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.

Ten. Americans obsess over the number. We compile top 10 lists; you need 10 yards to get a first down; and in 1979, Bo Derek starred in a movie about physical perfection with the appropriate title 10.

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 ...

Big fish eat little fish. The entire sport of angling is predicated on this natural fact. If predatory fish survived any other way, people like Lauri Rapala and Fred Arbogast would never have become ...

Austin Anderson, a 28-year-old professional carp and buffalo fishing guide, was fishing by himself on June 10 from the bank of Lady Bird Lake when he hooked into a life-changing fish. Two days before, ...

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Chris Key was visiting the Cumberland River to fish for striped bass and walleye, but he found something much bigger. Did you know there are big, ancient fish swimming in Kentucky's water?A ...

A pair of fishermen struck gold while fishing over the weekend at Big Bear Lake, each reeling in their own fish worth $10,000. It's the first time in the more than 25-year history of the Fishing for ...