The beautiful spring weather had given me and my buddy Joe an itch to go fishing, so that’s exactly what we did. We loaded Joe’s johnboat, pulled it to the Arkansas River and launched just after the ...

When a big catfish pulls a jug under, the call rings out. The fish isn’t as big as Moby Dick, of course, but this is as close to whaling as you can get in a river. My fishing buddy paddled hurriedly, ...

Lots of anglers in Ohio go fishing for channel cats, and why not? You can fish for them day or night and often make a good catch, and they’re tasty in the skillet. Most bottom fish for them, but there ...

Over the years I've seen jugs bobbing around on various waterways, and I knew what they were used for, but I'd never done that -- jug fishing. When a member of the Geneseo Chapter of the Izaak Walton ...

Like many other leisure activities, fishing has had its share of innovation and technological advances. But there’s something to be said for “old school” methods — a cane pole, a cork and a worm or ...

Zack Smith and Xan Hayes are students in the fish and wildlife curriculum at Haywood Technical Institute. I happened upon them fishing while at Lake Junaluska. They were fishing in the stream below ...