The sudden change in weather patterns of the past two weeks, coupled with longer periods of daylight, did a remarkable job of ...

On this episode of Outdoor Adventures, TOPHAT Jigs owner Derek Martin from Illinois joins Brent Barnett for a conversation about spring crappie fishing. He gives some tips on the best ways to catch ...

As befits this time of year, a wide variety of weather (80 degrees to snow) and a wide variety of fish (lakefront coho, river ...

A man from Duluth, Minnesota, caught his first ever lake trout with a guide who has a track record of finding big fish on ...

Many have put away the ice gear for the rest of the season for the Gitch, but the few who will still get out will find fish ...

When Rose Thompson, of Skaneateles, went ice fishing for perch recently on the north end of Cayuga Lake she didn’t realize she’d need a bigger hole. Thompson dropped a homemade teardrop jig into the ...

As I pen this column, the ice is disappearing from our area lakes, a bit later than usual, thanks to warmer temps just now ...

An overlap of perch and coho fishing on southern Lake Michigan, the wide variety of spring weather and options and the ...

We Caught over 200 pounds of crappie from this Backroad Lake in Pennsylvania!

Crappies and big sunfish can be had this time of year. Fishing has been OK, but it should get better as we move further into March. The best tactic is to use smaller white tungsten jigs tipped ...

Read Next: The Best Ice Fishing Fish Finders of 2025, Tested and Reviewed “It looked like it was moving a little bit, so I dropped my jig down and saw the fish ... And I’m like, ‘That ain’t no crappie ...

but I always have a box of floats and jigs stowed to retrieve when I decide to take a break and pitch to the flooded willows for crappies. I long ago lost count of how many thousands of crappies I ...