After the long winter we had, it has been refreshing to check off the boxes of another spring season. The first striped bass of the year is ...

It's been a cold winter and I squeezed as much out of it as possible. I fished through ice on 10 different days, in four different month...

What an impressive winter we're in the midst of. Connecticut hasn't experienced one this cold since 2017. Ice anglers can fish just ...

The number of false alarms was starting to remind me of The Boy Who Cried Wolf . The flag on one of my Heritage Lakers kept going up with no...

Our footprints were the only ones on the lake aside from the coyote tracks we followed to our spot. It was a deliberate walk in single file,...

Last weekend's short-lived arctic blast produced just enough ice in Connecticut for one memorable day of hardwater fishing. Knowing this...

Usually my inaugural fish each year is caught while ice fishing in Connecticut. It goes with saying that wouldn't be the case this year....

The late, great Tom Petty said it best: "the waiting is the hardest part." That's how I and many other ice fishermen feel this...

Red-winged blackbirds are calling in the marshes. Stonflies are hatching on thin blue lines. Osprey and river herring are arriving any day. ...

I have hooked and landed longer brown trout through the ice, but never one so heavy. This fish was stuffed yet still had room for my pike sh...

I really enjoy ice fishing with tip-ups, but there is something special, and different, about jigging. Hooking and fighting my quarry throug...

Catching a beautiful northern pike through the ice will always be exciting, but experiencing it with my daughter for the first time brought ...

It’s hard to know exactly when the last day of ice season will be. You can tell when it’s getting close, but the thought of sneaking in one ...