How to Spear Alaskan Whitefish

It was the first time Alex Dietz got out on the water after the birth of his first child, a daughter named Willow, a month prior—certainly an auspicious moment for any angler. Dec. 19 brought a chill over Oregon’s hallowed Deschutes River, where he and friends were nymphing for the river’s native...

The thick late-winter Alaskan ice shelters a healthy population of Burbot, the poor man’s lobster. An educated angler knows the cold, dark hours of the winter are the time to pull this freshwater cod species to the surface. Steve partners up with Brandt Meixell to utilize local techniques to pull...

A joint investigation by three state wildlife agencies netted more than a dozen fish poachers accused of illegally harvesting hundreds of vulnerable lake whitefish. The violations, which took place on whitefish spawning grounds in the Menominee River between Menominee, Michigan, and Marinette...