With runoff still muddying many rivers and streams, though it appears to be tapering off, Big Creek Lakes in Jackson County is our cold-water hotspot for the week. Why? Because John LaCaze and Scott ...

If you live in the northern part of the country, odds are good that you have consistent ice coverage on your local lakes and ponds in winter. You’re lucky, because it means you can save your sanity by ...

The author holds a grayling caught in Alaska. Grayling have an exotic air about them for many anglers in the Lower 48. We've seen them in books and magazines, but they're mostly pictured in far-flung ...

Traveling in winter isn’t always fun. You’ve got to worry about flight delays, blizzards, icy roads, and wind. None of those things, however, are in your control, so you shouldn’t let them sway a ...

Ah, its springtime in the Flathead when a young man’s fancy turns to open water spring fishing, or at least something like that. As we all know, nothing is more enjoyable than being on a lake, in a ...

PAXSON -- The first time I walked into the Grayling Room at Stan Brown's Paxson Lodge was in the 1960s. The Grayling Room was a fancy name for the local bar, but on the wall, in glass cases, were two ...

MOOSE PASS -- Hiking through a thick field of fireweed blooms in full magenta majesty, the trail opened up to the gin-clear water of Crescent Creek. Bob Duhrkoop, having traveled a long way from ...