When a stocked rainbow trout comes across a big wad of dough bait floating off the lake bottom, it harkens back to a time when life was so easy and being a fish was so simple — those two years of ...

There's been a steep rise in popularity of the 6-inch-ish soft plastic swimbait over the last decade. Several companies have introduced pre-rigged baits in this size range with wire harnesses and ...

There is the mythic adventure of trekking to a mountain river, a fly rod in hand for catching wild trout. It is all taking place, of course, in a poetic setting in which nature talks to you. Then ...