Discover how to fish with cane poles and about the different bait types. In this episode, we learn about fishing with cane poles, the basics of different bait types, and safety tips for when fishing ...

Fishing, at the most primitive level, is really quite simple. The fish tugs at the baited hook and the angler lifts the fish out of the water and onto the bank or into the boat.It worked for Tom ...

Young Lake County anglers are fortunate to have a bountiful supply of panfish to chase. With the gear – a cane pole, hook, line and a bobber – the novice can strip on a worm and expect to catch a fish ...

A basic premise in using live bait is presenting it as natural forage. Panfish, bass and catfish will respond to live bait when lures fail. Many anglers caught their first fish using a cane pole, ...

At times, all of us look back in longing to simpler days and simpler ways. Often such thoughts focus on youth and carefree pursuits we enjoyed before coming of age. For many sportsmen, one of the most ...

Fishermen love the next big thing. That’s likely because fishing really hasn’t changed that much over time. It used to be you put food or something a fish thought was food on a hook and tied it to a ...

Daylight was only a pale promise on the horizon as Walker Cline and I pulled away from a dock on Indian Lake in western Ohio. It was completely calm and a heavy haze hung low over the water. Walker ...

TRI-LAKES AREA — To compensate for poorquality, short-range tackle, bass anglers in the 19th and early 20th centuries developed many innovative fishing techniques designed to draw up-close strikes ...

You could use one of those fancy side-scan sonar depth finders with the new underwater fish-eye orthographic readouts. Or you could go cut a switch of bamboo and do a little cane-pole fishing. If you ...

The best smallmouth bass fisherman I've ever known used the simplest of rigs -- a long cane pole outfitted with a length of black nylon line, three or four feet of monofilament, a sinker made from ...

My father was the best fisherman I ever knew. I don't mean with a $25,000 bass boat and a $35,000 SUV that tries to run over you on the freeway. I mean a cane pole and a bucket of minnows in the ...