April 2, 2024 The time to prepare for another season of shorebound Striped Bass fishing has come and gone, and the time to catch fish is upon us. Here is how my thoughts have gone. This past week, I entered the garage, turned several five gallon buckets of random stuff upside down, and began sorting … Read more
You’ve dropped your anchor, deployed your trolling motor, or set your gear down on the rocky shoreline. You take a pair of shears to your favorite crab species, bait up, and you’re fishing. A minute goes by, then another. Nothing has taken the bait. Boredom sets in; you think about making a minor adjustment, and … Read more
While visiting my girlfriend in Ohio, we spent a few hours fishing along the Willoughby-Eastlake portion of the Chagrin River. The outing yielded my first ever steelhead, measuring 26 inches long. The fish fell to a 1/16oz jighead with a 2″ Berkley Power Minnow. A fish I have long dreamt of catching, this lake-run rainbow … Read more
Winter in Massachusetts forces many fishermen off the water while the cold weather moves in and ice begins to cover many of the state’s freshwater bodies. There are a number of lakes and ponds near Boston with ice fishing access. Before venturing onto the ice, it is important to do so safely in order to … Read more
Every year, freshwater fishermen sit at their computer screens, refreshing the trout stocking report to see if their local fishing haunts have been stocked with a bounty of rainbow trout, brown trout, brook trout, and a brown/brook hybrid, the tiger trout. This year, Massachusetts Fisheries and Wildlife stocked those four aforementioned trout species across Massachusetts … Read more