This story, “Getting the Bait’s a Bail,” appeared in the May 1970 issue of Outdoor Life. The morning sparkled as bright and shiny as a new dime. The river was clear and purling along, its voices ...

A bobber is a device that alerts an angler that a fish has taken his bait. It comes in many forms, including the universally recognizable red-and-white plastic sphere that clips to the line from the ...

For years, ice anglers were told they had to downsize to catch fish. Fish are cold blooded and their metabolism slows in winter, so we need to use tiny lures to catch these fickle feeders, we thought.

Everybody wants to catch big bass. Visions of giant largemouths smashing topwaters and brute smallies peeling line are what keep us all up at night—and what get us out of bed at 4 am to be the first ...

The expert anglers at Milliken Fishing experience nonstop action while catching fish on nearly every cast at a new spillway.