After you've landed your fish, you need to get the hook out. Most of the time it's a simply matter. Just grasp the hook or lure, push back against the direction the hook penetrated and you're done.

Editor: Trout season is right around the corner and area streams are getting stocked. While fishing is fun, catching fish is even more fun. To ensure a healthy population and allow fish to reproduce ...

When I guided, I made it a practice to step away from my anglers and let them fish. From a distance I would watch and see if I could discern the strengths and weaknesses in their game: why were they ...

Pick a social media platform and a fishing-related hashtag, say #patroutfishing on Instagram. It’ll turn up thousands upon thousands of posts. Anglers have long posed for photos with their latest and ...

Fish for long enough, and someone will tell you that it’s cruel or inhumane – but you and I both know that there’s no one who cares more about the health and well-being of trout than a trout angler.

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Learn essential ice fishing tips to catch walleye during the early season. Discover effective techniques, ideal locations, ...

A wild Pacific steelhead is one of the most coveted fish in the country. Because different groups of steelhead run up rivers at different times, it’s possible to target them in the Northwest ...

Outdoor Life We fished until almost dark, using various spinner, eel, and pork-frog combinations, dragging them through snags, fishing vertical banks, using ev­ery trick we could think of. Our total ...

You can target trout in freestone rivers this winter, but you need to consider a few additional factors before wading right into things.

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