Big means 3-pound crappie, pie plate bluegills and smallmouth bass that run upward of 5 pounds. I spent the last week of June in such a world, in the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness of northern ...

Fly fishing at its most basic level is just another technique for catching fish. On a deeper level, it’s both a blood sport and an art form that is partly based around making the act of fishing more ...

At Lake Katherine Nature Center and Botanic Gardens in Palos Heights, visitors may be as active — or relaxed — as they wish. Walk your dog, bicycle along the Cal-Sag Channel, paddle a canoe or learn ...

Whether you’re a waterfowl hunter, an angler, or both, you’ve likely pondered the canoe vs kayak question. Each watercraft has its merits, and they’re both excellent choices for traversing small ...

Where I like to fish, come late April, life turns viable again. Fiddleheads. Trees leafing out. Loons calling. And smallmouth bass, after a long fast, are ravenous and bedridden as they prepare to ...

Left to right: Sandra Phinney, Norm Betts, Laura Gilks and Jim Lyons pose with Bella, Phinney’s canoe, handcrafted at Betts’ Miramichi Canoe Co. in Doaktown, N.B. (Photo: Sue Hutchins) At 9:20 a.m. on ...

Thirty-three years ago this week I was living in the Canadian bush and was the camp manager at Chimo Lodge and Outposts, which is a fly-in fishing camp. It was my second season and I had made an ...