It’s never too early to prepare your winter fly box. Here are some of our don’t-leave-home-without fly patterns for the coming season: Akin to Charlie Craven’s Two-Bit Hooker, this Dream Cast pattern ...

I knew I could have been deer hunting. But fall is also a great time for striped bass fishing. I had that point driven home when the rod next to me bowed in a deep arch in its holder. I pulled back ...

Press releases are posted on Independent.com as a free community service. (SANTA BARBARA, Calif.) — On August 7, 2025, the California Environmental Protection Agency’s Office of Environmental Health ...

Although throwing topwater baits is exciting, expecting those explosive blow-ups, reaction baits with better hook-up ratios will put more fish in your boat during Tennessee River reservoir shad-spawns ...

In an early May Bass Pro Tour tournament on the Tennessee River, Major League Fishing pro David Walker explained the importance of playing your cards right when a shad-spawn bite goes bust, switching ...

this spring and early summer calls for big bugs that land with a splat. Because the major emergences are infrequent, cicada patterns may not be on every angler’s annual checklist of must-have flies.

The annual threadfin shad spawn has begun on both Belton and Stillhouse Hollow lakes and brings with it a number of new options and opportunities which the winter’s cold water period did not offer.

PHOENIX, Ariz. (KVOA) - The Arizona Game and Fish Department confirmed the presence of golden algae in Saguaro Lake in early February following a minor fish kill. The threadfin shad were primarily ...

The "big baits catch big fish" theory sometimes flies right out the window when it comes to catching striped bass at Beaver Lake. Chasing stripers that weigh 20 to 30 pounds is enough of a challenge.

There’s no official fly-tying season, but if there was it would be in the depths of winter. The image of a fly tier hunched over their fly-tying vise on a cold winter’s night is about as romantic as ...

Dave Burruss of Clear Lake Outdoors reports that black bass fishing at the lake is good for anglers when using their livescope. The fish are feeding on schools of threadfin shad, so as you can imagine ...