The Schrantz brothers—Dennis, Tim, Joe, and Mike—live in four different states, but each year they all get together for one week in October to fish the Salmon River. “We’ve been doing it for about 10 ...

My fishing guide, Shiloh Patterson, vividly remembers the first time he hooked a king salmon back in 1997. The fight lasted only 10 seconds before his line snapped, but it was all he could talk about ...

A low, moist fog hung over the Smith River, cloaking the secrets of what has become the world's No. 1 fly-fishing river for giant salmon. As we pushed off in the drift boat, my partner, Ed Rice of ...

ON THE PENOBSCOT RIVER, Maine—As any fisherman will tell you, small fish are better than no fish. But I didn’t come here for the little guys. Ask around in knowledgeable fly-fishing circles and you’ll ...

Tiger Slough is an underutilized ice fishing destination just off the Pend Oreille River and Highway 20 in Pend Oreille County. It is east of Colville and north of Metaline Falls. Ice anglers there ...