While most of us hit small rivers and streams looking for rainbows, browns, and brookies, many warmer-water stretches promise as much or more action in the form of smallmouth bass. Targeting ...

Cold winter water makes bites slow to come by and even harder to feel when they do happen. Jeff Littles’s winter jigging techniques help you set the hook. Everyone loves a powerful, rip the rod out of ...

Doug Newhoff had no idea what he'd hooked into when this 30-pound (estimated) smallmouth buffalo ate the hair jig he was bouncing. (Randy Randall) Buy Photo The Gazette offers audio versions of ...

The Milwaukee River slipped over a gravel bar at our feet and swirled around a boulder at midstream. Now, in mid-July, it ran clear like tea and well within its banks. Bill Schultz of New Berlin and I ...