IF YOU DIDN’T know better, you may have assumed the fish was dead. You could have easily walked by it, a passing glance convincing you it was just a rotten log. Its dull gray back is the same color as ...

Ben Erb is a lifelong fisherman and Minnesotan who likes catching bass and walleyes just as much as the next guy. But his secret passion is targeting what others might call “rough fish,” hardy but ...

Jimmy Fee with a bowfin that sucked up a fresh shad chunk. September is a funky month. It’s still kind of summer but also a little bit fall. It’s a transitional time, which means summer patterns for ...

The question of bowfin vs snakehead isn’t so much a matter of which is better—but of which is which. These long, snake-like fish are easily confused with one another. And that’s a problem, because ...

Southeast Texas sloughs, oxbows, bayous and rivers can fairly vibrate with a primeval energy that either fascinates or intimidates human visitors to swamps. On a fishing trip earlier this month to one ...