Smelt jiggers have been scoring pretty well recently at the Oak Harbor Marina, according to Mike Chamberlain at Ted’s Sport Center in Lynnwood. The time to be there, Chamberlain said, is during the ...

There are a couple of traditional, family-oriented activities coming up for outdoor folks in this area — fun stuff, well worth the effort. One is the hot-ticket New Year’s razor clam dig on the coast ...

We're back out here on the water with the boatless angler (yes on a boat again), and we're using a special smelt imitating jigging spoon: the bigger of the Stingnose line. From previous video ...

You are able to gift 5 more articles this month. Anyone can access the link you share with no account required. Learn more. There are a number of lakes in the state of Maine that have Jack Smelts, a ...

You are able to gift 5 more articles this month. Anyone can access the link you share with no account required. Learn more. Despite the midwinter warm-up this past week, ice conditions throughout much ...

HIGGINS LAKE -- It felt like forever since the last time I sat on a bucket jigging with an ice fishing rod. My hands were freezing, my toes were nubs, and extreme boredom poured over me like a bad ...

A small village of shanties is spread out before us as we make our way across the ice. Despite a snowfall that is increasing in intensity and the fact that it is a weekday, there are a surprising ...

Winter is for smelt fishing and, compared to other coastal states from New Jersey to New Hampshire, rainbow smelt — or Osmerus mordax — run in thicker schools and for longer seasons in Maine tidal ...

Ocean waters have finally dipped below 50 degrees Fahrenheit, the magic minimum temperature that sustains great fishing. Sea herring have moved into warmer Long Island Sound, where striped bass and ...

TWO HARBORS, Minn. – Trolling is cheating. When it comes to catching lake trout in the most pristine of the Great Lakes, that's the code of a band of North Shore anglers who take great pleasure in ...