No matter where you target specks, it’s hard to beat a paddletail soft-plastic, and the Sea Shad emits a strong vibration that these fish can’t resist. The One Knocker is a modern cousin of the ...

With an abundance of rain during the 2023 and 2024 seasons, Cachuma Lake is currently at 91% capacity and is slated to receive 16,000 pounds of rainbow trout this stocking season. The first 4,000 ...

I’ve got a few tattoos, one of which is a trout—a big hook-jaw brown on my leg. It’s fair to say that trout are my favorite freshwater species, and I’ve been fishing for them since I was a wee tiny ...

When I was a kid, the only thing I ever wanted to be was a professional bass fisherman. On Saturday mornings while the others were watching cartoons, I would wake up, pour myself a bowl of Lucky ...

My tackle box is full of trout lures that I’ve only fished a few times. I keep the best speckled trout lures tied on my light-action spinning and casting rods. My confidence lures made my list of the ...

An inside-joke among trout fisherman for decades has been the idea that most trout fishing lures are designed more to attract anglers, and their dollars, than to attract fish. Here are 10 popular ...

More than 80 years ago on the pristine waters of Lake Päijänne in Finland, a fisherman named Lauri watched from his boat as large predatory fish attacked schools of minnows. Time after time, he ...

The Department of Natural Resources has been stocking hatchery-reared rainbow trout, averaging about three-fourths of a pound, at Foster Arend Lake in north Rochester for at least 20 years. Outdoors ...

Jacksonville’s Paul Misner and I launched his 16-foot Hewes skiff into the lower St. Johns River well before dawn. The target was sea trout, as reports had been good for numbers of slot fish from ...

CHARLESTON, W.Va. (WCHS) — There is gold in those lakes and streams, golden rainbow trout that is. For the sixth year, the state Division of Natural Resources will be stocking 50,000 golden rainbow ...