Some days on the bank, the fish will feed aggressively, and you can’t get your rig in fast enough, but those red-letter days are few and far between. Most of the time, success comes from making the ...

You can have the most expensive pole, the best bait and be sat on the flyer peg, but all this will count for nothing if you don’t know how to plumb up properly when pole fishing. Too many anglers are ...

This story, “Flipjacking,” appeared in the November 1956 issue of Outdoor Life. Daylight was only a pale promise on the horizon as Walker Cline and I pulled away from a dock on Indian Lake in western ...