To paraphrase William Wallace, “They may take away our” basketball, baseball and hockey, “but they’ll never take” our fishing!
If you’ve seen one coho season in Michigan City you’ve seen, well, one coho season.
More Chinook, better quality coho, but no Skamania for the Little Calumet River system.
Plenty of smacks, slurps and tugs on the ol’ floating frog, but zero hook-ups, during the first half dozen casts.
What if they're bigger?
Not fishing during "pre-fishing" was key to victory in the big North American Ice Fishing Circuit contest at Pine Lake in La Porte on Sunday.
Bigger, better and more of them.
MICHIGAN CITY — A welcome thump stopped a retrieve mere feet from the rod tip on lower Trail Creek on Tuesday.
Wait until next year. That has been my thought on perch all summer.
MICHIGAN CITY – A massive surge of Skamania steelhead last weekend added another "wow" moment to a season of wows for Lake Michigan trollers.
Anglers from a few different places caught steelhead all over during the 28th annual Skamania Mania fishing contest weighing in at Michigan City last weekend.
Spots, dots and green/glow tape: a few favorite add-ons to make Lake Michigan trolling spoons pop.
Loads of tasty coho, a few good browns and some very impressive steelhead trout.
Hulking shadows in small streams, Sandhill cranes crooning northward and bright-red filets prepped for the grill.
Flood, mud and melted ice putting the kibosh on your fishing this weekend? Perhaps an Outdoor Show will suffice.
Very interesting, in spite of wretched ice conditions.
The best-ever ice fishing weekend starts on Friday night in La Porte.
Here is wishing there will be ice fishing in a couple weeks.
A native species, and the once most plentiful fish in Lake Michigan, may be poised for a comeback, especially if Charles Bronte of the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service has a say.
The best and biggest in the ice fishing business are coming to La Porte in February.
Upon review, 2017 may best be summed as "gone with the wind."
Rich Jendrzejczyk of Westville landed a whopping 15-pound, seven-ounce steelhead to win the 32nd annual Indiana State Stream Tournament on Saturday.
Lots of hand wringing over the lack of deer in many hunted spots around here, but it’s really nothing new.
Nothing like a buck in nearby brush to get the adrenaline coursing early in the morning.
"The southern shores of Lake Michigan with its tall dunes, white sand, and blue water reminds me quite a bit of the east coast of Australia, well, except for the coral reefs and animals that can kill you."
All in — Chinook salmon at the local tributaries, that is.
Perched for a comeback.
Like all dumb deeds, I've never heard a good reason for littering.
Hopefully, one will soon be zinging line off a reel near you. Big, brawling, 20-pound salmon, that is.
A dove hunting opener and a big salmon contest highlight the holiday weekend.
Blip. blip. Ka-Blam!
I'd be happy with a salmon half this size.
In the span of 40 minutes Saturday evening, just outside the Michigan City Lighthouse, an unassuming, two-inch Rapala caught a sheepshead, a jumbo perch, a brown trout and a chinook.
An unusual tactic led to the best perch catch of the season on Tuesday.
Wasn't intending to fish bluegills on Monday, but stormy weather curtailed perch plans and the excessive rain muddied steelhead hopes.
Piscatorial fireworks.
It's big, it's free and it starts here on Saturday.
A brutal wind forecast, not the fishing, was the main topic among anglers preparing for the Hoosier Coho Club Classic, set for this weekend in Michigan City.
Great birds, great opener on Wednesday.
Crank, crank, crunch.
A couple of great reasons to grab the rods and go today; the forecast is for temps in the 70s and the fishing is free.
For two days last May, they were the best of the best on Lake Michigan.
Lake trout limit up, alewife population down (again) and chinook stocking to stay the same for another year in Michigan City.
A few rule changes are in store for the venerable Hoosier Coho Club Classic, which is set for May 6-7 in Michigan City.
Fish approved, sort of.
Two things seem certain about weather and fishing.
For the first time in years, there will be an outdoors show in Northwest Indiana.
There are plenty of places most folks would rather park their butt on a Saturday morning in January than in a kayak on Lake Michigan.
Picking night crawlers and kicking dandelions. Not the kind of things typically done outdoors around here in January, but the weather was far from normal last weekend.