The sun was almost down when Jack called out. “I’m on,” he said, and I watched him lean back as the fish turned and made its first run.

I clearly remember that moment when my fishing DNA changed forever.

My mind was unconsciously running through the 20 other places I would no doubt have been better off standing.

When fishing deep, it’s hard to beat these simple chrome-over-lead bruisers

Who answers the phone at 3:30 a.m., chats amiably, swaps helpful information, wishes the caller good luck but doesn’t go back to sleep humming a lullaby of curses?

A retired Northwest guide remembers an epic battle with a mint-bright giant chinook, ‘a once in a lifetime fish’

When it comes to big-game fishing, sometimes it’s better to be lucky than good.

There’s nothing quite like fishing for striped bass as they dine on spawning cinder worms

The dolphin were running small off southeastern Florida last summer. You learned that if you were in the Gulf Stream fishing sargassum weed lines for Mr. Big, but you also could have found out from a police blotter that the catch was not as hot as the weather.