Lower British Columbia Spring Trout Fishing Opportunities
By: Fishing with Rod Southwestern British Columbia is known to have the warmest winter in Canada, where daytime temperature stays above freezing most of the time between December and February. Although...
View ArticleChange Cut Bait Colors on Demand with Fire Dye
By: Mike Ainsworth At the start of springer season, lower than normal water and clearer water than we’ve seen in the past few years on the Columbia River had me focused on running mostly Natural Fire...
View ArticleKerr Lake Blue Cats Straddling the Carolina/Virginia Border
By: Chris Shaffer Virginia and North Carolina’s Kerr Lake has produced the largest blue catfish ever – a 143-pound blue catfish – and while we flew cross country to film an episode of Pautzke Outdoors...
View ArticleWest Virginia’s South Branch of the Potomac Getting Weekly Heavy Trout Plants
By: Chris Shaffer When we called the West Virginia Department of Natural Resources and asked them where their most popular stocked trout fishery was it didn’t take long for them to come back with an...
View ArticleSpring Wintry Conditions Extending Northern Michigan Steelhead Season
By: Kyle McClelland This winter and spring steelhead season was one sent down by the Steelhead Gods in Northern Michigan. Mild weather and rain spread throughout the season provided pushes of fish...
View ArticleOregon’s Lower Willamette Spring Chinook Biting Now!
By: Kyle Buschelman The Willamette River is expecting 70,000 spring Chinook to return for the 2016 season. This is a decent expected return and gives anglers hope for a solid fishery. From April to...
View ArticleSouthern Ontario Steelhead Confused by Wacky Weather
By: Josh Choronzey It is nearly the middle of April and the steelhead of the upper Great Lakes are likely just as confused as I am in terms of understanding Mother Nature’s current attitude. Two weeks...
View ArticlePittsburgh Area Lakes & Steams Open to Trout Fishing Saturday
By: James Swearingen Looking at the forecast for this weekend I’m expecting good conditions for the trout opener in the greater Pittsburgh area. They are calling for rain all day today, which is likely...
View ArticleWest Virginia’s Potomac River Golden Rainbows on the Chew
By: Chris Shaffer We had no plans of fishing the North Fork of the South Branch of the Potomac River. Meanwhile, paralleling the system on the way to the South Branch of the Potomac we couldn’t resist...
View ArticlePennsylvania Golden Rainbows Heavily Stocked for Saturday’s Opener
By: Chris Shaffer Golden rainbows have been stocked in Pennsylvania for almost 50 years. Meanwhile, in today’s social media happy world their popularity is skyrocketing. Photos of large golden rainbows...
View ArticleSouthwest PA Trout Waters To Open Saturday
By: Joey Usher For the last two months the PA Fish and Boat Commission has been working overtime to stock a ton of our lakes, rivers and streams in the greater Southwest PA area. On Saturday I’m...
View ArticleStatewide Pennsylvania Trout Opener Saturday
By: Chris Shaffer The statewide Pennsylvania trout opener takes place tomorrow and with excellent weather conditions expected anglers can expect large crowds and lots of action on multiple species of...
View ArticleWest Virginia’s Shavers Fork Getting Trout Weekly
By: Chris Shaffer A group of five of us had worked our way from the bottom of the tiny town of Bemis up to the bridge and made hundreds of casts into countess holes on Shavers Fork only to catch three...
View ArticleThe Time is Now to Fish Western NC’s Shelton Laurel Creek
By: Chris Shaffer It’s the heart of trout season in Western North Carolina and while the North Carolina Wildlife Resources Commission works overtime to stock as many creeks, lakes and rivers as they...
View ArticleNorth Carolina’s Davidson River Getting Heavy Trout Plants (And Pressure)
By: Chris Shaffer The Davidson River’s hatchery supported section is one of the most heavily fished two miles of river in Western North Carolina. A favorite of day users, campers, hikers and locals,...
View ArticleNortheast Pennsylvania Lake Trout On the Chew
By: James Swearingen I’ve spent my whole life trout fishing in Pennsylvania and had never caught a lake trout. This year a few friends and I decided to check it off the bucket list and booked a charter...
View ArticleLearn to Cure Prawns: For Springers
By: Kyle Buschelman It’s no secret that good bait catches more fish. When it comes to springer fishing, having well cured bait marks the difference between a poor and successful day and being a full...
View ArticleLearn to Make Your Own Cured Kokanee Corn
By: Sam Baird Recently, I wrote a blog on how to super charge Fire Corn to help catch more kokanee. However, I know many of you are purists and only want to cure your own corn, rather than using a...
View ArticleSouthern Ontario Trout & Steelhead Still on Tap
By: Bojan Zivkovic This year’s spring steelhead season has seen smaller numbers of migrating steelhead compared to the last three years. Although fishing has been decent, we’ve had to grind it out when...
View ArticlePittsburgh’s Montour Creek Loaded with Trout
By: Chris Shaffer Heavy rain blew out Pittsburgh’s Montour Creek over the weekend. The creek ran high and muddy Sunday and Monday before returning to a somewhat normal flow yesterday. As the creek...
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