I was fishing with my friend Shane Gesell recently near Alexandria, Minn. It was on this trip that I re-remembered why netting the fish that’s on the end of your line can be a good idea. Actually, ...

It’s not over ‘til it’s over. That phrase is highly applicable to fishing because anglers understand that until a fish in landed and secured, anything can happen—no matter how sure you are that ...

LUMMI ISLAND, Whatcom County — If you’d sailed into the San Juan archipelago over 200 years ago, you might have seen Lummi fishermen in two dugout canoes anchored parallel to each other, a net in the ...

KIANA — Noah Wells, 65, grew up in the 1960s, a time when nearly every family set up white wall tents and drying racks on the beach in Kiana during fishing season. Families partnered up and seined for ...

An action packed topwater session that took an unexpected turn as I became the one netting fish for everyone else.