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A couple of weeks ago my buddy Paul Dubas and I were fishing the Tongue River and trying to connect on trout and smallmouth bass. Though we had some hits on streamers, neither Dubas nor I managed to ...

I was walking along the banks of a remote stretch of the Pecos River when I spotted something at the water’s edge: a blue plastic box, the size of a small book, out of place in this unpeopled land of ...

LEWISTON – They are abundant, challenging and strong. Even so, people wrinkle their noses at the lowly carp, a species that some have nicknamed “sewer salmon.” But the warm-water fish does have a ...

RIFLE, Colo. – As many of you already know, fly fishing for carp is easily one of my favorite springtime activities. In recent years, fly fishing for carp has become the hot, new fish in fly fishing ...

The common carp widely is considered to be a "junk fish" in the U.S. even though they were brought here initially for their food value. The carp is pound-for-pound one of the larger and harder fish to ...

While hobbling around on a gimp foot that I broke a few weeks ago, I haven’t been fishing as much as I generally do. Don’t feel too bad for me though, I’ve still been getting out there twice a week on ...

The mass of lily pads jerked and swayed 10 feet in front of our approaching boat. Something big was bulldozing its way through the watery undergrowth. With fly rod in hand, I watched a 2-foot-long ...

Fishing for carp and smallies on the Beaver Island flats is earning renown the world ’round. Our correspondent investigates, fly rod in hand. “Do you see it?” This is the seventh time my guide has ...

As strategy or prediction, the comment rang true. “I could stand around and watch fish all day,” Tom Walther said from the bank of the South Platte River in downtown Denver. And during a ...

Fishermen, like most “experts” (especially stock brokers) are far better at explaining what happened than in predicting what will happen. Plus, as we’re always warned, “Past performance is no ...