Almost every veteran crappie catcher can recount times when he was catching fish just as fast as he could toss out a yellow jig, when suddenly, for no apparent reason, the fishing went bust. Different ...

As the ice fishing season starts to wind down and the open-water fishing season gets closer, it’s a good time to evaluate what sorts of things affect our fishing success. There are, after all, a good ...

From an art studio and workshop in a Cleveland Heights home are born many of the hottest lure colors ever to dangle from anglers’ fishing lines. Many of the beautiful hues that lure anglers to spend ...

Congratulations to Captain Peter Szklanka and his Team No. 88 “Triple Threat,” with team members Joe Vaccarella and Bob Wasson, who won the Northern Chautauqua Conservation Club Lake Erie walleye ...

Rather than offer a roundup of lures designed to catch fishermen first and billfish second, we polled a cross section of the world’s top marlin-chasing captains for their favorites. These specific ...

I was reminded of the relationship between lure colors and light intensity while tossing jerk bait along boat slips in a large marina on Lake Wallenpaupack recently. A morning fog covered much of the ...

If the nation`s lure manufacturers have any influence on you and me–and you know that they do–we`ll all need larger tackle boxes by next year. That`s because the explosive use of selective colors in ...

The hint of spring has a lot of us thinking about open-water fishing, even if it’s still February. There’s nothing like preparing early, which includes restocking the tackle boxes with those new baits ...

DULUTH — In the dusky, dusty basement of his West Duluth home — don’t forget to duck going down the stairs — Ed Forrestal works his magic with plastic and metal, epoxy and paint. Forrestal is the ...

“There’s a fish on the red Naja!” Capt. Antonio Amaral screams from the bridge at the exact same moment a big blue marlin crashes the lure from the inside out. The attack leaves a gigantic hole in the ...