We're out here on Lake Ontario trolling for lake trout. It's early May and the water temperature is 44 degrees Fahrenheit (6 degrees Celsius. I've chosen to run with the American Smelt - specifically ...

If you think about fly fishing or river fishing in general, chances are that a brown trout comes to mind. Catching a big brown is the pinnacle for many trout anglers, whether fishing with fly gear or ...

From trolling spinners for weed walleye, to swinging streamers for big browns, to frog fishing for summer bass, these stories captured our Sports Illustrated fishing reader’s attention on Fishing on ...

Trout fishing is really picking up right now. Alpine lakes and creeks are in peak season, high elevation reservoirs like Horsethief and Cascade are producing, and even C.J. Strike is giving up some ...

On some of the country’s best trout streams, catch-and-release may be doing more harm than good. So should we be killing more ...

For decades, Dillon Reservoir has been a place where anglers could hook the fish of a lifetime — a 10-pound, 30-inch wild brown trout. But the brown trout population in one of Colorado’s most visible ...

Steve Jones, 72, regularly fishes Shaver Lake northeast of Fresno in Central California. He started fishing the lake as a youngster with his father, and he knows it well after all these years. On ...