Lucas

The stillness of the boat and a full cooler leaves you feeling pretty good; however, what lies beneath that sense of satisfaction is an economic … Read more

Measuring fish gives you look into a world you couldn’t otherwise see. The water looks empty from your position on the shore of a lake … Read more

It’s obvious even before you wet a line. You can see it in the packed parking lot on Saturday morning, the trampled grass at the … Read more

Timing and biology is critical parts of sustainable fishing, but the word alone doesn’t cover everything. It isn’t just about catching fewer fish. It is … Read more

If you own a pond, most likely you have an idea how many fish is in your pond. Chances are, you’re wrong. Most don’t live … Read more

Water quality is something that concerns us all, but it’s hard to know what we should be concerned with or even how to quantify it. … Read more

There you are holding a Secchi disk in one hand and a dipnet in the other. On a calm afternoon, you can see down six … Read more

So there you are standing on the bank with a line in the water, staring at lake full of fish and wondering if any of … Read more

It happens; you pull a scale off a largemouth bass, pin it under a microscope and see a series of faint rings. They are not … Read more

So what do you do when you think they’re big enough to keep, but you don’t know? Everyone’s been there before. The fish is a … Read more

Do you need to know if largemouth bass are pre-spawn? Does it matter whether they’re ready or not? That’s going to help understand their seasonal … Read more