without the right gear—like trying to untangle a line with no pliers or landing a fish without a ...

Thanks to single-digit and sub-zero temperatures, ice fishing in Western New York has arrived earlier than usual. Anglers are already stepping onto safe ice in select areas, including the south end of ...

Fishing – especially panfishing, and good panfishing at that -- may be only a couple of years away on the four impoundments of the Tittabawassee River. “I’m not confident about a lot,” said DNR ...

Lobster was once barely considered a food, fit only for prisoners or the poor. Now, it’s a delicacy, and many wonder how it could ever have been considered disgusting. Meck Slagle, a University of ...

We may earn revenue from the products available on this page and participate in affiliate programs. Learn more An ice fishing rod may seem like a simple device, but not every model is created equally.

As for North America, it may be no coincidence that ice fishing is so immensely popular in Minnesota, which leads the United States in ice angling. Other states, including Wisconsin, Michigan, North ...

A crow on the UW Seattle campus in April 2020. Crows digging up lawns in Washington and Oregon may be after the invasive European chafer grub. The beetles are native to Europe, but by 2016 they had ...

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