Ponds

These lines highlight the importance of personal freedom and refusal to follow the crowd. From my experience, I believe there are many applications in business and investing for which this advice holds...View article

Fish live in an overwhelming number and type of aquatic communities throughout North America. The word community is a good description because it suggests they adapt to and function within their local...View article

Stream trout—rainbows, browns, and brookies—probably prefer open water over their heads at all times, but many are stocked in ponds, lakes and reservoirs throughout the frozen north. Being coldwater...View article

Millions of anglers sit at home in winter waiting for spring to bring crappies into the shallows. Why wait? Many places have shallow, open-water crappies all winter long. From the flatland reservoirs...View article

You will be allowed one style of plastic bait for smallmouth bass. One style to fish all year, to the exclusion of all else, by decree of the Tired Old Magistrate of Hackneyed Expressions (call him...View article

The saying, "Timing is everything," never was more valid than when plotting the capture of huge largemouth bass. The effects of season, time of day, and physical (but barely tangible) factors like moon...View article

"Get ready!" Gregg Meyer shouted, scanning the graph screen. "They're stacked at 13 to 16 feet." At a trolling speed of 2 miles an hour, our lures were due to pass through the school in seconds. On...View article

Biologists call bass opportunistic predators, meaning they may at times eat almost any sort of living thing small enough to cram into their capacious maws. Smallmouths eat peamouth in the Columbia River,...View article

It doesn't seem long ago that crappie fishing conjured pastoral images of rural anglers with simple tackle, wielding cane poles on oxbow lakes and ponds or lobbing minnows at brushpiles and stumps on...View article

Largemouth bass return to the shallows during the brief transition period between the end of the cold-water season and the beginning of spring. The frigid water warms just enough to release bass from...View article