What Are Planer Boards and Why Use Them? Planer boards are effective tools for fishing multiple lines to the side of your boat. Fishing with multiple lines (where legal) helps you cover a lot of water ...

There's nothing more thrilling in the sport of bass fishing than watching a hell-bent largemouth clobber a topwater bait. Whether its a popper twitched subtly across a flat during the calm early ...

I have to say, when I asked Brad Chappell of Ridgeland about his preference in techniques for summer crappie on Lake Washington during a recent interview, I wasn't expecting him to use the words ...

ON YELLOW LAKE, Wis. — We weren’t quite in No Man’s Land, but we were a few casts away. We were puttering along around .3 mph in 25 feet of water perhaps 100 yards from any drop-off or noteworthy ...

Julie Garcia of Grangeville fishes for steelhead from the bank of the Salmon River. Pete Zimowsky Special to the Idaho Statesman The goldish-pink Wiggle Wart steelhead lure did its magic in the ...

A Lake Superior troller, John Ehlers grew tired of losing fish. He knew it happened when his line was momentarily slack after it released from a downrigger cable or a planer board. So Ehlers started ...

Being an Iowan, it's only natural that Tommy Skarlis uses an agricultural analogy to explain his approach to crappie fishing. "Why use a two-row corn picker when you can use a combine?" asks the ...

Dan Spence has a reputation on Canyon Ferry Reservoir. He’s the guy who other anglers say trolls fast — really fast. He’s the guy who zigs and zags in his trolling — a lot. And he’s one of the guys ...