Freshwater

Ice fishing for smelt is a Maine tradition that involves plenty of food, grog and friends, along with a tiny, silver fish

A writer recalls being lost in sawgrass as a boy, afraid of nothing, working his way from fresh water to salt until he was saved from things he didn’t want to be saved from.

The Devils River wends through the badlands of southwest Texas, unforgiving territory and the backdrop for these paddlers on a four-day quest for smallmouth and largemouth bass.

Two old friends pull story after story from a river of memories as they once again fish the Michigan waters of their boyhood.

Climbing mountains for fish is a spiritual endeavor for the author, whose parents pointed him toward a fuller way of life on Montana’s Northern Cheyenne reservation.

There is a common belief that Atlantic salmon do not feed when migrating upstream. Nonsense, says this enthusiast, who has the evidence to back up his hypothesis.

A longtime guide’s love letter to Montana, where rivers are deep with fishing options and the field of play is as wide as the eye can see.

A father-son relationship is strengthened during a fishing trip to New Zealand, as the young man prepares to leave home and the elder contemplates a new phase in their lives.

A collaboration between the author and a craftsman ended a 30-year quest to solve a hundred-year-old problem: producing a long, functional 2-weight split-cane fly rod.

Two guides embark on a “Jungle Creek” expedition in the southwest Alaska bush before their summer work season begins. Their holy grail is an untouched rainbow fishery.

You start your day hours before sunup, drive the dirt roads and rig in the dark, but the reward makes it worthwhile: hickory shad

The author took a day off last May and went on an 11-hour, 120-mile, three-stream fishing marathon.

A quest for the fierce golden dorado takes the author into the remote Bolivian jungle

The cure for a case of Montana cabin fever is a day on the ice

Fishing the challenging trout streams of Devon, England

It’s no secret that fishing and drinking go hand in hand, and in Livingston, Montana, that means saddling up to the Murray Bar

After a frightening diagnosis, a father and son spend a week immersed in an autumn run

There’s something about bait fishing that has captivated the writer since he was a boy and learned that fish don’t like raisins

Ponds used for watering livestock also serve as prime fishing holes for a Texas family

Five writers unravel why these fish became their favorites

The fly fisherman has ‘this thing’ for browns rising to mayflies

A lifelong infatuation with irascible, beautiful, boulder-leaping rainbows

Tiny trout and memories of young love swirl in ribbons of light and shadows in a pool beneath the cedars

A poem by R.T. Smith