Legendary north woods guide Greg Bohn is known as Mr. Slip Bobber for a good reason -- he's spent the past 30 years in northern Wisconsin perfecting the tactic that is one of the most used and least ...

Fishermen often over-analyze a situation, make techniques and approaches too complex. We end up outsmarting ourselves. We can cite a million reasons, from the weather to the calendar, for why fish ...

George Toalson just smiled as I told him that he was pretty darned good at the crappie-catching game. He had just told me exactly where to cast and I’d caught four fish in a row. “Toss it right off ...

MUNITH — Every once in a while you discover a fishing technique by accident and that’s exactly how Chris Freiburger got on the pattern that produced for us on his home lake in late September.

Bobbers: Paired with small jigs (or hooks), split shots, and live bait, bobber rigs work year around, although I find them to work best during spring. Jigs: Lead, glass, and tungsten jigs all have a ...

I don't care what you are fishing for, whether bluegills or catfish: If slip bobbers are not incorporated into your techniques, you are not as effective at catching as you should be. Bobbers are ...

I can’t remember exactly when I started utilizing a simple trolling method using small jigs for catching summertime fish. However, I know it is a pattern I have fished for 30 years or more. I also ...

A silvery torpedo of a fish captured the imagination of Rudyard Kipling on the Clackamas River more than a century ago. And now, after weeks of sodden cabin fever, you're pondering the long-range ...

A book on the shelf next to my desk tells that the common crappie bass has 68 different names. Call it what you will — crappie, croppy, calico bass, white perch, strawberry bass, speckled perch, ...

Something about bobber fishing has hooked me since childhood. It is there, very real and so enticing, but I can’t exactly tell you why it is so appealing. Perhaps it is the cadence of the float as it ...

Just when anglers thought rattlers have been installed in all manner of lures, the Plastilite Corporation of Omaha comes up with the Rat-L-Bob. The red and black plastic bobber is loaded with steel ...