Author: Angler
This website aims to help the reader in making their time on the water as fruitful as possible, as well as giving them something to think about when there's no water in sight.
September marks the start of steelhead season all around the Great Lakes. While steelhead can be caught in the deep waters of the lakes during the summer, it is the autumn steelhead spawning run that brings out the biggest number of anglers. Steelhead are larger than the vast majority of trout in the United States, and …
Every September huge numbers of king and coho salmon make their semi-annual spawning runs into the tributaries that feed the Great Lakes. Waters like the Salmon River in New York fill up with salmon that often weigh twenty pounds or more. Countless anglers arrive at the same time, trying to hook up with these bruisers. Once …
It’s September, which means it is time for the Steelhead in the Great Lakes to make their annual spawning runs and flood into the tributaries. Many anglers will follow the fish in hopes of hooking up with a few. Some of them will catch fish. Others will be skunked. There are many ways to fish, but …
Fishing can be as simple as tying a hook to a line, putting a worm on a hook, and throwing it out into the water. If you want to get serious about fishing however, things can quickly get complicated. One of the beautiful things about fishing is that you can decide how deep you want to …
The hair rig has been one of the most common rigs used for carp and catfish in Europe since it was first invented some years ago. It isn’t commonly used in other parts of the world like the United States but it probably should be. When fishing for certain species of fish it one of the …
The slinky drift rig is one of the two most common rigs used for drifting bait in moving water. The other is the floating drift rig. The slinky drift rig is most used for salmon and steelhead fishing in the Great Lakes and along the West Coast of the United States. It is also used a …
The floating drift rig one of the most common drift rigs used to catch fish in moving water. The other is the slinky drift rig. These rigs are often employed to catch salmon and steelhead but they can work just as well for most other fish in flowing water to. Fish living in moving water watch …
One of the most simplistic and least used fishing rigs can also be one of the most effective. The free line rig isn’t much of a rig at all yet it can work incredibly well. The free line rig is exactly that. A line that floats freely in the water. Tying it requires nothing more than …
The slip sinker rig, also known as “the Carolina rig”, is one of the most common and useful of all fishing rigs. It is very versatile and can be scaled up and down depending on the situation. A slip sinker rig can be used in two different ways. The Carolina rig is usually used for bass …
It’s the time of the year when millions begin the frenzied and often fruitless quest to find the perfect gift for the special people in their lives. If those people are interested in fishing there is an untold number of products out there that may interest them. At the same time there countless others that may …
