Goetze: Some my favorite memories involve occasions when family, friends, and I took off, hung up the sign, so to speak, and ...

Some decent numbers coming in deeper water using Carolina rigs, football jigs, Nemo rigs and shaky head worms. Crappie fishing is excellent using jigs and minnows around brush piles and old timber in ...

The North Fork seems to be best with jigs, creature baits, or deep crankbaits such as Rapala DT’s in 10 or 14 in both Demon .

Finding hints of perch and getting itchy for ice fishing lead this sprawling raw-file Midwest Fishing Report. Sam Eble emailed the photo at the top two weeks ago, then I screwed up and lost track of ...

One thing that bait shop owners should realize is that their customers enjoy telling their own stories and not just listening ...

The bait (baby perch, bluegills, crayfish, and minnows) and the bass moved shallow ... Walleye hit early in day on a Rapala OG slim on an erratic retrieve cadence. Bass were 17” chunks fun ...

He recommends fishing between Prairie Creek park and Point 6. Stripers should move south as the water cools. Average surface water temperature is in the upper 60s. Shad or brood minnows are the ...

Prepared trout baits fished on light line should work. During power generation, drift fish with Pautzke Fire Worms of Fire Minnows. Best fishing is between U.S. 62 bridge and Houseman Access.

Crappie are slow with some decent size fish suspended in 16-20 feet of water with minnows. Catfish are fair in 10-16 feet of water stink bait, liver and nightcrawlers. Bream are fair on red worms ...

Fishing guide Stanley Gresham says bass fishing has been good ... Crappie fishermen are pulling a few limits off brush piles and old timber in 18-28 feet of water using minnows and jigs; forward sonar ...