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> Gord Pyzer: I've searched for more than4o years to find a winter pike spot that is the equal of the one I've illustrated for this article. Some come close, [...]

You're flying higher than a kid on Christmas morning as you climb into the co-pilot seat of the floatplane that's tied to the dock at a remote northern Canadian air [...]

If I hadn't seen it with my own eyes and felt the sudden jolt from dozens of huge lake trout reverberate between my shoulder blades, I would never have believed [...]

Pre-baiting an ice-fishing spot to attract walleyes, sauger, lake trout, pike, yellow perch, and whitefish, and chumming your hole while you're fishing, may be the most overlooked facet of the [...]

Most pike waters are complex worlds with considerable diversity, from the aquatic equivalent of lush rainforests to hostile deserts; yet, unlike our world--where landforms and features are relatively static--the environment [...]

I saw magic last autumn when 1 fished with moving-water muskie expert Wally Robins and Southeast Ontario's Ottawa River Muskie Factory owner and Guide John Anderson. They do things to [...]

You've fantasized about it for years, right down to mentally packing your tackle and rigging your rods and now the rubber is hitting the road. Your time has come to [...]

'Did I hear you correctly?' Duane Kurbis, Arctic Lodges camp manager asked when I suggested visiting northern Saskatchewan's Reindeer Lake during the final week of August. 'Do you really want [...]

It usually pays to be as cunning and crafty as possible when you're fishing for walleye, bass, trout, and other species savvy anglers often drop a marker buoy over the [...]

I believe that what sets In-Fisherman apart from the other magazines is landing on the cutting edge of fishing and being able to look around the corner--spotting the promising new [...]

We Can Catch So many fish species through a hole in the ice--walleyes, yellow perch, black crappies, pike, even smallmouth, largemouth, and catfish--but winter fishing for them isn't prime time. [...]

Some smallmouth bass fisheries are on fire these days--hotter than a green-chile cheeseburger, especially those in the mid- and northern portions of their range. Nowhere is this more apparent than [...]

At the end of the Second World War, Winston Churchill described the Soviet Union as 'a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma.' Churchill just as easily could have [...]

Anglers across North America are indebted to a handful of distinguished scientists--John Casselman, Peter Colby, John Forney and Dennis Schupp, four of the most important names in walleye history, who [...]

The ancient Roman poet, Ovid, wrote that the mythical Phoenix lives not 'on fruit or flowers, but on frankincense and odoriferous gums. When it has lived 500 years, it builds [...]

* BIG RIDEAU LAKE ONTARIO Multispecies >> On the largest lake on the Rideau Canal, just southwest of Ottawa, anglers target big largemouths in weedy shallows, while smallmouths roam in [...]

The entire time I was fighting the steel-head I was looking over my shoulder, half expecting an Alaskan brown bear to walk out of the forest. The rugged North Shore [...]

Smallmouths * Lakes like 80-mile long Okanagan, at Kelowna, and Osoyoos, in the warm, lush, southern Okanagan Valley, grow big smallmouths, including a recent 9.4-pounder. Four-pounders and 40-fish days are [...]

Many of US have lists of things we want to accomplish before we pass on to the calm blue water in the sky, especially lists brimming with gills and fins. [...]

Multispecies >> The area between the Bay of Quinte and the mouth of the St. Lawrence River produces double-digit walleyes and 5-pound smallmouths, often in the same day. Add to [...]

Muskies * The next world-record muskie may well be caught from the St. Lawrence River, during fall when the giants migrate Into the river from Lake Ontario. Huge smallmouths, largemouths, [...]

Brook Trout * A century after it produced the 14.5-pound world record, this fishery remains the finest drive-to trophy destination on earth--plus trout, steelhead, and whitefish. Contact: Guides and accommodations, [...]

East, West, and North Shoal lakes, interconnected prairie lakes sandwiched between giant Lake Winnipeg and Lake Manitoba, about 50 miles northwest of Winnipeg, have a vibrant perch population. Of the [...]

Smallmouths * Six-, seven-, and eight-pound fish are being caught and many say it won't be long before a ten-pound smallmouth shows up from this impoundment of the St. Lawrence [...]

QUEBEC Saugers The river offers exceptional sauger fishing, with plenty of 20-inch-plus fish weighing over 3 pounds. Contact: Guide Marc Thorpe, 450/433-4784, [...]

Trout * Contact an Ontario Natural Resource office in Atikokan, Fort Frances, Kenora, or Dryden for a list of designated small lakes stocked with speckled trout, rainbows, and splake. Walk [...]

ONTARIO Perch * Arguably the best perch fishery in the world--for numbers, and fish of 2 pounds--it's just north of Toronto. The action is on Cook's Bay in the south, [...]