What’s the best bait for trout? It’s a tough question, and that’s a good thing. Today’s trout fisher has a wide range of store-bought trout bait—along with trout lures and trout spinning reels—to ...

There are lots of different ways to catch lake trout, but the key to consistency is knowing the best techniques and lures to use based on the current conditions and the fish’s patterns and preferences ...

Flip Putthoff, who compiles the weekly fishing report, has gone fishing. Here is last week's report. Beaver Lake: Stripers are on the move as the water warms. Jon Conklin, fishing guide, reports ...

There are three kinds of trout in this country — native, wild, and stocked. Native trout are the ones that have been here for thousands of years, such as brook trout in the mountains of the Northeast ...

Selecting a bait for trout isn’t rocket science. They like garden worms, mealworms, wax worms, and nightcrawlers. Salmon eggs score big, as do all of the synthetic dough baits on the market these days ...

Last summer, my wife and I journeyed to Colorado to go fishing with her parents. Historically, my in-laws are not fishers, but over the course of the summer they’d evolved into hardcore trout fanatics ...

Striped bass are biting on the south half of the lake. Reese Jones at Hook, Line and Sinker in Rogers recommends fishing between Prairie Creek park and Point 12. Use shad, brood minnows or Alabama ...