16 guides

Fishing guides by state and season

Specific beats general. These guides cover one species, in one place, at one time of year — the water, the timing, the patterns and the presentations that actually apply there.

Colorado

Summer Trout Fishing in Colorado: Tailwaters, Freestones and High Country

Colorado's summer trout fishing spans runoff, hopper season and high-alpine lakes. A guide to the South Platte, Arkansas, Blue, Fryingpan, Gunnison and…

Florida

Peacock Bass Fishing in South Florida: A Miami Canal Guide

Butterfly peacock bass live in the canal systems of Miami-Dade, Broward and Palm Beach counties and nowhere else in the continental United States. Here is…

Spring Largemouth Bass Fishing in Florida: Where and When to Go

Florida's largemouth spawn runs from January through April, moving north up the peninsula as the season progresses. Here is how to time it across Okeechobee,…

Illinois

Summer Carp Fishing in Illinois: Chicago Canals, the Fox and the Illinois River

Illinois has world-class carp water running through the middle of Chicago, and almost nobody fishes it seriously. A guide to the harbors, the Chain O'Lakes,…

Iowa

Spring Walleye Fishing in Iowa: The Mississippi, the Iowa Great Lakes and the Reservoirs

Iowa's walleye season opens with the Mississippi River tailwaters in March and rolls into the Iowa Great Lakes and the interior reservoirs by May. Where to go…

Louisiana

Fall Redfish Fishing in Louisiana: Delacroix, Venice, Cocodrie and Calcasieu

Fall is the best redfish season in the best redfish state. Where to go across the Louisiana marsh — Delacroix, Hopedale, Venice, Lafitte, Cocodrie, Grand Isle…

Minnesota

Ice Fishing for Walleye in Minnesota: Lakes, Timing and Tactics

A practical guide to Minnesota's hard-water walleye season — Lake of the Woods, Upper Red, Mille Lacs, Leech, Winnibigoshish and Rainy — including when each…

New Jersey

Fall Striped Bass Fishing in New Jersey: The Fall Run from Sandy Hook to Cape May

New Jersey's fall striped bass run is one of the great events in American fishing. Where to intercept it from the surf, the inlets and the boat — Raritan Bay,…

New York

Fall Smallmouth Bass Fishing in New York: The St. Lawrence, the Finger Lakes and Lake Erie

October and November are the best smallmouth months of the year in New York. Here is where to find them across the St. Lawrence River, the eastern basin of…

Pennsylvania

Fall Steelhead Fishing in Pennsylvania: Erie's Steelhead Alley Tributaries

Elk Creek, Walnut Creek and the rest of Pennsylvania's Lake Erie tributaries fill with steelhead from October through spring. When the runs happen, how to…

Tennessee

Spring Crappie Fishing in Tennessee: Reelfoot, Kentucky Lake, Chickamauga and Percy Priest

Tennessee crappie move shallow from March into May, and the timing shifts west to east across the state. A guide to Reelfoot, Kentucky Lake, Old Hickory,…

Texas

Winter Speckled Trout Fishing in Texas: Baffin Bay, the Laguna Madre and Galveston

Winter is trophy season for Texas speckled trout. Where the big fish go on the Upper and Lower Laguna Madre, Baffin Bay, Rockport and the Galveston complex,…

Wisconsin

Fall Muskie Fishing in Wisconsin: The Trophy Window

October and November are when Wisconsin gives up its biggest muskies. Where to fish across the Chippewa Flowage, the Hayward lakes, Green Bay, the…

Ice Fishing for Bluegill in Wisconsin: Finding the Slabs

Wisconsin's winter bluegill fishing is world class if you know where the big ones are — which is almost never where the crowd is. A guide to the Winnebago…

Ontario

Summer Northern Pike Fishing in Ontario: Where the Big Ones Go When It Gets Hot

Ontario holds some of the best pike water on the continent, but summer splits the population — hammer handles in the weeds and trophies somewhere cooler.…

Yukon

Summer Arctic Grayling Fishing in the Yukon: Rivers, Roads and the Dempster

The Yukon may be the most accessible world-class grayling fishery on earth — much of it reachable from a highway. Where to fish around Whitehorse, Carmacks,…

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